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NY Times: Trump was recorded talking of paying Playboy model
WTOP News [Washington DC] ^ | July 20, 2018 12:49 pm | AP

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clintonlegacy; davidpecker; hopehicks; itsjustsex; karenmcdougal; nationalenquirer; personaldestruction; rudygiuliani; tabloidjournalism; thisisthebigone; zaccagnini
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To: COBOL2Java

BREAKING NEWS. Trump has good taste in women.

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21 posted on 07/20/2018 10:56:32 AM PDT by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: COBOL2Java

So What?!?!?


22 posted on 07/20/2018 10:57:01 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: prairiebreeze

Exactly! Every time bad news is about to hit the Deep State they pull one of these allegations out of their hats!


23 posted on 07/20/2018 10:57:08 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: dowcaet

I’m tellin ya - Clinton’s only problem was that the women he slept with weren’t good looking!


24 posted on 07/20/2018 10:57:15 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Snickering Hound

Ol Slick is jealous.


25 posted on 07/20/2018 10:57:49 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Skywise
I’m tellin ya - Clinton’s only problem was that the women he slept with weren’t good looking!

He was no JFK in that department, that's for sure.

26 posted on 07/20/2018 10:58:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: COBOL2Java

SO WHAT?


27 posted on 07/20/2018 10:58:37 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Skywise

“”””Unlike Clinton who had sex with his employee which is unabashed sexual harassment even if consensual! (But still not a crime)”””””””

Paula Jones was an employee. She didn’t think it was consensual. Hillary had to write her a check for 800K..


28 posted on 07/20/2018 11:00:08 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: richardtavor

Politicians are horndogs, always have been, always will be.

Frankly, Bill Clinton’s sexual proclivities never bothered me all that much, there were many other things that did that I didn’t like. I joked about them more than anything.


29 posted on 07/20/2018 11:01:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: heights

I think we all assume he did it because...looking at her...we would.

I’m not sure that’s applicable, however we do know that she blackmailed him. Given her means of making money in general, it’s hard to believe straight out blackmail is beneath her.

(Given we can all - guys anyway - imagine her beneath us.)


30 posted on 07/20/2018 11:01:45 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: COBOL2Java

Heh, talk to me about Trump after exposing all the follies by JFK and his slimy brothers.
Oh, and rapist boy Clinton and his defending felon wife.
No dead women by Trump yet.
Get to it, MSM.
Oh, forgot, we’re not talkin’ the epitome of honesty, morality, and intelligence when we’re talkin’ the press.


31 posted on 07/20/2018 11:02:00 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: shelterguy

No no... see if that had been real the NYT would’ve reported it!

I was talking about Monica though.


32 posted on 07/20/2018 11:02:32 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: COBOL2Java

I don’t care. Just drain the swamp, baby.


33 posted on 07/20/2018 11:03:18 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: COBOL2Java

Just gonna throw out that I met Karen McDougal at the Chiller Theatre convention in Parsippany, NJ back in 2015.


34 posted on 07/20/2018 11:05:44 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Hillary 2020!)
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To: dfwgator

Rape accusations aside - I didn’t care either. My problem was him doing an intern which (as all feminists were screaming until just before that point) is sexual harassment regardless of consent.

I wanted - and still want - Clinton held to the same rules the progressives impose on everyone else. But they’ve not only doubled down they’ve expanded their hypocrisy to all walks of life.


35 posted on 07/20/2018 11:06:11 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

I know. It’s just a quirk I have. The entire media establishment ignores Paula Jones and ALWAYS says that what Slick did was just a thing between consenting adults. They were able to successfully change the narrative and make Slick out to be the victim. Weird how that works, ain’t it?


36 posted on 07/20/2018 11:06:47 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: COBOL2Java

So many in the legal system silent as attorney client privilege is murdered right in front of our eyes.


37 posted on 07/20/2018 11:07:03 AM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: COBOL2Java

You want a President whose only sex scandal was admitting he sometimes had lust in his heart? Well we tried that, and it didn’t work out.


38 posted on 07/20/2018 11:07:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Timmy
Whatever happened to compartmentalization, it's just about sex, it doesn't affect his ability to do the job?

-PJ

39 posted on 07/20/2018 11:08:27 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I would have to consider paying her after looking at that picture!


40 posted on 07/20/2018 11:14:32 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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