Well this is an interesting development in the Cohen/Trump hush money saga:
NY POST – President Trump’s lawyer and self-described fixer Michael Cohen secretly recorded a chat with the Trump two months before the election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with the future president, a new report said Friday.
The FBI seized the recording — along with scores of others as well as Cohen’s cell phones and computers — after raiding Cohen’s office, home and hotel room earlier this year, The New York Times reported.
The feds are investigating Cohen for, among other things, paying hush money to women, including porn vixen Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, the Playboy model, to clam up about their alleged flings with the president.
Daniels charges that she had a one-night stand with Trump in 2006 shortly after his third wife, Melania, gave birth to their son.
McDougal said she and Trump had a year-long affair the same year.
The recording’s existence increases the danger that the once-loyal Cohen presents to the president, who has denied both the affairs and knowing anything about the payments.
Giuliani has responded, pointing out that it’s just a discussion and no payment was ever made from this discussion:
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer and regular TV defender, told The Times that the president had discussed the hush money payments with Cohen on the two-minute recording — but that no payment was ever made.
“Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance,” Giuliani said, adding that Trump had told Cohen that if he were to make a payment to the woman, he should write a check instead of sending cash so it could be documented.
“In the big scheme of things, it’s powerful exculpatory evidence,” Giuliani insisted.
Cohen’s lawyers discovered the recording while reviewing evidence seized in the raids and reportedly shared it with Trump’s lawyers.
“We have nothing to say on this matter,” Cohen’s lawyer, former Clintonista Lanny Davis, told the paper when asked about the tape.
This couldn’t have been about the Stormy Daniels payment, as she wasn’t a Playboy model. And this reporting on the recording doesn’t name the model in question. However ABC News suggests it is referring to McDougal. The White House has denied that Trump had an affair with her, so at the very least, the conversation would potentially reveal the truth about that.