Gasp! They lied!A statement by the Trump campaign, just before the 2016 election, that it was unaware of payments to a Playboy model claiming to have had an affair with Donald Trump was blown up Friday with the revelation of a tape recording of a conversation between Trump and his attorney discussing paying the woman.
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Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied both Trump’s affair and his knowledge about the payments.
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But two months prior, Trump discussed potentially paying off McDougal with attorney Michael Cohen, his longtime fixer, [who] secretly recorded the conversation. The tape was among the items seized by the FBI when it raided Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, the New York Times reported Friday.
Trump’s current lawyer, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani confirmed to the Times that the payments were discussed — and said that Trump directed Cohen to write a check rather than use cash if he were to make them — but Giulani said the payment was never made.
I just can't believe they lied. It's so unlike them.The White House continued to deny Trump’s affair with McDougal, but over time pegged those denials to Trump himself.
“This is an old story that is just more fake news. The President says he never had a relationship with McDougal,” a White House spokeperson said in February New Yorker story about McDougal, in a statement that was reiterated for multiple stories about the model.
Maybe you should have been a little nicer to him.According to CNN, the President had no idea the calls were being recorded. When he learned this week about the tapes, which are now in the possession of the FBI, he reportedly said, “I can’t believe Michael would do this to me.”
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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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