What We Now Know About Manafort, Cohen and ‘Individual-1’

Trump, Inc.

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Don, Trump, News, Business, Jared, Ivanka, Jr, Politics, Business News, Government, Eric

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🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Court filings by prosecutors last week shined a light on the business lives of two men who worked get Donald Trump elected president: former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Trump, Inc co-hosts Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein talk with Franklin Foer of The Atlantic about what the documents show -- and the further questions they raise. Among those questions:- What exactly was Manafort’s connection to a business partner who some in the intelligence committee believe to be a Russian intelligence asset? - Why did Russian officials approach the Trump campaign about potential “political synergy”? - How much did Trump know about Cohen’s coordination of hush money payments to two women who alleged they had affairs with the now-president?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this Trump Inc. podcast extra.
0:08.4	Trump Inc. is an open investigation from ProPublica and WNYC into the Trump family business.
0:14.2	I'm Ilyah Maritz from WNYC.
0:16.9	This week, Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will be sentenced in a New York
0:20.6	courtroom on a raft of charges including tax evasion, illegal campaign donations, and lying
0:25.7	to Congress.
0:27.3	Also this week, a judge will consider Paul Manafort's future, now that he is apparently
0:31.7	in breach of a cooperation agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller.
0:35.9	Manafort of course was Donald Trump's campaign chairman and was convicted of bank fraud and
0:39.9	tax fraud.
0:41.6	Right now we've got my Trump Inc. co-host Andrea Bernstein here.
0:44.8	Hi Andrea.
0:45.8	Hey.
0:46.8	Andrea and I have spent a lot of time tracing the twists and turns in Michael Cohen's very
0:51.2	interesting life.
0:52.9	Also here via Skype, we have Franklin Ford, staff writer at the Atlantic.
0:56.6	He has paid closer attention to Paul Manafort's career than any journalist I know of.
1:01.4	Hi Frank.
1:02.4	God help me.
1:03.4	Are you guys feeling as overwhelmed as I am with all of the information coming at us all
1:09.5	at once about these two men?
1:11.3	Yes.
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