Making the Cryptic Political

This past Saturday, I was a little surprised to see the following clue in Fraser Simpson’s Globe and Mail puzzle:
 
Escort enters sound bargain with the prosecutor (4, 4)
 
I stared at it and wondered: could it be it anything but a reference to President Trump’s alleged affair with the porn star Stormy Daniels and the $130,000 his lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid her not to disclose it?

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