LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump said on Wednesday [7-25-18] that it is ‘so sad’ that his longtime personal attorney recorded their private conversations, suggesting that audio released Tuesday [7-24-18] has been doctored to exclude ‘positive things’ that he was ‘presumably’ saying…In an interview with POLITICO, Davis scoffed at the president’s suggestion about the tapes being edited. ‘Of course they weren’t doctored,’ the Cohen attorney said. Trump’s social media post follows CNN’s Tuesday night publication of a recording of him speaking with his longtime attorney, Michael Cohen, about a payment intended to silence former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claims to have had an affair with the president. Trump has previously denied the affair and being aware of any payments to McDougal. It is unclear what other recordings, if they exist, with ‘other clients and many reporters’ Trump was referring to, although Cohen has also done legal work for Fox News host Sean Hannity and former Republican National Committee Deputy Finance Chair Elliott Broidy.”
-Louis Nelson, “Trump claims Cohen tape on Playboy model may have been doctored,” Politico, July 25, 2018 2:05 pm