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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

Trump is Straight, Obama is a Faggot. News at 11


41 posted on 07/20/2018 11:15:07 AM PDT by heights
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To: Snickering Hound

He has a lot higher standards than Bill Clinton!


42 posted on 07/20/2018 11:15:35 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: COBOL2Java

The leftist bastards, led by the discredited NYT, have been paying people to say things about Trump. Remember alien james carville saying “Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.”?
How many whores are willing to take money to say something about Trump? After all, they’re whores!
The same NYT deliberately suppressed all stories about BJ’s and Larry Sinclair, and bammy.


43 posted on 07/20/2018 11:16:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's liberal hysterical obsession: Putin)
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To: COBOL2Java

I don’t know about the rest of you but the only feeling that I have on this issue is jealousy!

I too am 70 years old.

BTW what did General Patton say about fighting soldiers and this issue?


44 posted on 07/20/2018 11:16:41 AM PDT by Nip
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To: dfwgator
Politicians are horndogs, always have been, always will be.
Cream: Politician (1968) (Ginger Baker (drums), Eric Clapton (guitar) and Jack Bruce (bass, singer)

[Verse 1]
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Get into my big black car
Hey now, baby
Get into my big black car
I want to just show you
What my politics are

[Verse 2]
I'm a political man
And I practice what I preach
I'm a political man
And I practice what I preach
So don't deny me, baby
Not while you're in my reach

[Verse 3]
I support the left
Though I'm leaning, leaning to the right
I support the left
Though I'm leaning to the right
But I'm just not there
When it's coming to a fight

45 posted on 07/20/2018 11:17:05 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: heights
p11

I'd expect better from a Navy Commander than blackmail...

46 posted on 07/20/2018 11:18:56 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: YourAdHere

If you had a couple of billion dollars laying around she might have slept with you.

I am guessing a couple of burgers and a movie didnt close the deal.


47 posted on 07/20/2018 11:19:10 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: COBOL2Java

A couple million more votes for Trump. What a shame.


48 posted on 07/20/2018 11:20:17 AM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Skywise

The republican has are much hotter than the dem hos.


49 posted on 07/20/2018 11:20:58 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian

has=hos


50 posted on 07/20/2018 11:21:17 AM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: COBOL2Java

These jack@sses in the MSM still think POTUS is your typical paid off phony politician.Everyone knows his life as it has been fodder for the magazines and papers for decades.Oh what a scandal!!!Hahaha.


51 posted on 07/20/2018 11:26:11 AM PDT by Lent
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To: COBOL2Java

Who cares?


52 posted on 07/20/2018 11:26:37 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: COBOL2Java

So?


53 posted on 07/20/2018 11:27:56 AM PDT by OKSooner (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): The 1200 pound gorilla that's going to kill football.)
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To: Snickering Hound

NOT GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


54 posted on 07/20/2018 11:29:02 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: COBOL2Java

The Deep state is trying to separate Melania from her husband, and the Deplorables from President Trump.

F’em.

5.56mm


55 posted on 07/20/2018 11:30:00 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: COBOL2Java
The First President to Have Affairs!
56 posted on 07/20/2018 11:30:05 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Snickering Hound

I am such a woman. I look at her picture and my first thought: I love her eyelashes! (Maybe the Pres was not thinking, wonder where she gets her eyelashes done)


57 posted on 07/20/2018 11:31:36 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: COBOL2Java

It has been noted here in Freerepublic and in other magazines, that very rich men have these kind of leeches show up, meet them and then threaten to tell the media they had an affair. It is actually cheaper for the wealthy individual to pay a small amount rather than litigate.

So we do not really know if Trump actually did have an affair with her.


58 posted on 07/20/2018 11:31:55 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: dfwgator

Would Carter have been a better president if he had maybe let go with a couple models?


59 posted on 07/20/2018 11:33:33 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: COBOL2Java

Why doesn’t this ever happen to me?


60 posted on 07/20/2018 11:33:50 AM PDT by Eddie01
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