Posted on 07/21/2018 7:43:10 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Saturday broke his silence about the revelation that his former longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen secretly recorded one of their conversations before the 2016 election dealing with a payment over the story of a former Playboy model's alleged affair with Trump.
"Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) - almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client - totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!" Trump tweeted.
The New York Times had reported Friday that Cohen taped a conversation he had with Trump, then the GOP presidential nominee, in 2016 about paying former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who says she had a yearlong affair with Trump starting in 2006 after he married now-first lady Melania Trump.
The Washington Post later reported that the FBI had seized a tape of Cohen's involving a conversation between Trump and his lawyer in September 2016 on whether to purchase the rights to McDougal's account of her alleged affair with Trump.
In the 90-second audio recording, according to the Post, Cohen can be heard urging Trump to buy the rights to the woman's story after it was purchased by American Media Inc. (AMI), the parent company of the National Enquirer.
AMI had purchased the rights to McDougal's story in August 2016 for $150,000 but never ran a piece. The former model sued the company over the deal earlier this year and reached a settlement in April.
“I think we need to bring this in-house,” Cohen tells Trump in the recording, a source told The Post.
The recording was reportedly seized by federal agents investigating whether Cohen violated bank and campaign finance laws.
Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani confirmed to the newspaper that the recording existed but declined to discuss details and said a payment was never made. He also claimed that nothing in the tape shows that Trump "had any knowledge of it in advance." “Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of [the AMI payment] in advance,” Giuliani told the Post. “In the big scheme of things, it’s powerful exculpatory evidence.”
Well, nothing illegal, which is the important part.
If true Cohen just put himself out of the Lawyer business , who’ll trust him now with secret recordings
Well, if he has to deny it, he must be guilty of something. Impeach!
The goal of Mueller and the rest of the conspirators is to destroy all of Trumps people. His inner circle is truly in danger.
And how do we know Cohen even made these recordings? Maybe the FBI made it and has coerced Cohen into saying it’s his.
Yes, that is what is important.
We didn’t elect him saint.
Clintons lawyers get immunity and Trumps lawyer gets raided.
Two words: Bill Clinton
Two more words: Ted Kennedy
Three letters: JFK
Translation: We don’t care.
Not only have Democrats gotten passes the left has now overplayed their hand in screaming, ‘WOLF!’
OH. The media has been lying. This is not about Trump paying the whore not to release the tape. It’s about a suggestion to buy the rights to a production. Not the same thing at all. F*ck the media.
Why is this leaker, likely on the Weasel Mueller Witch Hunt Team, not being tracked down?
Yes. Even a translator has to tremble in fear now. Will the Mueller goons break into her family home at 4 a.m. and throw relatives’ photos and mementos on the floor and pull clothes out of closets and dressers and toss them on the floor and point weapons in her face? “Where are your notes on what Trump said privately to Putin? Talk!”
To me, the line was crossed with Mueller vs. Manafort.
Mueller is making it difficult for any decent person to work in the White House now. He can’t even defend himself with a lawyer!
As bad as Stalin.
Mueller is a demon.
This sh*t gotta end, this is ticking me off like crazy. All these investigations into anything even remotely connected to Trump, stuff that has absolutely NOTHING to do with Russia collusion, I mean what’s next, the paper boy being investigated?
Meanwhile the CLINTON CRIMINAL CRIME FAMILY IS LEFT COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY ALONE? WHY? WHY? Why is this happening when WE run Washington now? Republicans are the majority, Republican President and THIS crap is going on? A President who did absolutely nothing wrong is harassed day in day out and NOTHING is done to a woman who committed 110 violations of the espionage act? F THIS SH*T!!! ENOUGH ALREADY!
Anyone else recall the story of the raid of Cohen’s office with the agents immediately asking “Where’s the tape?! Where’s the tape?!” when they broke into the attorney’s office? So Cohen tipped them off beforehand, apparently?
Why was Cohen recording his client without his client’s knowledge? Is this why the government raided his office and seized his records? Did the government believe Cohen would try to blackmail the POTUS? Or did Cohen make recordings in order to protect his client? Who knows.
The president is right about the prosecutors and Cohen. Strange stuffs going on.
YAWN.
As bad as Stalin.
Mueller is a demon.
Couldn’t happen without top cover from the GOP. Never forget, never forgive.
Personally, I don’t give a damn about anything any and all RATs say. All Marxist Liberals are corrupt, America-hating, self-loathing, bottom-feeding liars; case closed.
And, I do believe, there are millions upon millions who feel the same way.
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