Subject: Re: Phillips, patience kids, plenty of time,
.....ah, for the good old days when a POTUS knew how to maintain plausible deniability when pondering how to, for example, prevent a tabloid exec from spilling the beans on a “catch and kill” story....

TRUMP: Give it to me and get me a [UNINTELLIGIBLE].

COHEN: And, I’ve spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with…

<Allen Weisselberg is the CFO of the Trump Organization, which implies that Trump’s company was involved in Cohen’s hush money efforts.>

TRUMP: So, what do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?

<AMI paid McDougal $150,000 for her story, a fact Trump appears to remember without prompting. Here Trump seems to be discussing paying AMI back for it.>

COHEN: … Funding ... Yes. Um, and it’s all the stuff.

TRUMP: Yeah, I was thinking about that.

COHEN: All the stuff. Because — here, you never know where that company — you never know what he’s —

TRUMP: Maybe he gets hit by a truck.

COHEN: Correct.


More locker room talk? Yeah, that's the ticket.