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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Remember Linda Tripp was vilified for this.
I love DJT but he has surrounded himself with way too many disloyal sketchballs - Reince, Kelly, Pence, Coats, McMaster, Tillerson, Cohen, Sessions, Rosenstein, Wray and so many others.
CNN, MSN, et al are having their usual orgasms over nothing.
I can’t imagine how much fun life is going to be for the opposition, if they succeed in removing this President. /s
In some states, this is illegal.
“...Another snake. Now I dont feel sorry for MC anymore....”
Agree, but well, he is a lawyer...nuff said.
I suspect they made MC “an offer he couldn’t refuse”.
However, there should be one helluva law suit over this regarding attorney/client privilege.
Trump talking to his lawyer about entering into a legal agreement with someone. How could that no fall under privileged?
Yes, it's highly unethical. We are talking attorneys here so ethics are a pretty low bar, but it's even beneath that one.
I think they’re hoping Congress will impeach based on this ill-gotten evidence, even if it’s inadmissible in court.
Article also says it was a short conversation, Trump knew nothing about it. No smoking gun...just another fake news story by the failing NYT.
With a fake quote from Giuliani acknowledging that the conversation took place?
Lanny Davis leaked this. Rudi confirmed this. Apparently the tape is exculpatory for Trump.
What happened to attorney client privilege?
They will try to maintain that yes the agreement was legal, except for the part that violated campaign finance law. They will try to get Congress to seize on a technicality.
I still don’t get how the FBI can raid the office of a lawyer to dig for dirt on someone that lawyer represents. How is that any better than anything they pretend to hate Putin for??
Kennedy and the Sinkmaster were two cads who did the deed in the whitehouse.
Trump was a world class player prior to his candidacy. What’s the big deal?
There are so many people that would gladly take a bullet for this President, figuratively speaking, and yet he lets the swamp guys advise him to appoint other swamp guys who are working overtime to position him so the bullet (figuratively speaking) will get him. I don't get it.
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