FBI leak:Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model

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 conversation with Mr. Trump about those payments would be of keen interest to them.

The recording’s existence appears to undercut the Trump campaign’s denial of any knowledge of payments to the model. It further draws Mr. Trump into questions about tactics he and his associates used to keep aspects of his personal and business life a secret. And it highlights the potential legal and political danger that Mr. Cohen represents to Mr. Trump. Once the keeper of many of Mr. Trump’s secrets, Mr. Cohen is now seen as increasingly willing to consider cooperating with prosecutors.

The former model, Karen McDougal, says she began a nearly yearlong affair with Mr. Trump in 2006, shortly after Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, gave birth to their son, Barron. Ms. McDougal sold her story for $150,000 to The National Enquirer, which was supportive of Mr. Trump, during the final months of the presidential campaign, but the tabloid sat on the story, which kept it from becoming public. The practice, known as “catch and kill,” effectively silenced Ms. McDougal for the remainder of the campaign.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, confirmed in a telephone conversation on Friday that Mr. Trump had discussed payments to Ms. McDougal with Mr. Cohen in person on the recording. He said that it was less than two minutes long and that Mr. Trump did not know he was being recorded, and he claimed that the president had done nothing wrong.

“Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance,” Mr. Giuliani said. The recording cuts off, according to three people familiar with it, and it is not clear how the discussion ended.

nytimes.com/2018/07/20/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-tape.html

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>he claimed that the president had done nothing wrong.

The evangelists have Jerusalem, so no further need of trump

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Big boi trump living the big life

So Trump breaks the law, then his lawyer breaks the law, then the FBI breaks the law, then the media breaks the law…yet somehow people are still pointing fingers at individuals.

say it right,

also attorney client privilege can not be used in any court of law period so…….

Attorney-client privilege has limits: It applies only to communications made in confidence between an attorney and client in which legal advice is sought or provided. If any of these elements is missing, the privilege vanishes. Attorneys — and recently, The New York Times — often get this wrong, asserting that the mere "confidential" nature of a communication between an attorney and client privileges the communication. This is not the case. The primary purpose of the communication must be to obtain or provide legal advice. So, as radio host Sean Hannity discovered Monday, even if a client's identity is intended to be "confidential," it is protected by the attorney-client privilege only in the rare circumstances under which revealing the identity is tantamount to revealing the legal advice sought.

So, you're incorrect. Only if Trump was a specifically asking legal advice would this communication be privileged… But if they were simply discussing the logistics of payment for hush money, that would not be requesting legal advice, and that would negate any possible attorney-client privilege

It's highly unlikely that Trump was technically asking Cohen for specific legal advice, and much more likely that Trump was just being filled in on details about payment of hush money, which would preclude them from being shielded by jurisprudence

How does it feel to get bitched slapped by Johnny Neptune?

The reason I asked how it felt to get bitchslapped by me is because obviously you are an intelligent fellow… You're not stupid… You're obviously educated… You're young, brilliant, well educated, with a good head on your shoulders…..

However I am old, not particularly smart, an eighth grade dropout, and a complete piece of shit…. I'm a worthless scumbag, a former drug addict, a pervert, and a complete fucking loser…

But I basically bitchslapped you so hard, that you could shit out your toenails…. And I was just wondering how it felt to have an old piece of shit like me put you in your place…

What a fucking loser when can we impeach this fuck…………?