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Posted on 05/13/2024 11:31:29 AM PDT by thegagline
Michael Cohen testified Monday he secretly recorded Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2016 election, discussing plans to buy a Playboy model’s story about having an affair with the then-candidate.
Cohen — who worked for Trump for more than a decade — told jurors in Manhattan Court that the Sept. 6, 2016, conversation, taped on the Voice Memos app on his iPhone, was the only time he surreptitiously recorded his former boss.
“So, what do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?” Trump could allegedly be heard saying on the nearly three-minute recording played in court by Assistant District Attorney Susan Hoffinger.
The conversation centered around plans to buy the rights to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal’s story about having an affair with the married Trump from the National Enquirer, according to testimony.
Cohen said the recording was meant to give assurances to then-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker that Trump would reimburse Pecker the $150,000 he paid to McDougal for the exclusive rights to her story — which he never planned to publish.
“It was so I could show it to David Pecker and that way he would hear the conversation, that he would know … Mr. Trump is going to be paying him back,” Cohen said on the stand.
*** Sitting at the defense table in the courtroom, Trump, 77, could be seen smirking and shaking his head at Cohen’s explanation for making the recording without telling him.
*** “What I was doing, I was doing at the direction and for the benefit of Mr. Trump,” he testified.
Cohen told jurors that when he first made the real estate tycoon aware of McDougal’s allegations, Trump didn’t deny that it happened, but merely pointed out how attractive she was.
“His response to me was, ‘She’s really beautiful,'” Cohen said.
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Regarding attorney-client privilege :
I think this testimony came into evidence under the crime fraud exception whereby a party cannot invoke attorney-client privilege where it involves client communications that may have been in furtherance of a fraudulent scheme, an alleged breach of fiduciary duty or an accusation of some other wrongful conduct.
That said, this trial is an affront to justice. “This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.”
Why are they calling him an ‘Ex-Con’?
I thought he will always be a ‘con’ unless his conviction is overturned.................
He is going to wish he was never born!
This is a duplicate post to one just down the forum.
I am wondering if the tape was made for the purpose of blackmail?
The jury has to consider Trump may be the victim of blackmail, or possibly the tape was made for the purpose of influencing one or more presidential elections.
In other words, the tape was made “to deliberately overthrow democracy!!!”
Not guilty.
I agree; it’s BOTH a travesty and a sham, also a mockery.
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