NYT: Cohen taped Trump on payment to ex-Playboy model

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President Trump‘s longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen secretly taped a conversation he had with the president ahead of the 2016 election about paying a Playboy model who says she had an affair with Trump — and the FBI has the tape, according to an explosive new report in The New York Times.

The FBI seized the secret recording made by Cohen during a raid on his offices earlier this year, the Times reported Friday.

The Times reports that Cohen and Trump reportedly discussed a payment to Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who says she had a yearlong affair with Trump starting in 2006, shortly after he married now-first lady Melania Trump. The conversation took place two months ahead of the 2016 election.

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