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Sun Dec 16, 2018, 02:32 PM Dec 2018

HOLY SHIT! did anybody just hear Cohen's tape of Trump on MSNBC? [View all]

Trump and Cohen were talking about spending $150,000 to set up
an account to give to "our friend David" (Pecker??) and that Cohen
should talk with Trump's CFO Weisselberg about getting the money.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/13/big-question-looming-over-trump-just-got-bigger-what-is-allen-weisselberg-spilling-about/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ed25dd296822

But it also suggests dominoes that have yet to fall, and among those dominoes is one potentially huge one: Allen Weisselberg.

When Cohen released that tape of him and Trump talking about buying back the rights to McDougal’s story from AMI, Cohen mentioned how he had consulted with Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, about how to make it happen.

“I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, David [Pecker], you know, so that — I’m going to do that right away,” Cohen said, adding, “I’ve spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with …” before being interrupted.

Cohen then invoked Weisselberg again: “So I’m all over that. And I spoke to Allen about it, when it comes time for the financing, which will be. …”

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