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A Slush Fund for Playmates, an Oligarch, and the President?

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jacob Weisberg is joined by Virginia Heffernan and ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger to discuss the latest Michael Cohen story surrounding his Delaware LLC. Be sure to join Trumpcast Live in Brooklyn on May 30th! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. It's another big news day in Trumpworld. I'm gathered

1:17.1

here with Virginia Heffernon. Hi, Jacob. So we've got a document dump from Michael

1:22.8

Avonotti. Michael Avonotti has been hinting, I think, that there would be a connection between

1:28.7

Stormy Daniels and the Russia story. I always thought the connection was just Trump's

1:33.9

proclivity to pay blackmail. But there now seems to be some evidence that it's more than

1:38.9

that. Right. It's not just Stormy Daniels as some kind of precedent for the truth of the

1:43.0

steel dossier, the salacious allegations in the steel dossier. But now we have the involvement

1:49.2

of an actual Russian oligarch connected possibly to the Stormy Daniels payout. I mean, this is

1:58.9

I just my head is if my head hadn't already blown off my shoulders, it would be blowing

2:03.3

off my shoulders again. But I'm just sitting here before you just a woman without a head.

2:07.2

It's, yeah, well, your head is still attached. I'm pleased to tell listeners since I can't

2:12.4

see what's going on here in the studio. But yes, oligarch, Stormy Daniels, American corporations,

2:18.8

all in one Michael Cohen bank account, these stories do seem to be coming together.

2:24.5

Jesse Eisenger is going to be here from proplica to explain a to us. And I'm looking forward

2:29.2

to getting some clarity. We'll be back with Jesse Eisenger in just a moment right after

2:33.8

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