Jurors heard a recording in which Donald Trump and his then-lawyer and “fixer,” Michael Cohen, discuss payments to Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model who claimed to have had an affair with The Apprentice host.
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The recording was made by Cohen in September of 2016 — and first reported on by CNN in 2018. In it, Trump and Cohen discussed buying the rights to McDougal’s story.

“I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David,” Cohen said, referring to David Pecker, then-CEO of American Media, the tabloid publisher that bought McDougal’s story for $150,000 with the intention of burying it.

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