Posted on 07/20/2018 10:36:41 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer secretly recorded Trump discussing payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with him.
The president’s current personal lawyer confirmed the conversation and said it showed Trump did nothing wrong, The New York Times reported Friday. ABC News and The Washington Post confirmed the report as well.
Citing lawyers and others familiar with the recording, The Times said attorney Michael Cohen made the recording two months before Trump’s 2016 election. The newspaper said the FBI seized the recording during an April raid on Cohen’s office amid an investigation into his business dealings.
People familiar with the investigation have told The Associated Press that the raid sought, among other things, any information on payments made in 2016 to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had an affair with Trump in 2006. He denies it.
The Wall Street Journal revealed, days before the election, that the National Enquirer — run by Trump supporter David Pecker — had paid $150,000 to silence McDougal. At the time, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said, “We have no knowledge of any of this.”
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani told the Times the Republican president did discuss the payments to McDougal with Cohen on the less than two-minute-long recording, but that the payment was never made.
Giuliani says Trump told Cohen that if he did make a payment, to do it by check so it could be documented.
“Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance,” Giuliani told the newspaper. “In the big scheme of things, it’s powerful exculpatory evidence.”
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1> Trump has never claimed to be a leadership or a role-model for Christianity. Unlike clergy and priests which are happily accepting homosexuality, gay marriage AND ADULTERY and trying to get it instilled as God’s word. That’s an affront to God.
2> God wants us to procreate, it’s right there in the Bible and when that order came down a man could have multiple wives. What Trump does on his own personal time (and when not in the office of the Presidency of the US) is just that. God will determine if he’s evil or not.
Lastly - maybe you should look up judgementalism in the Bible - as a Christian man you’d do well to take the board out of your face than complain about the specks in someone’s eye.
Let me get this straight.
Private Citizen Donald Trump MAY or MAY NOT have paid off a Woman who was Blackmailing him about a Sexual Affair to cause him Political damage.
Meanwhile, POTUS (Mr. Flexible) Obama authorized a secret payment of $400 Million Dollars, well, everything except American Currency to Iran to release American Prisoners.
Which one caused a Media firestorm again?
It don't read that way...
2And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Besides; Adam didn't wanna give up any more ribs!
The Junior Admin Moderator from the Peanut Gallery has spoken!
Oh look! Nobody listened to you!
You put up an NYT ARTICLE BASHING TRUMP WITH A HEADLINE THAT IS A COMPLETE LIE
They did not pay McDougal
And you’re butthurt with me for pointing that out to the mod?
Who’s team are you on?
Ours or the New York Times?
LOL!
We really, really, really, really don't care.
Just How Far Will the Left Go?
American Greatness ^ | 7-23-2018 | Victor Davis Hanson
Hanson’s great summary of the Democrats since Trump won the election and became President Trump!
https://amgreatness.com/2018/07/23/democrats-betray-their-leadership-in-the-name-of-socialism/
In other news, The Beatles were a popular band.
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