campaign. back in march, i spoke with caring mcdougal about how the deal came about, where ami bought her story of an affair with mr. trump only to kill it. why do you think they quashed the story? back then or now? now. they they didn t want to hurt him. you think it s because of a personal relationship with the guy who runs ami is friends with donald trump? correct. do you think i mean, you wouldn t know this, but do you think donald trump would have been aware of of this deal? that they were doing him that they were allegedly doing him this favor? i wouldn t know, but based on what i m learning as we re all learning together as we read and one of the big complaints with why i think my contract is illegal is because his attorney was talking to my attorney so you re saying donald trump s personal attorney, michael cohen correct. was speaking to keith
to cohen, is that these payments could very well just be the tip of the iceberg in terms of any other, in cohen s words, dirty deeds, that he and the president may have been involved with. of course. you can only go back to cohen s own secret recording where he talks about all of the things, all of the stuff that david pecker would need to know and resolve in case he was hit by a bus, for example. right, they were talking about getting all of it away from david pecker. they were worried if david peck e as trump said, hit by a bus, who knows where the files would end up? all of the stuff doesn t include simply one particular payment to karen mcdougal. you can obviously david pecker also has immunity to discuss things as part of ami as well, so you can look at this scenario and think to yourself, well, obviously tip of the iceberg includes all the information that ami would have provided to the team and sdny that would incentivize them to not prosecute ultimately.
deal came about, where am ix bought her story of an affair with mr. trump only to kill it. why do you think they squashed the story? back then or now? now. they they didn t want to hurt him. you think it s because of a personal relationship with the guy who runs ami is friends with donald trump? correct. do you think i mean, you wouldn t know this, but do you think donald trump would have been aware of of this deal? that they were doing him taty they were allegedly doing him this favor? i wouldn t know, but based on what i m learning as we re all learning together as we read and one of the big complaints with why i think my contract is illegal is because his attorney was talking to my attorney so you re saying donald trump s
resolve in case he was hit by a bus, for example. right, they were talk bing abo about getting all of it away from david pecker. they were worried if david peck e as trump said, hit by a bus, who knows where the files would end up? all of the stuff doesn t include simply one particular payment to karen mcdougal. you can obviously david pecker also has immunity to discuss things as part of ami as well, so you can look at this scenario and think to yourself, well, obviously tip of the iceberg includes all the information that ami would have provided to the team and sdny that would incentivize them to not prosecute ultimately. that decision is not made lightly by prosecutors. they would have to have a comprehensive view of all information that was available where they said, you know mwhat i m going to foreclose my opportunity to prosecute you knowing full well cohen pled guilty to something you agreed to orchestrate in some way and we found that criminal and asked for jail time. it
involvement and, perhaps, the president s in facilitating this payment, in getting it done in time for the campaign, that made certainly cohen s was criminal and trump s involvement is certainly highly suspicious and, perhaps, prosecutable. but, jeff, in the statement of facts that ami has now signed off on, there was a meeting between pecker and cohen and i believe it was described as another person, at least one more person from the trump campaign. so other people were aware of this in the trump campaign, that this is not just specific to karen mcdougal or stormy daniels, this is an overall desire by ami to help out the candidate, donald trump. and that person who was with the campaign may have been committing an illegal act by getting involved by getting involved with this. you know, the whole point, it