Thread by @timkmak

NEW: NPR has decide to publish the audio of Michael Cohen making legal threats against me while I was a Daily Beast reporter in 2015, as part of a larger story on Cohen's history of threats:

Listen here:
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What else did we learn?

Michael Avenatti now alleges to NPR that Stormy Daniels was coerced into signing the original Oct 2016 agreement by Michael Cohen.

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"In October of 2016, Michael Cohen made threats against my client Stormy Daniels, as it related to pressuring her to enter into the NDA and accept the $130,000 payment," Avenatti told NPR, but he offered no additional details when pressed.

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Sam Nunberg told NPR that Trump cultivated an agreesive environment within the Trump Organization, and that Cohen acted the way he expected Trump wanted him to act npr.org/2018/05/31/615…

Cohen's defenders say that there's nothing wrong with making legal threats where appropriate. "People like to paint him as some kind of a thug out of New York. He's an attorney and he knows what he's talking about," said Caputo

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Michael Cohen RT'd a threat to Megyn Kelly "We can gut her,"; threatened to have a Harvard student expelled for pranking Trump, filed lawsuits against Univision and a Miss USA. And this is how he conducted his job:

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Cohen never filed a lawsuit against me. But after The Daily Beast published the story, there was an effort to push Cohen out -- Nunberg says Corey Lewandowski and Hope Hicks were behind it.

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So what did Cohen say?

For one, he claimed there's no such thing as spousal rape.

"Of course understand that by the very definition you can't rape your spouse," Cohen said.

It's been illegal since 1984 in New York.

Cohen is a lawyer in New York.

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Michael Cohen then began making threats.

"I will take you for every penny you still don't have, and I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know"

Listen here:
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Here's how Michael Cohen's threats continued:

"So I'm warning you, tread very f***ing lightly because what I'm going to do to you is going to be f***ing disgusting. Do you understand me?"

Listen here:
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Michael Cohen also talked about past lawsuits, like one against Univision.

"it's going to be my absolute pleasure to serve you with a 500 million dollar lawsuit like... I did to Univision."

Listen here:
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