President Trump lashed out at his former attorney Michael Cohen on Twitter Saturday for recording their meetings regarding hush money payments to Playboy playmate Karen McDougal.
After chastising government officials for raiding Cohen’s office in April, Trump went after Cohen himself for recording their meetings and suggested it could be illegal.
“Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of,” he tweeted. “Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!”
[Opinion: Michael Cohen’s tape of Trump isn’t that big a deal – yet]
Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 21, 2018
On Friday, the New York Times reported that Cohen secretly recorded conversations with Trump about payments to a former Playboy model two months before the 2016 election. Trump’s current lawyer Rudy Giuliani confirmed the existence of the tape to the paper.
