Trump Says Cohen’s Tape of Him Was ‘Perhaps Illegal’

  • The two discussed buying McDougal tale from Enquirer publisher
  • Questions swirl about the possibility of other recordings
Michael CohenPhotographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
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President Donald Trump lashed out at his former lawyer after reports Michael Cohen secretly recorded a conversation in which they discussed hush-money payments to a onetime Playboy model who said she had an affair with Trump.

“Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) - almost unheard of,” Trump said in a Twitter postBloomberg Terminal early Saturday. “Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client - totally unheard of & perhaps illegal.”