President Trump's lawyer and self-described fixer Michael Cohen REPORTEDLY 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.
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.