Trump's allies worry that federal investigators may have seized recordings made by his attorney

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

President Trump’s personal attorney Michael D. Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, according to three people familiar with his practice, and allies of the president are worried that the recordings were seized by federal investigators in a raid of Cohen’s office and residences this week.

Cohen, who served for a decade as a lawyer at the Trump Organization and is a close confidant of Trump, was known to store the conversations using digital files and then replay them for colleagues, according to people who have interacted with him.

“We heard he had some proclivity to make tapes,” said one Trump adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. “Now we are wondering, who did he tape? Did he store those someplace where they were actually seized? .?.?. Did they find his recordings?”

Cohen did not respond to requests for comment. Stephen Ryan, an attorney for Cohen, declined to comment. A White House spokeswoman referred a request for comment to Cohen and his attorney.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-allies-worry-that-federal-investigators-may-have-seized-recordings-made-by-his-attorney/2018/04/12/16d6345a-3e89-11e8-912d-16c9e9b37800_story.html

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[flibbitygiblets]

1. Lordy I hope there are tapes

Watergate 2.0

[mitch96]

28. THIS is what I've been waiting for........ if it's true

If they have the motherfucker perjuring himself on tape, he (tRump) is toast.. and he knows it.
I thought for sure Comey was wired when he talked to tRump but it would be admissible in court. Then again it would prove to the investigators what was what.
Popcorn ready....
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[Leghorn21]

2. GOOD TIMES, mutthafuckas!!! Lemme se ya sweat this out!!!

“We heard he had some proclivity to make tapes,” said one Trump adviser




Lordy I hope there are tapes!!

[Fred Sanders]

33. President's personal lawyer raided by FBI over sex payoff scandal...all normal!?

Incredible still no universal demands for resignation...the most massive white privilege ever.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Well if they didn't seize them, THANKS for letting us know they exist!

Fool's lips sink ships.

[SallyHemmings]

4. Of course there are tapes

Cohen’s hashtag should be Jethro Bodine.

[FakeNoose]

12. LOL!

[grantcart]

5. hahahahaha

[wishstar]

6. Carol Leonnig of Wash Post says FBI probably has recordings as they got all his electronic devices

"Cohen wanted his business calls on tape so he could use them later as leverage, one person said. He frequently noted that under New York law, only one party had to consent to the taping of a conversation, this person added.

During the 2016 race, Cohen — who did not have a formal role on the campaign — had a reputation among campaign staff as someone to avoid, in part because he was believed to be secretly taping conversations.

In one instance, Cohen played a recording of a conversation he had with someone else to a Trump campaign official to demonstrate that he was in a position to challenge that person’s veracity if necessary, an associate recalled.

Cohen indicated that he had something to use against the person he had taped, the associate said."

[Gothmog]

7. Lordy, there may be tapes!

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

9. This past week, Wittes said he had to give the baby cannon a break!

And of all times...

[SCVDem]

22. Melted the barrel?

I can see that happening.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Maybe he ran out of ordnance

and has to order more.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Cohen likes to tape? Now THAT'S interesting. I wonder if he has possession of any Trump tapes.

Like maybe a tape of the Trump-Comey conversation. Is it possible that Trump taped that, hoping to be able to blackmail Comey later, if Comey had pledged loyalty? Trump can't work taping, I'm sure, so someone else would have had to do it for him. But then maybe they gave it to Cohen, thinking it would be protected by atty-client privilege? (Remember how Trump tweeted about tapes of Comey-Trump conversation?)

[TalenaGor]

10. so it wasn't Obama tapping him...it was his own atty ROFL

Tapping...taping....I can see where trump got confused LMFAO

[BumRushDaShow]

11. You know they are the masters of projection

[TalenaGor]

13. lol!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Shakespearian! . . . . nt

[Marie Marie]

14. If they did nothing wrong, what are they so worried about?

[magicarpet]

20. Angels, alterboys and choirboys - the lot of them.

Good, good men - not a thing to fear or worry about. How come they don't act so innocent ? Mueller will find out.

[denvine]

15. HaHa!!!

Sleep with the snakes and you will probably be bitten! Oh please, please, please let it be so!

[NBachers]

16. Cohen's the kind of guy who'd lead conversations toward compromising statements, just so he can

have them on record and use them as currency & influence.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Shades of Watergate! Those who don't know history are condemned to repeat it.

Cohen turned 6 years old in the summer of 1972 and 7 in 1973.

Not too bright.

How long until it is announced that there are gaps and edits?

[magicarpet]

19. Well light your ass on fire....

Then quickly gulp down five gallons of hi-test gasoline and a gallon of aviation fuel.

Why don't ya - Cohen ?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Figures that tRump attorney graduated from worst law school in USA

his J.D. from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1991, a then-autonomous institution that later became the law school of Western Michigan University, and which in December 2017 was ranked the worst law school in the country.

[Gothmog]

34. Yep

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[jpak]

23. Was there an 18 minute gap?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. When a guy's attorney has an attorney, case doesn't look good. When he has two attorneys, well,

Michael Cohen has at least two attorneys: Stephen Ryan quote in the article, and David Schwartz.

[woodsprite]

26. Maybe he stored them on the 50th floor of Trump Tower. n/t

[Kablooie]

27. I heard they raided a locker ...

Owned By a friend of Cohen’s.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Supposedly they were let in

by a former staffer who still had a key I think and Cohen went ballistic.

[Thekaspervote]

30. And why wouldnt he have done recordings!

I remember early on that dodarts attorneys said they never met with him without 2 of them being present since he was such a liar!

[jberryhill]

31. Good lord - you dont tape client conversations

Notes, yes. Recordings? Never.

[Gothmog]

32. Another ethical violation by Cohen

Link to tweet