Well...
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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Whatever happened to attorney - client privilege?”
Not only that, whatever became of the fabled DOJ secrecy and attempts to root out leaks to newspapers.
Somebody needs to be indicted for this leak and go to jail.
Awesome.
Hey! That’s the Supreme Court Justice!
LOL!!
“Two months before the election”
How is this relevant or news? Talk about digging the past for dirt, what he did did as a private citizen is his own business.
Trumped (see what I did here?) by FBI theft.
We do NOT have to get Laz’s opinion on THIS!!!
Back in the day; us Seniors would hang around the high school gym and tell lies to one another...
Giuliani says Trump told Cohen that if he did make a payment, to do it by check so it could be documented.
Honey; would you sleep with me for a million bucks?
YES!!!
Well then; would you sleep with me for $5 bucks??
NO!!!
What do you think I am??!!??
We've already decided that; now we're just haggling over the price.
Well...
I was young then and needed the money.
This was before Trump started running for President.
Fake news.
lol
This case is definitely not one of those!
This link should be yanked
They did not pay her
So you are accepting the allegations as true and acting like it is a positive. That's pretty disgusting. Yes, a male would do that - but not a man. Amazing you make those comments after talking about supposedly being against things that are "affronts to God."
Next time vote for Jimmy Carter, there’s a good Christian man there for you, even still teaches Sunday School.
"Gentlemen, affairs of State must take precedence over the...Affairs of State."
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