Another day, another story Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had to kill about a Trump family member having a scandalous affair.
This time, the Wall Street Journal reports that Cohen killed an Us Weekly story being prepared in 2013 on Donald Trump Jr.’s alleged affair with pop singer Aubrey O’Day.
Don Jr., President Donald Trump’s adult son, was a year earlier a judge on Celebrity Apprentice while O’Day was a contestant.
Here is how the US Weekly staff characterized their interactions with Cohen:
“We were all on speakerphone and huddled around the phone,” this person said. “He was just one of these New York characters where he was just like swearing at us and totally over-the-top threatening.”
The magazine’s staff didn’t believe it was a big story that would be worth a legal fight and had a good working relationship with the elder Mr. Trump on stories related to the TV show “The Apprentice,” so they dropped the story.
So verbal abuse and threats, that sounds like the Michael Cohen method.
Speaking of Michael Cohen, his lawyers are flipping their proverbial shit about that FBI raid.
Courtesy of ABC News:
Lawyers for President Donald Trump's personal attorney say investigators "took everything" during raids last week on his residence and office.
The lawyers wrote in a court filing Monday that the raids a week ago to gather evidence from attorney Michael Cohen were "completely unprecedented."
They said investigators seized more than a dozen electronic devices and other items including documents and data unrelated to the probable cause upon which the search warrants were based.
The letter demanded Trump and Cohen's lawyers be allowed to decide which items seized are protected by attorney-client privilege before criminal prosecutors see them.
Gee I wonder if that bit about Junior's extramarital affair is part of what got scooped up?
The hearing over this is scheduled for today, and rumor has it that a Miss Stormy Daniels may be in attendance.
Should be a fun day for one and all.
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