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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...

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...

An attorney who led Linda Tripp's defense against state charges for secretly recording Monica Lewinsky says President Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, should seek a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller if he illegally recorded Trump. Cohen secretly taped Trump discussing a payment to a Playboy model who alleged an affair, about two months before the 2016 election, the New York Times reported Friday. The date and location of the conversation were not reported, but Cohen is believed to have taped other talks with Trump, possibly in files seized in raids of his office and home in April. Anthony...