Posted on 07/25/2018 2:34:08 PM PDT by Red Badger
Michael Cohen recorded a conversation he had with a reporter this year in which he said he arranged “on my own” a $130,000 payment in 2016 to a former adult-film star who alleged an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
In the nearly two-hour conversation with CNN reporter Chris Cuomo, which the people said appears to have been surreptitiously recorded by Mr. Cohen, the former Trump lawyer discussed at length the payment he arranged in October 2016, a month before the presidential election, to Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels.
“I did it on my own,” Mr. Cohen said of the payment, according to the people familiar with the matter. The conversation took place after The Wall Street Journal in January revealed that Mr. Cohen had arranged the payment to Ms. Clifford.
Mr. Cohen has often appeared on Mr. Cuomo’s CNN show in recent years, and on Tuesday his lawyer gave Mr. Cuomo a widely anticipated audio recording of a conversation Mr. Cohen had with Mr. Trump in 2016 about buying the rights to a former model’s story of an affair with the then-candidate.
The recording is one of a dozen tapes Mr. Cohen kept of conversations referring to matters related to Mr. Trump that federal investigators obtained in an April raid of his premises. The Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office is examining whether Mr. Cohen committed bank fraud or campaign finance violations and is probing the payment to Ms. Clifford. Mr. Cohen has denied wrongdoing and hasn’t been charged with any crimes.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump declined to comment or to share a transcript or copy of the recording of the conversation with Mr. Cuomo. “We can’t comment on a tape that hasn’t been released,” said Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for Mr. Trump.
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He might think he’s saving his own ass, but nobody will touch him with a 10-foot pole after this. He can’t be trusted.
IMHO, it’s a crime if the one paying off is in congress using taxpayer’s money.
Isn’t Chris the one that wants 12yr old girls to see his penis?
https://twitter.com/chriscuomo/status/834745679394246658?lang=en
Why yes. Yes he is.
WHO would EVER hire him as an attorney now??
I will not read that, but is that TRUE?
“Fredo Cuomo”
You sound like a Chris Plante fan.
Christopher C. Cuomo Verified account @ChrisCuomo Christopher C. Cuomo Retweeted PP i wonder if she is the problem or her overprotective and intolerant dad? teach tolerance.
OMG!!! The CUOMOS are SICKOS!!!
There’s no crime here. It was adulterous and he’ll have to answer to Melania.
If they get Trump on this, then Bill Clinton is going to hang!
The people who are going after Trump will let Bill skate just like they did Hillary.
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