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Title: New Cohen Tape Surfaces a Bigger Trump Fish
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Bloomberg
URL Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/arti ... ording-surfaces-a-bigger-catch
Published: Jul 26, 2018
Author: Timothy L. O'Brien
Post Date: 2018-07-26 13:38:47 by Jameson
Keywords: Frank, Wilson, Lives
Views: 12260
Comments: 112
Allen Weisselberg knows far more than the president’s former lawyer. About two months before Election Day in 2016, Donald Trump and his former lawyer (and self-described “fixer”) Michael Cohen were chatting about how to convince a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, to keep quiet about what she described as a long-term affair with the presidential candidate. “We’ll have to pay,” Cohen said, according to a recording of the conversation that CNN obtained and broadcast Tuesday night. “Pay with cash,” Trump appears to respond. “No, no,” Cohen says. Earlier in the conversation Cohen suggested that he “open a company for the transfer of all of that info” to the National Enquirer and its parent company, American Media Inc. AMI’s chairman, David Pecker, is a friend of the president and he is also referred to on the tape. The Enquirer had already purchased McDougal’s account of her affair with Trump earlier in 2016 and then never published it. Trump and Cohen appear to be discussing a second payment to McDougal (and there is no indication that it was ever made). “I’ve spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up,” Cohen tells Trump. “So, I’m all over that. And, I spoke to Allen about it.” Weisselberg isn’t a bit player in Trumplandia and his emergence on the Cohen- Trump recording – as someone possibly facilitating a scheme apparently meant to disguise a payoff – should worry the president. Weisselberg has detailed information about the Trump Organization’s operations, business deals and finances. If he winds up in investigators’ crosshairs for secreting payoffs, he could potentially provide much more damaging information to prosecutors than Cohen ever could about the president’s dealmaking. Cohen, of course, already is reportedly being investigated by federal prosecutors in New York for possibly engaging in bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations. To the extent that his legal travails spill over onto the president, it’s worrisome to the White House. But campaign finance violations aren’t likely to be as threatening to Trump as more serious transgressions such as, for example, obstruction of justice or exchanging policy favors for financial gain. Moreover, Cohen has only worked for Trump since 2006, and he never operated as a traditional lawyer. Instead, he brought potential licensing deals to the president's attention for years and also worked with the career criminal and Trump business partner Felix Sater on a proposal for a Trump project in Moscow. (Sater and Cohen, childhood friends, also paired up to push an initiative to end economic sanctions against Russia imposed because of its military annexation of part of Ukraine; Putin, according to my Bloomberg News colleagues, reportedly discussed a plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine during his private meeting with Trump in Helsinki last week.) Poster Comment: Allen Weisselberg Remember that name, we're going to be hearing it often......
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#6. To: Jameson (#0)
Unlike Hillary Bullshit Felon or Barky Odumbass, there no crime here. There's not even agreement as to what was said, so it'll fade along with all the other desperate leftist attempts to not get wiped out in November. RussiaRussiaRussia! StormyStormyStormy! TapeTapeTape! ..........pffffft. Crush the Idiot Left.
Nice typing Corky.... But, you are probably wrong.... https://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=56689
"Cohen willing to testify that Trump approved 2016 meeting with Russians" "President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen is willing to testify to Special Council Robert Mueller that Trump was aware of an infamous June 2016 meeting with Russian operatives at Trump Tower before it happened." What is the alleged crime?
What is the alleged crime? Didn't Trump claim he didn't know about the meeting? Unless I miss my guess that's about all that can come out of this "HE KNEW, HE KNEW, HE KNEW, HE's A TRAITOR A COLLABORATOR... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH".... Lol...
You're correct he DID claim to know nothing. But let's remember, dip-shit donnie is a chronic lying sack-of-shit That is a proven fact.
You know I had a sneaking suspicion that you wouldn't truthfully answer that question, the hypocrisy is strong with you.
When it comes to being a greasy degenerate pathological liar, your hero has no peers. He is in a class all his own. He is vastly different, and far more disgusting and untrustworthy than any candidate I've ever voted for or supported. There is the truthful answer you couldn't figure out for yourself.
My hero?
It is 100% truthful. what have you received? I do not seek to receive anything. (besides homo marriage) Personally, I believe everyone has the right to pursue happiness. If that pursuit includes marriage, it's ok by me. I am completely unaffected by anyone's marriage, or lack thereof.
I do not seek to receive anything. Yeah, right... People for reasons and that's usually (not always) for something they think will benefit "THEM". Some people do vote for what is best for the country and sometimes it doesn't always benefit them but it's the right thing to do. The problem is some of the reasons are silly and only benefit a small portion of the people. In essence they're being selfish and not seeing the big picture, what is the best thing to do for the majority of the population of this country.
#79. To: CZ82 (#77)
Believe whatever you choose to believe. I really don't care. The problem is some of the reasons are silly and only benefit a small portion of the people. In essence they're being selfish and not seeing the big picture.
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#9. To: Hank Rearden (#6)
"...there no crime here..."
#13. To: Jameson, Hank Rearden (#9)
https://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=56689
#14. To: nolu chan (#13)
"President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen is willing to testify to Special Council Robert Mueller that Trump was aware of an infamous June 2016 meeting with Russian operatives at Trump Tower before it happened."
#16. To: CZ82 (#14)
Didn't Trump claim he didn't know about the meeting?
#29. To: Jameson (#16)
Lets just assume for a minute here that you're right, how does it make him any different than the politicians you support/vote for??
#33. To: CZ82 (#29)
how does it make him any different than the politicians you support/vote for??
#72. To: Jameson (#33)
When it comes to being a greasy degenerate pathological liar, your hero has no peers. He is vastly different, and far more disgusting and untrustworthy than any candidate I've ever voted for or supported. There is the truthful answer you couldn't figure out for yourself.
That's not a truthful answer either and you know it. By the way what have you received that they promised you (besides homo marriage)?
#73. To: CZ82 (#72)
That's not a truthful answer.
#77. To: Jameson (#73)
what have you received?
Replies to Comment # 77. Yeah, right...
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