Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

New Cohen Tape Surfaces a Bigger Trump Fish

Allen Weisselberg knows far more than the president’s former lawyer.

July 25, 2018 at 7:00 AM EDT

Corrected

July 25, 2018 at 9:18 AM EDT

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

Michael Cohen is not the man who knows all of Trump’s secrets.
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About two months before Election Day in 2016, Donald Trump and his former lawyer (and self-described “fixer”) Michael Cohen were chatting about how to convince a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal, to keep quiet about what she described as a long-term affair with the presidential candidate.

“We’ll have to pay,” Cohen said, according to a recording of the conversation that CNN obtained and broadcast Tuesday night.

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