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Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model
NYT ^ | 07/20/2018 | Matt Apuzzo, Maggie Haberman, Michael S. Schmidt

Posted on 07/20/2018 9:04:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

President Trump’s 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. Cohen’s office. The Justice Department is investigating Mr. Cohen’s 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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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cohen; doj; fakenews; fbi; michaelcohen; michaelcohentapes; molehill; mueller; trump; zaccagnini
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To: ilgipper
-- So we now have no attorney client privilege in this country. This is where we are? --

It all depends on whim.

61 posted on 07/20/2018 9:21:32 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: MNJohnnie

Did you see the filthy video the NYSlimes published?

62 posted on 07/20/2018 9:22:01 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: yesthatjallen

Is it legal to tape someone without their knowledge?

Sleazy FBI, sleazy Cohen.

No offense, but never trust a lawyer.


63 posted on 07/20/2018 9:22:13 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: yesthatjallen

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64 posted on 07/20/2018 9:22:30 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: MAexile

Most likely violated wiretap laws in New York or whatever state they were in.


65 posted on 07/20/2018 9:22:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: thoughtomator

“If we’re 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


66 posted on 07/20/2018 9:22:42 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: yesthatjallen

Why would he tape that. Setup by your own attorney. Sucks to be Donald Trump for sure.


67 posted on 07/20/2018 9:23:20 AM PDT by LouisianaJoanof Arc (#POTUS#Stable#Genius)
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To: rlmorel; cuban leaf
New Jersey and New York are not “Two Party Consent” states for recording.

Please expand on that. Are you talking about criminality, or admissibility, or both?

68 posted on 07/20/2018 9:23:33 AM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


69 posted on 07/20/2018 9:23:38 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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To: yesthatjallen

The MSM is sooooo desperate to find something, anything, they would be oh so easy to troll.


70 posted on 07/20/2018 9:23:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


71 posted on 07/20/2018 9:23:57 AM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: DoughtyOne

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.


72 posted on 07/20/2018 9:23:59 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: yesthatjallen

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.


73 posted on 07/20/2018 9:24:04 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: Mr. K

They keep trying. PT’s 46 percent base is with him no matter what, an it’s growing.


74 posted on 07/20/2018 9:24:11 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy UP!)
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To: yesthatjallen

neverTrump Republicans are hoping once again that THIS TIME Trump will be destroyed.

Because it’s worked so well in the past.


75 posted on 07/20/2018 9:24:37 AM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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To: yesthatjallen

what a pal


76 posted on 07/20/2018 9:24:48 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: yesthatjallen
From the article: What happened to lawyer/client confidentiality?

This is but a bump in the road. Just another molehill out of which the lefties will attempt to build a mountain.

MAGA!

77 posted on 07/20/2018 9:24:55 AM PDT by upchuck (As we head to the midterms, please (re)read Confessions of Congressman X - tinyurl.com/congressmanx)
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To: JoSixChip
You might want to reference the bush bus trip tape. They can and will use it in an impeachment proceeding.

Literally quaking in my Crocs. /S

78 posted on 07/20/2018 9:24:56 AM PDT by Stentor
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To: be-baw
uh oh

The "uh oh" is that the Left is trying to make our government illegitimate.

And they may succeed.

And then the violence starts...

79 posted on 07/20/2018 9:25:19 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: txrefugee

The Left is angry because all of Trumps sex is consensual


80 posted on 07/20/2018 9:25:23 AM PDT by PGR88
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