Correct. However, it is still a campaign finance violation. which is what they are hanging Cohen for now and what they think will be enough to take down Trump. I don't believe it is enough. This was an investigation into Russian collusion to rig an American election and they are throwing the book at two Trump campers in hopes that it will cause an admission of russian collusion. They have nothing on Trump and I am sorry it upsets you so.
Boy oh boy--you don't understand how these investigations work. You get people to flip to give up the good stuff, the best dirt.
You can't think of the Manafort trials as separate--it is one big thing. The first is to nail him as a felon--job done and then the second trial continues to apply pressure so he will cooperate. The angle there is and has always been the Trump Tower meeting. Gravy is just if he helps with Russian, Ukrainian, oligarch knowledge/ties. Just one prong. And for the record he was with the campaign from March 29th to August 19th.
Cohen named in open court the sitting president as a co-conspirator to break the law. If he lied to the court he is looking at maximum jail time and Cohen provides documentation to support the magic word--intent. Cohen also knows about the Trump Tower meeting--or was it meetings plural Guiliani--along with more tape recordings...
I remember when republicans, evangelicals, and conservatives cared about morality with their leaders and impeached not for a crime but to cleanse and maintain the dignity of the office of the presidency. Sad.