New Cohen Tape Surfaces a Bigger Trump Fish

Source: Bloomberg
Published: Jul 26, 2018
Author: Timothy L. O'Brien
Post Date: 2018-07-26 13:38:47 by Jameson
Views: 24233

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.)

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Allen Weisselberg

Remember that name, we're going to be hearing it often......

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#13: nolu chan    To: Jameson, Hank Rearden (#9)

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?

nolu chan posted on 2018-07-27 23:26:48   Reply   Private Reply


#14: CZ82    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."

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...

CZ82 posted on 2018-07-28 08:33:29   Reply   Private Reply


#15: Jameson    To: nolu chan (#13)

What is the alleged crime?

I'm not a lawyer.

However as an American I can tell you what I think.

The current resident of the WH was offered, through his family, friends, and colleagues, (and quite possibly directly) material assistance to fraudulently gain advantage in the presidential elction from a hostile foreign power.

The Russians OFFERED this assistance purely to benefit themselves and their agenda.

Both sides in any deal seek to help their own cause....what was offered in return for this assistance?

DS Donnie knew about the meeting and welcomed the opportunity to enter into a deal with the criminal enterprise which is the Kremlin.

He lied about his involvement in making this deal, and he continues to lie about it.

So what is this crime called? You tell me.

Jameson posted on 2018-07-28 11:52:40   Reply   Private Reply


#16: Jameson    To: CZ82 (#14)

Didn't Trump claim he didn't know about the meeting?

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.

Jameson posted on 2018-07-28 11:59:08   Reply   Private Reply


#17: CZ82    To: Jameson (#16)

But let's remember, dip-shit donnie is a chronic lying sack-of-shit

That is a proven fact.

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??

https://youtu.be/YvDcJydVcHo

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#18: nolu chan    To: CZ82 (#14)

Didn't Trump claim he didn't know about the meeting?

I asked you what the CRIME was. Which part of Title 18 makes it a criminal act to claim one did not know about a meeting, even if the claim is false? You are not describing any criminal act.

nolu chan posted on 2018-07-28 12:28:59   Reply   Private Reply


#19: nolu chan    To: Jameson (#15)

The current resident of the WH was offered, through his family, friends, and colleagues, (and quite possibly directly) material assistance to fraudulently gain advantage in the presidential elction from a hostile foreign power.

The Russians OFFERED this assistance purely to benefit themselves and their agenda.

Both sides in any deal seek to help their own cause....what was offered in return for this assistance?

DS Donnie knew about the meeting and welcomed the opportunity to enter into a deal with the criminal enterprise which is the Kremlin.

He lied about his involvement in making this deal, and he continues to lie about it.

There is no support for the allegations that "The Russians offered assistance to DJT. There is no support for an allegation that any deal was offered to DJT, or that he offered anything in return. There is no evidence that DJT knew about the meeting. DJT did not attend the meeting. There is no support for your allegation that any deal was made with DJT. There is no evidence of any criminal enterprise with DJT.

If DJT lied when he denied knowing about the meeting, lying is not a crime.

So what is this crime called? You tell me.

It is called what you ain't got. Keep trying though.

nolu chan posted on 2018-07-28 12:35:31   Reply   Private Reply


#20: nolu chan    To: Jameson, CZ82 (#16)

But let's remember, dip-shit donnie is a chronic lying sack-of-shit

That is a proven fact.

But let's remember that lying to the Fake News stenographers is not a crime.

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#21: nolu chan    To: CZ82 (#14)

"HE KNEW, HE KNEW, HE KNEW, HE's A TRAITOR A COLLABORATOR...

Trump will be the first in history to be tried and found guilty of the crime of collusion.

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#22: Jameson    To: nolu chan (#20)

But let's remember that lying to the Fake News stenographers is not a crime.

He lies to everyone, including you.

Jameson posted on 2018-07-28 12:50:00   Reply   Private Reply


#23: Jameson    To: nolu chan (#19)

There is no support for the allegations...

I believe that there is plenty of support for these and additional allegations...

Which will be made public soon by Mr. Cohen and other members of 45's team (past and present)

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#24: Justified    To: Jameson (#22)

He lies to everyone, including you.

That's hilarious! He has lied the least of all politicians that I have ever seen. Trump is actually doing what he claimed he would do. If only politicians where as honest as Trump!!!!!

The whole Demoncrap party is a lie. They do not care they do not help the poor, they do not fight for the working man, they do not care about minorities they do not care about America. If the Demoncrap party were honest no one would vote for them except mentally ill nutbags!

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#25: CZ82    To: nolu chan (#21)

Trump will be the first in history to be tried and found guilty of the crime of collusion.

Considering it's not a crime the not so sane are going to have a very hard time doing something about it, but that hasn't/won't stop them from trying. The biggest issue I see is the average person is sick of hearing about this BS and are tuning out the collusion/conspiracy theorists, and the polls are showing this his approval ratings are climbing higher the more the fools scream about his faux collusion. Good luck impeaching a President with 50% or better approval rating it ain't going to happen.

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#26: nolu chan    To: Jameson (#23)

collusion: secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose

DJT or anyone else can collude all day long, every day, with whomever he chooses and there is no crime. The crime of collusion does not exist.

nolu chan posted on 2018-07-28 15:40:26   Reply   Private Reply


#27: nolu chan    To: Jameson (#22)

He lies to everyone, including you.

And lying is not yet a crime without more, such as lying under oath. Perjury is a crime. Lying is not.

nolu chan posted on 2018-07-28 15:42:18   Reply   Private Reply


#28: GrandIsland    To: nolu chan (#27)

And lying is not yet a crime without more, such as lying under oath. Perjury is a crime. Lying is not.

You are wasting your time, trying to educate a triggered, over sensitized, weak, INTOLERANT... snowflake.

That asshole knows there ain’t SHIT on Trump... but they use the bias media and their conspiracy theories to divide the sheep. Same tactics as the Paultards do HERE.

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#29: CZ82    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??

You know I had a sneaking suspicion that you wouldn't truthfully answer that question, the hypocrisy is strong with you.

CZ82 posted on 2018-07-28 17:54:14   Reply   Private Reply


#30: nolu chan    To: Jameson, CZ82 (#16)

But let's remember, dip-shit donnie is a chronic lying sack-of-shit

That is a proven fact.

But let's remember that being a chronic lying sack-of-shit is not a crime.

That is a proven fact, unlike contrasting chronic Libertarian mopery.

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#31: CZ82    To: nolu chan (#30)

LOL....

CZ82 posted on 2018-07-29 08:56:01   Reply   Private Reply


#32: Jameson    To: nolu chan (#30)

But let's remember that being a chronic lying sack-of-shit is not a crime.

You must be awfully proud of your president......and of your ability to justify this man's existence.

He's a degenerate lying sack-of-shit, but that's not actually a crime!!!

So he's still my hero.

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#33: Jameson    To: CZ82 (#29)

how does it make him any different than the politicians you support/vote for??

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.

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#34: Jameson    To: CZ82 (#25)

Good luck impeaching a President with 50% or better approval rating

The Kremlin's chief of US operations is nowhere near 50%...

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

He will not be impeached. He will resign with a shit-load of angry tweets in the middle of the night.

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#35: GrandIsland    To: Jameson (#32)

Where were you when Clinton lied about using an interns cunt for an ashtray?

Where were you when your potato president was using his power to spying on republican candidates (more specifically, the one that threatened your cunt, Shitlary)?

Shut your hypocritical shit flaps... snowflake.

GrandIsland posted on 2018-07-29 18:41:38   Reply   Private Reply


#36: A K A Stone    To: Jameson (#34)

He will not be impeached. He will resign with a shit-load of angry tweets in the middle of the night.

I think he would call for civil war before he did that. Then every liberal in the country would be a legitimate target. Including you.

Be careful what you wish for faggot snowflake.

A K A Stone posted on 2018-07-29 18:44:05   Reply   Private Reply


#37: GrandIsland    To: Jameson (#33)

When it comes to being a greasy degenerate pathological liar, your hero has no peers.

Your mental issues have just been discovered by medical professionals and NAMED as a mental fucking disease. You suffer from Trump Anxiety Syndrome. There is no cure but suicide. Please eat a buckshot sandwich ASAP... and please do it outside. Someone’s gotta clean that shit up.

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#38: Jameson    To: GrandIsland (#35)

Where were you?

That's all you've got?

You can't defend the degenerate orange russian, can you?

Fuck off, smokey.

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#39: GrandIsland    To: A K A Stone (#36)

I think he would call for civil war

I’d jump at the chance to legally hunt them. Bring on the civil war. While we arm ourselves with 80% of the firearms owned by the populace, they’ll arm themselves with Tide Pods and safe spaces.

GrandIsland posted on 2018-07-29 18:48:42   Reply   Private Reply


#40: GrandIsland    To: Jameson (#38)

You can't defend the degenerate orange russian, can you?

I don’t need to “defend” Trump. He’s doing what he campaigned to do and has broke no laws. THAT’S ALL I CARE ABOUT. I could give a rats fuck if video surfaced of Trump grabbing Pelosi’s dried up snatch... and killed all the fruit flies buzzing around that scabbed over thing.

GrandIsland posted on 2018-07-29 18:52:44   Reply   Private Reply


#41: Jameson    To: A K A Stone (#36)

I think he would call for civil war before he did that.

Probably......

however, no one would care.

So he will storm out in the middle of the night, threatening to sue everyone who he perceives to be his "enemy"......

which will include most of those closest to him, like his wife....and his son-in-law..... and his attorney.

Did you hear today that Kushner is ready to flip in exchange for immunity - based on what SDNY already has from Cohen?

That's some greasy shit right there huh?

Jameson posted on 2018-07-29 18:57:35   Reply   Private Reply


#42: Jameson    To: GrandIsland (#40)

has "broke" no laws

**broken**

victim of public schools?

I think we'll find out a lot about just how many laws have been broken by Mrs. Putin....before the mid-terms....

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#43: A K A Stone    To: Jameson (#42)

You would make good fertalizer.

A K A Stone posted on 2018-07-29 19:06:11   Reply   Private Reply


#44: Jameson    To: A K A Stone (#43)

**fertalizer**

**Fertilizer**

Too wasted to spell-check?

That's ok.... you get a pass.

We both know why, right?

I'd be pounding the Four-Loko like it was my last night before heading to county jail too, if I were you.

Party-on Wayne!

Looking forward to November!!!

Jameson posted on 2018-07-29 19:15:25   Reply   Private Reply


#45: Jameson    To: GrandIsland (#40)

THAT’S ALL I CARE ABOUT.

Ahhhh....

The low-IQ voter.

Congratulations!!

YOU!! are the demographic that the Russian crime lords knew they could compromise with the right greasy lying degenerate candidate...

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#46: GrandIsland    To: Jameson (#45)

The low-IQ voter.

51% voted for Shitlery because she has (it’s believed) a cunt. Who’s the low IQ voter?

lol

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#47: nolu chan    To: Jameson (#32)

collusion: secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose

http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/04/03/alan-dershowitz-mueller-probe-trump-collusion-not-crime

Dershowitz on Alleged Trump Collusion: Robert Mueller 'Inventing a Crime'

Fox News
April 3, 2018
Hannity (video at link)

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz reacted to reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating President Donald Trump for possible collusion, but does not consider Trump a criminal target in the probe.

Dershowitz, a longtime Democrat who supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, said Mueller would be "inventing a crime" to charge Trump in that case.

"There's no such crime as 'collusion' in the federal statute," he said.

[snip]

https://www.newsweek.com/alan-dershowitz-donald-trump-impeachment-1012672

Dershowitz: President Donald Trump Should Not Be Impeached Even If He Colluded With Russia | Opinion

By Alan Dershowitz
Newsweek
On 7/9/18 at 2:56 PM

[excerpt]

What if President Donald Trump were to be impeached for colluding with Russia during the presidential campaign? If there were proof of such collusion—and to date I have seen none—that would be a serious political sin. An American should not collude with a foreign power, especially a hostile foreign power, in an effort to enhance his candidacy. But there is a dispositive difference between a political sin and a high crime and misdemeanor. There is no such crime of collusion in the context of an election. Collusion may entail other crimes, such as election law violations or accessory to crimes such as hacking. But collusion itself is simply not a crime.

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#48: Jameson    To: GrandIsland (#46)

Who’s the low IQ voter?

You

You are the LOW IQ Voter.

YOU are the voter who was targeted by the Russians...too stupid to think logically...willing to vote on pure emotion and hatred...

You delivered to the Russians their victory - without them firing single shot...

Jameson posted on 2018-07-29 21:27:00   Reply   Private Reply


#49: GrandIsland    To: Jameson (#48)

YOU are the voter who was targeted by the Russians...

You stupid cunt. I was already going to vote for Trump, LONG BEFORE the Russians hacked Shitlarys email.

I’d vote for Putin before I’d vote for a filthy snowflake. Go fuck yourself.

GrandIsland posted on 2018-07-29 21:31:33   Reply   Private Reply


#50: A K A Stone    To: Jameson (#48)

Do you really believe the delusions you post?

A K A Stone posted on 2018-07-29 22:04:25   Reply   Private Reply


#51: VxH    To: Jameson (#48)

You delivered to the Russians their victory

The Bolshevik-Zionists, not the Russians.

They'd like to see Putin gone too - so they can legalize sodomy in Russia like they did in their fake "israel" in 1963.

VxH posted on 2018-07-29 22:16:55   Reply   Private Reply


#52: VxH    To: nolu chan (#27)

And lying is not yet a crime without more, such as lying under oath. Perjury is a crime. Lying is not.

Lev 6:1-4

6 The Lord said to Moses: 2 "If anyone sins and is unfaithful to the Lord by deceiving his neighbor about something entrusted to him or left in his care or stolen, or if he cheats him, 3 or if he finds lost property and lies about it, or if he swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that people may do — 4 when he thus sins and becomes guilty NIV

What does this mean, Your Worshipfulness?

VxH posted on 2018-07-29 22:20:37   Reply   Private Reply


#53: A K A Stone    To: VxH (#51)

I'm not sure who is dumber you or Jameson. Probably Jameson but you are a close runner up.

You voted for Trump. You're just upset he doesn't hate Jews like yourself and Hitler.

A K A Stone posted on 2018-07-29 22:23:54   Reply   Private Reply


#54: VxH    To: A K A Stone (#53)

You voted for Trump.

I voted for "You'd be in jail".

But (D)rumpf, the deceiving zionist judas poodlegoat, lied about that like everything else.

VxH posted on 2018-07-29 22:29:19   Reply   Private Reply


#55: A K A Stone    To: VxH (#54)

You voted for Trump. Thank you.

A K A Stone posted on 2018-07-29 22:31:56   Reply   Private Reply


#56: VxH    To: Jameson (#34)

He will resign with a shit-load of angry tweets in the middle of the night.

MAGA: "My Attorney Got Arrested!"

VxH posted on 2018-07-29 22:35:50   Reply   Private Reply


#57: A K A Stone    To: VxH (#56)

Your top issue is you hate Jews. Even though Jews are Superior to you in every way.

A K A Stone posted on 2018-07-29 22:37:44   Reply   Private Reply


#58: VxH    To: A K A Stone (#55)

You voted for Trump. Thank you.

No. I voted FOR Ben Carson, then I voted against Hillary Clinton.

Grab 'em by the whaaaat?

VxH posted on 2018-07-29 22:39:11   Reply   Private Reply


#59: VxH    To: A K A Stone (#57)

Your top issue is you hate Jews.


Rev 2:9

I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

KJV

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#60: A K A Stone    To: VxH (#59)

You are out of context.

Bibi isn't a Jew?

You really are a dumb bigot.

A K A Stone posted on 2018-07-29 22:43:24   Reply   Private Reply


#61: A K A Stone    To: VxH (#58)

Rationalize all you want. You clicked on Trump Pence. Thanks loser.

A K A Stone posted on 2018-07-29 22:44:26   Reply   Private Reply


#62: VxH    To: A K A Stone (#60)

What year did the synagogue of Satan legalize sodomy, again, in their state establishment?

1963

Same ol' Ba'alshyte, different municipal toilet.

Bibi isn't a Jew?

No more or less so than Korah, the Pharaoh's treasurer was. What happened to him again?

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