Michael Cohen Secretly Taped Trump Discussing Payment to Playboy Model
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July 20, 2018 - 12:53 PM EDT
Giuliani: Cohen tape is 'powerful exculpatory evidence'
BY JACQUELINE THOMSEN
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President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said Friday that a tape of Trump and his then-personal lawyer Michael Cohen discussing a payment to a former Playboy model will exonerate Trump.
"Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance," Giuliani told The New York Times of the taped conversation about the payment.
"In the big scheme of things, it's powerful exculpatory evidence," he added.
The tape, reportedly seized by the FBI during a raid of Cohen's office earlier this year, features a conversation between Trump and Cohen two months before the 2016 election about making a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who alleges she had an affair with Trump, according to The New York Times.
Cohen is reportedly under federal investigation over payments he made to women alleging affairs with Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
Giuliani told the Times that the payment was never made to McDougal, and that the recording lasted less than two minutes.
Cohen's legal team said the tape would not hurt their client.
"Obviously, there is an ongoing investigation, and we are sensitive to that," Cohen's lawyer, Lanny Davis, said in a statement. "But suffice it to say that when the recording is heard, it will not hurt Mr. Cohen. Any attempt at spin can not change what is on the tape."
And when it goes to trial, any evidence secured under false pretenses will render that evidence inadmissible in court! Game over! So, what has any supposed affairs have anything to do with the Russia investigation? They are just throwing everything out there hoping something sticks? In the process, wasting tens of millions of dollars so far and liberals do not care about the monies wasted! See, if liberals do not pay for it, they do not care! Once, it comes out of their wallets, they are mad as hell! They are stupid to think this witch-hunt will not come out of their pockets as well!
Gotta love ET lawyers who think they know more than career DOJ Attorneys
Im sure you weren't complaining about money when millions were being wasted on
Benhgazi or all the money paid for Secret Service and travel for Trump and his adult children.Of course its nothing compared to what Trump is doing to the debt and deficet.
So, the indictment of Trump for obstruction did not work out.
For Tony from your 'favorite' president with love from Russia. Lol
Trumps seems worried about those tapes.Reminds me of another president who was worried about some tapes
As dumb as Cohen is I give him credit for having the sense to record coconversations with trump.I can't wait for these tapes to leak.
The basic problem you guys in the left have, and Mueller, is that there is a possibility that Trump, unlike most politicians, might not believe in corruption in principal. So everything they try to 'discover' would normally hit people around him that did things wrong that had nothing to do with Trump or the extremely famous 'Russian collusion' narrative.Trumps seems worried about those tapes.Reminds me of another president who was worried about some tapes
His tweet states "did nothing wrong". Perhaps that is why they (Trump and Sessions) are letting the chips fall where they may...
I know, tough to digest, but Trump just might the exception in political landscapes full of corruption...
