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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Just how retarded is THAT?
I always thought his name was Fredo
Fredo Cuomo
Cohen should be disbarred!
Chris?.....Not as retarded as Andrew............
He may be, but who would want him as their lawyer now anyways?................
I listened to the tape several times. Whatever CNN is carrying on about was NOT evident, clear and indeed garbled; not to mention Leftist Edited to preclude context and reality.
CNN wants you to accept their political reality not what is actually real.
But it exonerates Trump. I think Cohen got caught with these tapes in the raid, and they destroy his credibility as a witness against Trump. The tapes were being leaked because at that point Cohen knew that Trump knew about the recordings and would be angry. Trump’s lawyer was involved in the court case to determine what was privileged. So Cohen is using Lanny Davis to cover up as well as possible once this came out.
he says on the tape that he paid ‘stormy” ON HIS OWN..Trump didnt lie...another swing and a miss...
Right. Neither the Left or Right (nor center) will hire a lawyer who is not trust worthy!
Buying someone’s silence in a matter is not a crime unless the matter itself was a crime.
If two consenting adults have some sort of a fling, and one of them, who is a well known public figure, makes a payment to the other one in return for the other’s pledge to keep silent about the matter, is that a crime? No it is not a crime.
Neither is it a crime to pay a journalist or a publication to keep silent on such a matter either. There is no “criminal” bribe in it.
So why the case? To get to Cohen’s tapes, in a fishing expedition for anything that could be turned over to Mueller.
If by retarded you mean that he talked with Cuomo then I agree. If by you mean that recording it was retarded I beg to differ. Fake news edits interviews to present what they want to portray and having your own recording can negate any false editing.
Just imagine if the MSM had been THIS INTERESTED IN BILL CLINTON’S AFFAIRS..............AND HE WAS ACCUSED OF RAPE!!!!!!!............
I’m no lawyer, but isn’t there supposed to be attorney client privilege? How is this not an extreme CRIMINAL abuse by both the attorney and the complicit folks promoting the story?
This has huge ramifications. Can I actually trust my attorney?? Can he just privately tape my conversations and sell it to the media?
Holly cow...
Just how retarded is THAT?
What I was thinking - who would voluntarily talk with Cuomo for TWO HOURS! I'd rather be water-boarded....
thats what i’m reading...
He's destroyed his career in one fell swoop.
Actually, this is getting fun. I’m starting to wonder if the press is being played by Trump.
He flipped on Trump to save his own ass. This is how they Get Trump. There are 12 tapes, there will be something on at least one of them. I wonder of the FISA Warrant could get thrown out if all this would go away?
...was NOT evident...
My take too.
I heard NO mention of any Playboy Model or anything else that would suggest that this was any kind of pay off or hush money negotiation.
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