The 30 whatever charges were basically just writing realistically two or three charges a bunch of different ways.
The reason why I think it's a sham is because to the average observer it would seem he did something very very wrong 30 something charges wrong. It's written for effect which is sad and pathetic for a functioning democracy to be doing this.
Also there's no evidence Trump directed Cohen and realistically he's relying on a legal expert to do things in a way that's above board. Be like you using a real estate agent to buy your house then getting charged for fraud afterward because they didn't do something right with your transaction. Any honest person would see that as unreasonable but most people don't even know what he's being charged for.
They see he banged a porn star, think it's repugnant then excuse this nonsense because they have no idea what's even happening