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pnwmom

(108,994 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:55 AM Jul 2019

Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker

Source: Courthouse News

MANHATTAN (CN) – When the first batch of Michael Cohen search-warrant materials became public, the files disclosed evidence that President Trump’s former fixer secretly worked for a foreign government.

The new materials released on Thursday proved no less significant, detailing the actions Cohen took after the release of the “Access Hollywood” video threatened to derail Trump’s campaign. Within days of the release, according to the warrants, Cohen exchanged a “series of calls, text messages and emails” with Trump; his then-press secretary Hope Hicks; the National Enquirer’s David Pecker; and Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Keith Davidson.

Detailing Cohen’s illegal hush-money payments to two women, the unsealed pages dispensed with the veiling of “Individual-1.”

“As set forth below, there is probable cause to believe that Cohen made an excessive in-kind contribution to the presidential election campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump in the form of a $130,000 payment to Stephanie Clifford, an individual who was rumored to have had an extramarital affair with Trump, in exchange for her agreement not to disclose the alleged affair,” the document states.

Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/michael-cohen-files-implicate-trump-hope-hicks-and-david-pecker/

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Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker (Original Post) pnwmom Jul 2019 OP
What a shocker jberryhill Jul 2019 #1
I'm gobsmacked. gibraltar72 Jul 2019 #2
And........? LiberalLovinLug Jul 2019 #3
Keep your shirt on. This is one reason Pelosi is holding off on starting impeachment Nitram Jul 2019 #8
K&R Scurrilous Jul 2019 #4
Pres Trump is Individual-1. End of story! riversedge Jul 2019 #5
Lies, damned lies, and lawyers. LanternWaste Jul 2019 #6
Princess Hicks will never see a cell. BigmanPigman Jul 2019 #7
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
1. What a shocker
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:06 PM
Jul 2019

Do you mean that Trump had something to do with wanting to obtain an agreement for Daniels not to tell her story; and that Pecker had something to do with his publication buying McDougal's story?

Who would have guessed?

LiberalLovinLug

(14,176 posts)
3. And........?
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 01:08 PM
Jul 2019

Only Cohen pays for it.



Its more painful to hear these kinds of things than not. Like the Mueller report with its non-conclusions after over a year of obvious obstruction, publicly recorded for all to hear. No one significant pays for it.

Nitram

(22,877 posts)
8. Keep your shirt on. This is one reason Pelosi is holding off on starting impeachment
Fri Jul 19, 2019, 10:18 AM
Jul 2019

proceedings. There is still a lot of hard evidence of a multitude of crimes coming through the pipeline.

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)
7. Princess Hicks will never see a cell.
Thu Jul 18, 2019, 05:18 PM
Jul 2019

She is white and has tons of $$$ and is entitled so she won't even need to worry her pretty self over it.

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