Michael Cohen testifies in hush money trial
The DA’s office played the audio that Cohen surreptitiously recorded of his conversation with Trump at a September 2016 meeting.
“Told you about Charleston. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, David, you know, so that — I’m going to do that right away,” Cohen is heard saying to Trump, who said, “Give it to me and get me a … “
Cohen said he had spoken to Allen Weisselberg “about how to set the whole thing up with funding.”
“So, what do we got to pay for this? One-fifty? Trump asked.
“Yes, and it’s all the stuff,” Cohen said. “All the stuff. Because … here, you never know where that company, you never know what he’s —”
Trump said, “Maybe he gets hit by a truck.”
“Correct,” Cohen said. “So, I’m all over that. And I spoke to Allen about it, when it comes time for the financing, which will be —”
“Listen, what financing?” Trump asked.
“We’ll have to pay him something” Cohen said.
“Pay with cash,” Trump said, to which Cohen replied, “No, no, no, no, no, I got it.”
“Check,” Trump said.
