Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Sex, Lies and Michael Cohen’s Tapes

Where does this one fall on the scale of President Trump’s scandals? Plus, Jonathan Bernstein’s morning links.

July 25, 2018 at 2:08 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Lordy, there are tapes.

I’m talking about the latest presidential sex scandal, the one in which then-candidate Donald Trump appears to have arranged for payments through his … I suppose I really do have to call him a “fixer” here, Michael Cohen, and through the National Enquirer to former Playboy model Karen McDougal so that she would stay quiet about the affair she says she had with Trump. Cohen taped a conversation with Trump and released it to the public on Tuesday night, so we’re all on that one now.