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jimnyc
07-25-2018, 02:37 PM
"The Rat" is how it's titled on The Drudge Report. :) And that's absolutely correct when looking at an attorney who records his own client.

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'What kind of a lawyer would tape a client?' Trump unloads on Michael Cohen after recording shows the pair discussing campaign-season payoff to bury old affair with Playboy model

-President Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen for taping their September 2016 chat about an alleged extramarital affair
-'What kind of a lawyer would tape a client?' he tweeted, speculating that he may have recorded other clients
-The tape aired Tuesday shows Trump and Cohen discussing payment to buy story rights of a woman who said she had slept with the then-candidate
-The revelation was followed by claims that there are other recordings
-The FBI seized audio when it raided Cohen's home, office and hotel as part of a reported criminal bank-fraud and campaign-finance investigation
-Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis said there are 'certainly more tapes,' but Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had already insisted the president's voice isn't on them

Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, hours after a 2016 audio recording was leaked showing the two men discussing a campaign-season payout to bury damaging accusations of an extramarital affair a decade earlier.

'What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before?' an incredulous Trump tweeted.

Trump also complained that the recording, first aired by CNN, appeared to end suddenly.

'Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things?' he asked. 'I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped – can this be so? Too bad!'

Cohen disclosed this year in federal court that his legal practice consisted of representing just three clients: Trump, Fox News Channel host SeanHannity and former Republican National Committee fundraiser Elliott Broidy.

On Saturday the president claimed the idea of a lawyer taping a client was 'totally unheard of & perhaps illegal,' adding that '[t]he good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!'

Rest - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5990807/Trump-unloads-Michael-Cohen-kind-lawyer-tape-client.html