Some time in the blur of 2018, this happened.

Late today, top GOP fundraiser, Elliott Proyde, abruptly resigned from the Republican National Committee.

Proyde is a portly man with a wide forehead, a thatch of straw-colored hair, and sometimes a blonde mustache.

He's a California financier and the owner of a security firm.

He's been a player around governments in California, New York, in Washington,

was at the top of Trump's fundraising apparatus.

But chances are, you've never heard of him.

And if you did, you forgot.

The venture capitalist acknowledged paying $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said that he'd gotten her pregnant.

The lawyer who negotiated the payoff, Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal attorney.

Proyde, Cohen.

The story came and went so fast, the name Elliott Proyde barely registered in the cloud of scandal that follows Proyde.

Like dirt around the peanuts character pig pen.

Raids and diamonds, guilty pleas, convictions, sex scandals, influence pedaling.

Other reports have said the fundraiser, Proyde, held out access to Trump as the prize for prospective customers for his private business.

Proyde, the Associated Press reported, had pushed policies,

favored by princes from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates directly to President Trump.

And his security company had signed a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars with the UAE, the Emirates.

Proyde's title at the Republican National Committee was National Deputy Finance Co-Chair.

The same title as this guy.

Who better to make America great again?

Michael Cohen.

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