The Washington Post reports that allies of Trump are now worried that the FBI might have seized recordings that Cohen might have made of his conversations with Trump.
Allies of President Trump fear that federal investigators may have seized recordings of conversations made by Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Cohen occasionally taped his conversations with others and would play them back for colleagues, those close to Cohen told the newspaper.
Now some Trump associates reportedly fear that tapes of recorded conversations could have been taken by FBI agents during the raid of Cohen’s office on Monday.
“We heard he had some proclivity to make tapes,” one Trump adviser told the paper. “Now we are wondering, who did he tape? Did he store those someplace where they were actually seized? … Did they find his recordings?”
It’s unknown if Cohen did record any conversations between himself and Trump, but sources told the Post that Cohen recorded discussions dealing with both business and politics.
One individual said Cohen would play recordings for him of the Trump lawyer talking with other top advisers to the president.
“It was his standard practice to do it,” that individual said.
It is absolutely remarkable how Trump’s controversy gets more and more like Nixon’s. But of course, we still don’t know if these recordings exist. But if they do, wow…
Now, of course there’s the issue of attorney-client privilege – but IF they can prove Cohen broke a law, then that severs that privilege and allows prosecutors to investigate evidence against the president. On the other hand if they do this without good evidence, then the Trump defenders have a good case to say Mueller has gone “rogue.” But, as of now, we just don’t know which is the case.