The hot-mic audio tape in which Donald Trump is heard boasting about grabbing women “by the p****” surfaced just one month before the 2016 election and sparked backlash against the then-candidate, although Donald Trump went on to defeat his former opponent, Hillary Clinton. Cohen, who was testifying Monday at Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case, explained how Melania Trump came up with the excuse to dismiss the embarrassing audio that was recorded in September 2005.
“The spin he wanted put on it was that this is locker room talk, something that Melania had recommended, or at least he told me that’s what Melania had thought it was and use that in order to get control over the story and to minimize its impact on him and his campaign,” Cohen said,Just before the November 2016 election, Donald Trump came out with a statement that called the audio “locker-room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago.
Cohen also testified on Monday that he had two phone calls with Donald Trump on Oct. 26, 2016, before Cohen went across the street to the bank to make the payment to Daniels’s attorney, Keith Davidson.
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