LJL at Trump hiring an attorney who had a practice of recording phone calls with clients.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465378)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465850)

Now blaming media for reporting the story saying “I mean this doesn’t change anything. Nothing illegal! Why are they reporting this??”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465428)

Also, you can get around paywall using archive.is

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465448)

July 20, 2018

BREAKING

The Justice Department is investigating the involvement of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.Jeenah Moon/Reuters

WASHINGTON — 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 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.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, confirmed in a telephone conversation on Friday that Mr. Trump had discussed the payments with Mr. Cohen on the tape but said the payment was ultimately never made. He said the recording was less than two minutes and demonstrated that the president had done nothing wrong.

“Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance,” Mr. Giuliani said, adding that Mr. Trump had directed Mr. Cohen that if he were to make a payment related to the woman, write a check, rather than sending cash, so it could be properly documented.

“In the big scheme of things, it’s powerful exculpatory evidence,” Mr. Giuliani said.

Mr. Cohen’s lawyers discovered the recording as part of their review of the seized materials and shared it with Mr. Trump’s lawyers, according to three people briefed on the matter.

“We have nothing to say on this matter,” Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, said when asked about the tape.

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 to The National Enquirer for $150,000 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.

David J. Pecker, the chairman of The Enquirer’s parent company, is a friend of Mr. Trump’s, and Ms. McDougal has accused Mr. Cohen of secretly taking part in the deal — an allegation that is now part of the F.B.I. investigation.

When The Wall Street Journal revealed the existence of the payment days before the election, Mr. Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said, “We have no knowledge of any of this.” She said Ms. McDougal’s claim of an affair was “totally untrue.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465475)

“Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance. In the big scheme of things, it’s powerful exculpatory evidence,” trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani said.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465487)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465871)

It's Cohen's problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465880)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/trump-michael-cohen-handled-only-a-tiny-tiny-fraction-of-my-legal-work.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36465907)

That statement says nothing about the particular communication in question and whether it was made in the furtherance of providing legal advice (as opposed to business advice).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466824)

Back to the real point though: you're toiling around in a subthread wasteland to obfuscate the fact that the statement you criticized was 100% correct.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36467433)

if trump denies he sought cohen's legal counsel, then atty client priv never attaches, so you don't ever move on to the q of whether ACP was waived because it never existed

jfc xo2017 do you shitheads even practice law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36471017)

Cohen would send Trump a bill for 1.3 hours: "provide strategic business advice; perform interpetive dance re: same"

http://www.bsideblog.com/images/2008/01/NYE/dunce-cap.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36467043)

also trump has even said himself that cohen wasn't really his lawyer anyway but was just a businessman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36471009)

i think that happens all the time and i think that's a HUGE problem, but go after the problem and not just trump.

i'd bet 90% of the big developers who do that in NYC are ardent dem donors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466709)

You telling me youd be either (a) surprised, or (b) that it would change anything about how you view Trump? Gtfo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466743)

BAM! Trump paid money to a foreign entity that he knew would bribe foreign officials to get him a special permit to operate in the country.

BAM! Trump paid union leadership to sabotage a rival company's bid on a project.

BAM! Trump willfully allowed his businesses to be used to funnel ill gotten proceeds in exchange for a cut or for some favorable deal on another project.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466775)

Edit: remember I dont watch Maddow religiously

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466800)

yes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466841)

1) yes I would be surprised, because thats a fucking retarded thing to do. He has no record of criminal activity, so why would I assume he’s a criminal, bc he said pussy?

2) that would be worse than anything ive ever heard of him doing

You are a delusional idiot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466789)

But not because of this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466632)

i love that you libs really think this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36467901)

But in fairness to Trump, regular people (not just freaks like him) lie about shit like this when caught.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36466692)

they'd take it up the ass from satan if it got Roe overturned

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36471025)

Trump now owns the GOP and especially its prole base. They will remain loyal no matter what happens.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4030997&forum_id=2#36532710)