President Trump’s personal attorney Michael D. Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, according to three people familiar with his practice, and allies of the president are worried that the recordings were seized by federal investigators in a raid of Cohen’s office and residences this week.
Cohen, who served for a decade as a lawyer at the Trump Organization and is a close confidant of Trump, was known to store the conversations using digital files and then replay them for colleagues, according to people who have interacted with him.
“We heard he had some proclivity to make tapes,” said one Trump adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. “Now we are wondering, who did he tape? Did he store those someplace where they were actually seized? . . . Did they find his recordings?”
Cohen did not respond to requests for comment. Stephen Ryan, an attorney for Cohen, declined to comment. A White House spokeswoman referred a request for comment to Cohen and his attorney.
HOLY.....SHIT!!!
Now this may turn out to be nothing, many things do.
But HOLY SHIT!!!!
If in fact Cohen taped conversations he had with Trump, with Stormy Daniels' former attorney, with other women that he has paid off in the past, and those recordings are now in the possession of Robert Mueller, that raid of Cohen's office and home may prove to be the most devastating thing that has happened to Donald Trump yet.
Have I said HOLY SHIT yet?
Which may be why Trump is no longer interested in voluntarily sitting down to talk with Robert Mueller.
Courtesy of NBC News:
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office and President Donald Trump’s legal team are now proceeding with strategies that presume a presidential interview will likely not take place as part of the Russia investigation, after months of talks between the two sides collapsed earlier this week, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
On Monday Trump’s lawyers were discussing a possible interview with Mueller's team and had begun to hash out the final sticking points, including the timing, scope and length, according to people familiar with the discussions. One person familiar with the strategy said the president’s lawyers had sought over the weekend to expand his legal team to include individuals who would prepare him for an interview. Another person familiar with the matter, however, said preparations had not yet gone that far.
But the prospects for a presidential interview drastically dimmed once the FBI raided the home, office and hotel room of Trump’s long-time personal lawyer, Michael Cohen on Monday, these people said. The president criticized the raid as out of bounds in Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with Trump aides.
Yeah I think the only thing that Donald Trump wants to do right now, is to flee the country.A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 10, 2018
Sadly he is now the most famous man in the world, so there ain't nowhere for him to go.
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W$J:"The contract states that she had the right to seek child support payments if she chose to carry out the pregnancy, although she ultimately decided to have an abortion.
ReplyDeleteThe WSJ’s sources say that the former Playboy model is set to be paid $1.6 million over a two-year period, and that the first payment was supposed to have been made this past December.:"
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trumps-lawyer-cohen-arranged-1-6-million-payout-playmate-affair-top-gop-donor-led-abortion/
All of a sudden one of the heads of the Go Pee says its the womans right to choose, you can't make this crap up for "Our cartoon president".
DeleteSHARKNADO! Sarah Jones>
ReplyDeletehttps://newrepublic.com/minutes/146671/donald-trump-crippling-fear-sharks
"We don’t need a Russian pee tape! The only assist Donald Trump and his wandering dick need to bring down this presidency is from the country’s most ridiculous, strip-mall lawyer. God Bless America!
"The last thing he wants to do is sit down for a deposition where Michael Avenatti asks him 15 different ways, “Did you pay off any other women?” Because he can either answer and incriminate himself, or plead the Fifth and allow the court to infer that the answer would have been, “Hell, yeah! We had a big old slush fund, and we doled out cash to 17 blondes, 9 brunettes, and one ginger.”
Read more at https://wonkette.com/632520/whats-it-called-when-circling-shark-robert-mueller-combines-with-stormy-daniels-tornado#XIjHkkjW7MtSLXot.99
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/michael-cohen-interview-donald-trump
Trump has warranted being impeached! He does not represent me and never will. He's as evil as they come and shows us that every day.
ReplyDeleteCohen clients under the microscope: Broidy....isn't just a "top donor" to republicans, he's the head of finance at the Repub National Committee ...."Michael Cohen arranged for a $1.6 million hush payout to a former Playboy model on behalf of Elliott Broidy, a top donor to the Republican Party who had impregnated her last year." According to the non-disclosure agreement described by the WSJ’s sources, the woman says that the 60-year-old Broidy paid her money in exchange for an exclusive sexual relationship that lasted more than a year. The contract states that she had the right to seek child support payments but had an abortion he agreed to. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-negotiated-1-6-million-settlement-for-top-republican-fundraiser-1523638726
ReplyDeleteOnce a search warrant is issued anything underneath that search warrant can be investigated.
DeleteCan Mueller subpoena Trump? 9 answers
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vox.com/2018/3/15/16997474/mueller-subpoena-trump-organization-probe-russia
"The Post said it was unclear if Cohen had taped any conversations with Trump. But a source said it was Cohen’s “standard practice” to play recordings for the president that he’d made of other top advisers. New York is a one-party consent state, meaning Cohen could legally record any phone conversation without the other person’s knowledge."
ReplyDeleteHmm. Cohen played for Trump recordings he made of others? Wouldn't that violate attorney/client privilege?
"Attorney-client protections do not apply to conversations that further a crime or act of fraud, Reuters notes."
Ah. Well, then. Never mind.
Why are you even upset? This is what you "bern it to the ground" folks all voted for.
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ReplyDelete"Federal prosecutors said in a court filing Friday that the criminal probe that led them to raid the offices of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is focused on the attorney's "personal business dealings" and has been going on for months.
In the filing with a court in New York, prosecutors blacked out a section describing what laws they believe Cohen has broken, but they said the "crimes being investigated involve acts of concealment" and suspected fraud."
Ooooo. For MONTHS.
"FBI and Justice Department officials have refused to say what crimes they are investigating, but people familiar with the investigation have told The Associated Press the search warrant used in the raids sought bank records, business records on Cohen's dealing in the taxi industry, Cohen's communications with the Trump campaign and information on payments made to a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, and a porn actress, Stephanie Clifford, who performs under the name Stormy Daniels. Both women say they had affairs with Trump."
"Clifford's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, was in the audience for the court session and asked the judge to be heard at 2 p.m.
"We have every reason to believe that some of the documents seized relate to my client," he said."
Then there is the $1.6 million to the Playmate Broidy impregnated.
I guess McDougal and Clifford should have gotten pregnant. Seems you get a bigger payoff if you do. Either that or Trump is just a fucking cheapskate. Could be Cohen low balled them since he was paying out of his own pocket and he knew he'd never get reimbursed from Trump.
A female contributor mentioned earlier this week that every lawyer has CYA. If I understood correctly lawyers have information just in case a client throws them under the bus or tries to drag them down with them. That sounds prudent. Recordings saved could serve the same purpose.
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