I hate to be a downer about this, but here's the biggest problem with the Stormy payment...it worked.
Regardless of what happens now, even if it brings Trump down, it still worked. There will still not be President Clinton, the courts will still be screwed for at least a generation, the environment and planet will still be in worse shape.
The best we are going to end up with is President Pence, and that doesn't really help things much.
The “better to apologize later than ask now” concept worked.