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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....


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



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Just the kind of lawyer one wants representing them!

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Should have put it in a storage unit or something, I can see the reason for wanting a record of these things.
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Ruh roh..... I have a sudden sense of a disturbance in the force and an impending event wherein le dense matter impacts with le whirling blades.

But... then again....

it IS the New York Slimes. 
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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.”
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I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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And apparently by commenting, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has waved attorney-client privilege.  The clown-show continues. 

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Just the kind of lawyer one wants representing them!

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Should have put it in a storage unit or something, I can see the reason for wanting a record of these things.
FWIW in California, it is not legal to record, without consent.

In the morning, my wife notes the networks are already under waywith their daily smear coverage of Trump.

And I can plan for the same here, thanks to " social media advisor" curated feed, to please the #nevertrumper audience.

Today, This is the rilly big one!! Gonna bring him down. Jeff Flake, James Comey all suited up in heir Peacock Feathers,and strutting around.  A little soft Boosch fambly tune, playing in the background, in memory of their Hillary votes by (GHW, Babs bless her recently departed soul. Probbly low energy Jeb and his Familia).

If the dems/media and #nevertrumps can't brink him down, they can weaken him enough to block his agenda.

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Still consenting adults if this is so...so, it's not something to get to bent out of shape about. I don't like it but did something illegal occur?

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Still consenting adults if this is so...so, it's not something to get to bent out of shape about.

No.  You people don't give a shit about oaths or vows as long as it's your political prince violating them.
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No.  You people don't give a shit about oaths or vows as long as it's your political prince violating them.


That aside, one of Trump's mantras is how the media is the 'enemy of the people.'  Well, in this case, you have a media entity that blew the lid off the Edwards affair, but engaged in 'catch and kill' to protect Trump.  The recording itself may not mean anything, legally, but the arrangement just might.
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No.  You people don't give a shit about oaths or vows as long as it's your political prince violating them.

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Giuliani: Cohen tape is 'powerful exculpatory evidence'
By Jacqueline Thomsen - 07/20/18 12:53 PM EDT

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.

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 attorney, Lanny Davis, declined to comment to The Times.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/398070-giuliani-cohen-tape-is-powerful-exculpatory-evidence
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More nothing burgers. 

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I believe voters have already made a determination about the young lothario Trump and have decided to keep him anyway.

The Left and NeverTrump Republicans will just have to swallow that fact.
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I believe voters have already made a determination about the young lothario Trump and have decided to keep him anyway.

The Left and NeverTrump Republicans will just have to swallow that fact.

If that were indeed a "fact", I'd be willing to accept it.  Of course it isn't.   *****rollingeyes*****  Voters haven't had a chance to decide "to keep" (or not to keep) President Trump.  They won't get that chance until 2020. 

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I know, right?

That seared conscience thing you people display is a thing to behold!

You people hate being reminded about principles, virtue and morality as much as the Godless Left does.
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I believe voters have already made a determination about the young lothario Trump and have decided to keep him anyway.

The Left and NeverTrump Republicans will just have to swallow that fact.

*lothario*...is that what we call adulterers now?
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I know, right?

That seared conscience thing you people display is a thing to behold!

You people hate being reminded about principles, virtue and morality as much as the Godless Left does.

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Principles?  You make me laugh.  So many Trump supporters gave those up when they criticized Obama's deficit spending but simply accept it when "their guy" does it. 
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“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.


You get an unwelcome, unwanted saliva shower from that, courtesy of the Giuliani lisp.  I guess he'll be making the rounds on TV again.  That should be fun.
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I know, right?

That seared conscience thing you people display is a thing to behold!

You people hate being reminded about principles, virtue and morality as much as the Godless Left does.

Perhaps more because it's new and exciting to them.

The left has been mocking morality for decades.  These people (who claim to be) on the right have just been at it since 2016.
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I'm sorry, never-Trumpers made the decision to not be a part of things, Conservatism is happening and no thanks to you. Men are not perfect, Jefferson owned slaves and bedded one.

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You get an unwelcome, unwanted saliva shower from that, courtesy of the Giuliani lisp.  I guess he'll be making the rounds on TV again.  That should be fun.

Is it just me....?..... that thinks Giuliani has been an underwhelming embarrassment?
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*lothario*...is that what we call adulterers now?

The left has loads of euphemisms for old-fashioned sin.
Character still matters.  It always matters.

I wear a mask as an exercise in liberty and love for others.  To see it as an infringement of liberty is to entirely miss the point.  Be kind.

"Sometimes I think the Church would be better off if we would call a moratorium on activity for about six weeks and just wait on God to see what He is waiting to do for us. That's what they did before Pentecost."   - A. W. Tozer

Use the time God is giving us to seek His will and feel His presence.