Strange how Trump can lie for months/years, get proven as a liar, and yet keeps on lying...
Desperation continues for the Orange “there can be only one” Highlander… as the NY Times implies there may only be one tape (Haberman: “appears to be the only one”), which may actually imply the obverse elsewhere, since Trump tends to confound inductive reasoning. And he is the only one that matters.
Haberman and Schmidt tend to curry favor with Lord Dampnut using occasional bouts of tortured logic and squatting, so “the only one” tweet must be a CYA move.
The obstruction of justice case continues on its path, as Trump’s direct involvement seems more inculpatory rather than exculpatory.
Giuliani lamely frames the revelation of another Cohen tape: “In the big scheme of things, it’s powerful exculpatory evidence”, because secrecy doesn’t involve sodas.
“It can’t be more than a minute and a half,” Mr. Giuliani said, referring to the length of the conversation. “Twice someone walks in — someone brings soda in for them. It’s not some secret conversation.”
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The F.B.I. seized the recording this year during a raid on Mr. Cohen’s office. The Justice Department is investigating Mr. Cohen’s involvement in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election. Prosecutors want to know whether that violated federal campaign finance laws, and any conversation with Mr. Trump about those payments would be of keen interest to them.
The wide-ranging search warrants served on Mr. Cohen this spring show that prosecutors are investigating Mr. Cohen’s involvement in payments to silence women about their relationships with Mr. Trump. In addition to Ms. McDougal’s arrangement, prosecutors also sought evidence of payments to the adult film star Stephanie Clifford, who is better known as Stormy Daniels.
Mr. Trump has denied knowing about those payments, though people familiar with the arrangement have said he was aware of them. But his denial helped suppress public allegations of an affair during the final months of the campaign.
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For a decade, Mr. Cohen served as one of Mr. Trump’s most trusted fixers, aggressively taking on journalists, opposing lawyers and business adversaries. He frequently taped his conversations, unbeknown to the people with whom he was speaking. New York law allows one party to a conversation to tape conversations without the other knowing.
As Rose Mary Woods might say… There can be only 18.5 minutes.