Reveal Trump audio on payments to the old model

Washington.- Michael Cohen, former personal advocate and "man for everything" of President Donald Trump, secretly recorded a conversation with the tycoon in which, two months before the 2016 elections, they talked about payments to be made to a model to silence an extra-marital affair, according to the New York Times and confirmed by several American media.

The material remained in the hands of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after the registration of federal agents on April 9. Cohen offices and other properties, looking for evidence of a possible violation of federal election financing laws with this payment and similar others.

The existence of this record will clarify whether the payout for various women, with the aim of buying his silence and not revealing stories about Trump's extra-marital affairs in a Crucial phase of the elections, was part of a strategy that the mogul I did not know The recording picks up the case of Karen McDougal, ex-Playboy model, who says having had a relationship with the Republican after Melania Trump, current first lady, had her son Barron, in 2006.

A decade later, and with the mogul as a presidential candidate, the old model sold his story for $ 150,000 to the magazine The National Enquirer, but it has never been published; Which, as the New York Times explains, is known as "catch and kill," is a technique that is not public

Hope Hicks, former spokesman for the Republican candidate of the time, said that fake. "David Pecker, the president of Enquirer's proprietary company, is a friend of Trump and, as he published The New Yorker months ago, it's not the first time that he buys a story to bury him and defend the tycoon in a compromising position at Cohen. "Persecuted for justice and abandoned by Trump, the versions that could break the pact with the tycoon grow.

One of the president's personal attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, confirmed that Cohen and the president spoke of payments, but assured that ever

"Nothing in this conversation suggests that he was informed at the time of the meeting. beforehand, "he told the newspaper, noting that it was" exculpatory evidence "because, as he explained, Trump had ordered Cohen to I decided to make the payment to McDougal, I would do it with a check for me to be registered.

The McDougal Case It's not the only one.Federal agents are also on the trail of a more media-like case, that of former porn actress Stormy Daniels, who received a payment to silence a relationship with Trump. .

Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, has assured several media, among them MSNBC, that the recording that has been made public is not the only one. "There are several registrations and our position is that they should be public," he said.