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Exclusive: CNN obtains secret Trump-Cohen tape.
COHEN: "I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David." [Likely a reference to AMI head David Pecker]
TRUMP: "What financing?"
COHEN: "We'll have to pay."
#Maddow cnn.it/2OdFMRL
Secret Trump-Cohen tape: Michael Cohen says, "I've spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up."
→ Weisselberg is Trump Org's longtime accountant [now CFO], who also knew about the LLC's used to funnel Stormy Daniels' payments.
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Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg [named on Trump-Cohen tape re McDougal hush money] has known since 2017 the details of how Michael Cohen was being reimbursed for the Stormy Daniels' payment through $35K/month payments from Trump's personal trust.
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CORRECTION: Manafort told Kilimnik to pass TRUMP polling data not to Deripaska but to Ukrainian oligarchs Rinat Akhmetov & Serhiy Lyovochkin, who funneled $50K to Trump's inaugural & is business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss Mogilevich].
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FYI: Rick Gates testified that between 2010-2013, former Yanukovych CoS Serhiy Lyovochkin funneled $42M to Paul Manafort. At the time, Lyovochkin was business partner to Dmytro Firtash [top-tier comrade of Russian mob boss, Semion Mogilevich].
#Maddow kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
In his plea deal, Sam Patten, US business partner of Konstantin Kilimnik [Russian GRU associate of Manafort & Gates] who worked for Cambridge Analytica in 2014, said a Ukranian oligarch [Serhiy Lyovochkin] funneled $50K into Trump's inaugural fund.
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Trump campaign chair & deputy chair Paul Manafort & Rick Gates conspired with Russian GRU-linked Konstantin Kilimnik to pass internal polling data to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, whose private jet Kilimnik flew on to meet Manafort in AUG 2016.
#Maddow nyti.ms/2H0YLzj
In AUG 2016, after Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort's told him to share internal polling data with Putin ally Oleg Deripaska, Russian GRU-linked Kilimnik used Deripaska's jet to meet Manafort in NY – soon after he met with Deripaska in Moscow .
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In SEP 2016, weeks after Kilimnik flew to NY on Oleg Deripaska's private jet to meet Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, Deripaska secretly met with Russia's deputy prime minister Prikhodko & briefed him on how to "solve the issue with America."
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Leonid Teyf, a wealthy Russian national living in NC accused of money laundering and plotting a murder-for-hire, has ties to Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin ["Putin's chef"], who was indicted by Mueller election tampering.
HT @WendySiegelman #Maddow bit.ly/2FhkrVs
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Individual-1 admits to what SDNY alleged, Cohen acted "in coordination and at the direction of" him.
Cohen’s recording shows Trump knew of specific acts SDNY says are part of the crime: cnn.com/2018/07/24/pol…
SDNY: National Enquirer agrees to buy McDougal’s story for $150,000 (August).
Trump: “So, what do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?” (September)
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Here's the problem with Trump defending his campaign finance violations as simply an effort to protect his family: If Trump wanted to spare his children the ugly details of his divorce from their mother, wouldn't he want those files to stay secret forever? 1/21
If he paid his sex partners to keep their affairs secret because he didn't want to hurt his wife's feelings, wouldn't he want that information to stay secret forever?2/21
This Trump/Cohen tape opens with Trump on the phone.
Trump: "Let me know what's happening, okay?"
"Oh."
"Oh!"
"Maybe because of this it would be better if you didn't go. You know, maybe because of THIS- for that one- you know, at this point you can just get rid of this"
3/21
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BOMBSHELL: Donald Trump Played Central Role in Hush Payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, Contradicting Earlier Denials wsj.com/articles/donal…
"Federal prosecutors have gathered evidence of president’s participation in transactions that violated campaign-finance laws"
The WSJ found that Mr. Trump was involved in or briefed on nearly every step of the agreements. He directed deals in phone calls and meetings with Michael Cohen and others. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan has gathered evidence of Trump’s participation in the transactions.
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What the fuck just happened today?

⚡️ Day 552: All the stuff.

whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/07/25/day…
1/ A federal judge ruled for a second time that Trump must face a lawsuit accusing him of improperly profiting from his Washington hotel

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2/ Michael Cohen's lawyer leaked one of the recordings of his conversations with Trump

cnn.com/2018/07/24/pol…
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It still makes *no* sense for Cohen to be speaking of the head of AMI (David) rather than Trump's alias (David) when he says he needs a shell corp for the "transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, David." What info "regarding" the AMI head would Cohen be nervous about?
2/ There's an explanation for this: the tape makes clear Cohen and Trump had been having an ongoing discussion about making a payment to AMI. It's possible the first reference to David is to Trump's alias (David Dennison) while a later reference to "he" is indeed to David Pecker.
3/ The assumption being made by media is that because a later "he" in the conversation seems to refer to David Pecker of AMI, so must an earlier reference to "David." But Trump and Cohen were in an ongoing shorthand conversation, and knew two Davids were involved in the AMI deal.
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🛎InconvenientTruth🛎

Watts concludes: “Without the Russian influence effort, I believe Trump would not have even been within striking distance of Clinton on Election Day.”

That is the inconvenient truth the Putin GOP won’t admit.

Heads up! DEM voters are angry & energized
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Broidy’s &25k & Tom Barrack’s $20k per mo payment to Gates highlights the way a small circle of Trump’s assoc’s aggressively marketed their inside access to Trump.

(Or is it 💰 laundering?)

There is more to this story - stay tuned.
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SS: “New filing in Butina case: DOJ says they already have “numerous witnesses” lined up to testify about Butina’s activities.”🍿

“Did thet think I was just going to roll over & die?”The Cohen vs. Trump battle ratchets up.

The House tilts toward the DEMs!
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