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NY Times: Trump was recorded talking of paying Playboy model
WTOP News [Washington DC] ^ | July 20, 2018 12:49 pm | AP

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy; davidpecker; hopehicks; itsjustsex; karenmcdougal; nationalenquirer; personaldestruction; rudygiuliani; tabloidjournalism; thisisthebigone; zaccagnini
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1 posted on 07/20/2018 10:36:41 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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To: COBOL2Java

Whatever happened to attorney - client privilege?


2 posted on 07/20/2018 10:39:27 AM PDT by Timmy
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To: COBOL2Java

I wish the NYT had shown as much interest in Obama getting boinked by Reggie Love and Larry Sinclair.


3 posted on 07/20/2018 10:39:41 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: COBOL2Java

So now being a Victim of Blackmail is the crime. BIZARRO WORLD.


4 posted on 07/20/2018 10:40:24 AM PDT by heights
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To: COBOL2Java
p11
5 posted on 07/20/2018 10:42:35 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: heights

Quite a change from when the democrats went nuts defending the right to privacy in the Congressional hearing about Strzoks texts


6 posted on 07/20/2018 10:43:13 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: COBOL2Java; All
I would like to propose a NEW free republic rule -- You can't mention Karen McDougal without posting a picture...


7 posted on 07/20/2018 10:43:15 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: COBOL2Java

K. So?

I’d pay her too.


8 posted on 07/20/2018 10:44:17 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: COBOL2Java

Related...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3672492/posts


9 posted on 07/20/2018 10:44:51 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Free Republic Needs Your Monthly Donations!!!)
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To: COBOL2Java

The NY Times is drowning.

Too bad there is no one willing to rescue them.


10 posted on 07/20/2018 10:46:10 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: COBOL2Java

MudSlinging 101


12 posted on 07/20/2018 10:49:00 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs)
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13 posted on 07/20/2018 10:50:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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This will separate his supporters from Trump, leading to his impeachment, probably even BEFORE this falls election.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA


14 posted on 07/20/2018 10:52:57 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Our president loves beautiful women. Grounds for impeachment in my opinion! LOL!


15 posted on 07/20/2018 10:53:00 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Snickering Hound

Hubba hubba . I’ll be back in a few minutes. Something just came up.


16 posted on 07/20/2018 10:53:17 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah, did a search, should have looked harder...


17 posted on 07/20/2018 10:54:52 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: COBOL2Java

Released at precisely the time Lisa Page is singing like a canary.


18 posted on 07/20/2018 10:55:04 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: COBOL2Java

President Trump has good taste in women.


19 posted on 07/20/2018 10:55:21 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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He didn’t rape her.

He didn’t use campaign funds.

I don’t care.

OMG HE HAD CONSENSUAL SEX WITH PLAYBOY MODEL — BeFORE — he ran for president.

What’s the issue here? That he’s not an example of a Christian man?

Those who lead christianity are supporting gay marriage and transgenderism which are affronts to God. Trump being a typical warm blooded male is doing what any red blooded heterosexual male would do. Is he an adulterer? Yes. But it’s not a crime in the US!

Unlike Clinton who had sex with his employee which is unabashed sexual harassment even if consensual! (But still not a crime)


20 posted on 07/20/2018 10:55:36 AM PDT by Skywise
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