Dejected Donald Trump flips out after learning Michael Cohen secretly recorded him and the FBI has the tapes

| 6:04 pm EDT July 20, 2018
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Donald Trump is shocked to learn that his longtime fixer Michael Cohen was secretly recording their incriminating conversations, making him perhaps the only person on earth who’s shocked at this new revelation. Trump sounds truly dejected at the fact that Cohen was doing this behind his back, which has now resulted in the FBI gaining possession of the tapes, as perhaps the reality is setting in for Trump that he is indeed hosed.

After the New York Times reported that the FBI has possession of a tape of Michael Cohen and Donald Trump discussing an illegal payoff to Karen McDougal during the election, Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani confirmed the tape’s authenticity. Giuliani then admitted to CNN that there are multiple such tapes of Trump and Cohen. According to CNN, when Trump learned that Cohen had been secretly recording him all along, Trump responded by saying “I can’t believe Michael would do this with me!”

It’s difficult to figure out how Donald Trump didn’t see this coming. He was ordering Michael Cohen to take illegal measures to make his various scandals go away, during a presidential election no less. Cohen had to have known that this all might come to light eventually, and if it did, he could use recordings of these discussions to sell out Trump and perhaps save himself.

Once again, Donald Trump has made the mistake of choosing to trust the wrong people. Michael Cohen was willing to commit crimes for him, but he wasn’t willing to do so without creating an insurance policy for himself in the process. In the end, Cohen didn’t even get to use the tapes as leverage, as the FBI simply seized them.