3 hours ago
Michael Cohen secretly recorded telling Trump about company he wanted to open for 'info regarding our friend David'
By Ben Kochman

Jurors just heard Donald Trump's voice on a conversation secretly recorded by Michael Cohen in which Cohen tells Trump, "I need to open up a company for a transfer of all that info regarding our friend 'David.'"

“I’ve spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up,” Cohen adds to Trump on the recording, referring to the long-time chief financial officer of the Trump Organization.

“Let me know what’s happening, OK?” Trump can be heard saying.

Prosecutors did not immediately explain the relevance of the recording, or who "David" refers to.

But the publisher of the National Enquirer, which orchestrated a separate payoff to Trump's other alleged lover Karen McDougal, is David Pecker.

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Here's what happened on Day 10 of Trump's 'hush money' criminal trial

Day 10 of Trump's "hush money" criminal trial is in the books. Here's what happened.

— Stormy Daniels' lawyer Keith Davidson testified that Michael Cohen whined in a post 2016 election phone call that Donald Trump still owed him a $130,000 reimbursement for paying the porn star Daniels to keep quiet about a sexual encounter, and griped that he was stiffed on a spot in Trump’s White House.

— Trump's lawyers unearthed Davidson’s unsavory past dealings during a tense cross-examination, pointing out that he represented clients who were paid hush money by actor Charlie Sheen, and asking him whether he got another client paid for leaking Lindsay Lohan’s medical files to TMZ.

— Davidson cheekily testified that the $130,000 that Daniels received from Cohen to buy her silence about the alleged one-night stand “wasn’t a payoff, and it wasn’t hush money.” The lawyer cheekily testified that he prefers to describe the arrangement as a “consideration in a civil settlement.”

— Trump was warned about speaking about jurors at the trial in a morning hearing on whether he had violated the court's limited "gag order" that's meant to stop him from bashing jurors and witnesses. Prosecutors asked to fine him $4,000 on top of $9,000 he's already been fined.

— Jurors heard a potentially damning piece of evidence right at the buzzer Thursday afternoon: Cohen telling Trump on a recording “I need to open up a company” regarding a “transfer” involving “our friend David." Prosecutors did not explain the recording, but it could be a reference to David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer, which arranged a $150,000 payoff that silenced another of Trump's alleged lovers, the Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal.

The trial will start up again Friday morning with Douglas Daus, a forensic analyst at the Manhattan DA’s office, still on the stand.

Well, I hope that doesn't happen. And it may not. The Ukes seem to be pretty ready to defend their land. And seem to be doing a dang good job. They need help, as England did in WWII.

Makes me wonder if we would be as willing to fight and die. Heck..Mexico wants Texas...okey dokey. Russia wants Alaska...okey dokey.

I really enjoyed your reviews of the Allmans and Deep Purple. You do such an excellent job!

The only thing I have to add is...of course I remember Joe South. However, I like DP's cover much mo better.

The core of "stagflation" back then (1970's) was due to the oil embargo and the astounding jump in the price of fuel for both cars and commercial vehicles. The higher prices soared at every step of the production and distribution process.

That we have it again is almost for the same reason.
The difference is now the higher prices for energy throughout the economy are being forced upon us BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.

What did Mr. Jefferson say about governments that no longer serve the governed?