Just when Donald Trump was beginning to feel as if his political and personal life were gliding along as smooth as silk (yeah, right), comes a secret Trump-Cohen tape.
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On Tuesday, CNN released a damning Trump-Cohen tape-recorded conversation between “The Donald” and his one-time fixer/lawyer Michael Cohen. The conversation was regarding an affair Trump once had with Playboy model Karen McDougal and was led by Cohen — a friend-turned-foe who once claimed he would take a bullet for “The Donald” (That was then and this is now!).
During the Trump-Cohen tape, the 2 men are heard discussing how Trump would “have to pay” for the rights to Karen McDougal’s story about the alleged affair. McDougal sold the rights to her story to American Media, which publishes the popular gossip rag The National Enquirer. Cohen is then heard telling Trump of his plans to set up a company to finance the purchase of the rights to the story. Trump and Cohen then discussed how to pay for the rights in the recording, with Trump heard telling Cohen to “pay with cash.”
“The only people who use cash are drug dealers and mobsters.”
– Lanny Davis, lawyer for Michael Cohen
The question here is not if Donald Trump had an affair with a woman or many women. The question is if he lied about it to the American public — and if he broke any campaign finance laws by secretly paying off someone for their silence with campaign cash. The answer could come in this tape recording, or in one of the dozen additional tapes the FBI seized in its raid of Michael Cohen’s home and office earlier this year.
Rest assured, the Trump-Cohen tape will not move the needle one iota regarding how and/or what Trump’s supporters think of him. However, if the Justice Dept. is able to decipher that Trump did, in fact, break the law by using campaign funds to pay a woman for her silence about a sexual escapade, this tape would be the smoking gun and the true beginning of the end of Donald J. Trump.
Stay tuned…
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Hmm. Hard to believe all the mess we’re seeing play out, in living color and in front of the entire world, involves a sitting American president. Man, how far this country has fallen by electing such a grotesque creature.
Okay so, given that Cohen obviously did NOT trust Trump, I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume that this recording probably ISN’T the only time Cohen has recorded one of his “highly sensitive” conversations with Trump. In fact, I think it very likely that Cohen recorded other “sensitive” conversations with Trump, unbeknownst to Trump of course.
Simply put: Michael Cohen isn’t the brightest bulb in the pack. But apparently, he isn’t a complete dupe either.
And he may actually now be on the verge of truly “flipping” on Trump.