Posted on 07/20/2018 9:04:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trumps longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording.
The F.B.I. seized the recording this year during a raid on Mr. Cohens office. The Justice Department is investigating Mr. Cohens involvement in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election. Prosecutors want to know whether that violated federal campaign finance laws, and any conversation with Mr. Trump about those payments would be of keen interest to them.
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It all depends on whim.
Did you see the filthy video the NYSlimes published?
Is it legal to tape someone without their knowledge?
Sleazy FBI, sleazy Cohen.
No offense, but never trust a lawyer.
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Most likely violated wiretap laws in New York or whatever state they were in.
If were doing away with attorney-client privilege to this extent, then there should be no barrier to a full-scale raid and seizure of all materials from Perkins Coie.
Brilliant observation
Why would he tape that. Setup by your own attorney. Sucks to be Donald Trump for sure.
Not about to give the NYT a click, thank you for your sacrifice in doing so. Standard disinfectant protocols apply, be sure to scrub vigorously.
Don’t believe it’s a secret that Stormy Daniels was paid something (which doesn’t necessarily suggest anything more than wanting a nuisance to go away). Perhaps President Trump’s lawyer was giving an update on various litigation? Really don’t know, or care.
I’d argue that more important issue here is Mueller. Is this what our Republic has become? That a political operative can be installed with an army of lawyers and investigators to find ANY reason to harrass and threaten a duly elected President?
Mueller has accomplished nothing of value. No eeeevil Russians were found working out of Trump tower. No evidence of a secret alliance with Boris and Natasha to somehow swing millions of voters away from Felonia.
Were there Russians hacking into our systems? Yep. Are we doing the same to them? Hope so. Did Russia’s efforts make any material difference. NO.
This has to end. If the President Trump intends to fire Mueller after the November elections, fine. I’d rather he just do it NOW.
The MSM is sooooo desperate to find something, anything, they would be oh so easy to troll.
Wait, PlayboyGate?
Well, at least we know there’s going to be even more high quality here than Stormy.
More of the same old I could care less about but you know the Mueller Impeachers desperately want to get something on the record to show there’s an under oath lie.
Doubt very highly they will get that from POTUS. So they can all shove off.
Criminal Mueller and his team of Hillary-bot law licenses would also be in jeopardy leaking this. Trump should and would go after all of them.
I was wondering when the Stormy story would come back.
They found out in polls that the public doesn’t consider Russia a problem so they had to recycle something else to cause outrage.
They keep trying. PT’s 46 percent base is with him no matter what, an it’s growing.
neverTrump Republicans are hoping once again that THIS TIME Trump will be destroyed.
Because it’s worked so well in the past.
what a pal
Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance, Mr. Giuliani said, adding that Mr. Trump had directed Mr. Cohen that if he were to make a payment related to the woman, write a check, rather than sending cash, so it could be properly documented.
This is but a bump in the road. Just another molehill out of which the lefties will attempt to build a mountain.
MAGA!
Literally quaking in my Crocs. /S
The "uh oh" is that the Left is trying to make our government illegitimate.
And they may succeed.
And then the violence starts...
The Left is angry because all of Trumps sex is consensual
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