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Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for porn star Stormy Daniels, said Thursday that President Donald Trump and his then attorney Michael Cohen "conspired to pay off multiple other women" besides Daniels and a Playboy model before Election Day 2016 — and "also were concerned about a pregnancy." "Cohen has evidence and info in his possession and it must be released to the public," Avenatti said in a Twitter post making that claim....

President Trump, referring to his former lawyer Michael Cohen, tweeted the following: "What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad!" Trump is correct. In the field of law, it is not customary for lawyers to surreptitiously record their clients. Law is a highly regulated profession, a profession that is also guided by strict ethics...

Michael Cohen recorded a conversation he had with a reporter this year in which he said he arranged “on my own” a $130,000 payment in 2016 to a former adult-film star who alleged an affair with Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. In the nearly two-hour conversation with CNN reporter Chris Cuomo, which the people said appears to have been surreptitiously recorded by Mr. Cohen, the former Trump lawyer discussed at length the payment he arranged in October 2016, a month before the presidential election, to Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels. “I did it on...