Trump speaks on tape of him and his lawyer trying to pay woman who claimed to have an affair with him

US President Donald Trump has denied a purported video which shows him and his former attorney trying to buy the rights to a story by a woman who said she had an affair with Trump.

Reacting to the video recorded by his former attorney Trump said it was “perhaps illegal” for a lawyer to record a client.

“Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of,” Trump tweeted, in an apparent reference to an FBI raid on the office of his former lawyer Michael Cohen in April.

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“Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favourite President did nothing wrong!” Trump added.

Trump has also been trying to contain the outcry and confusion following the recently staged summit with Putin in Helsinki.

The controversial leader is facing backlash over his failure to confront Putin concerning Russia’s 2016 U.S. election meddling.

Critics are even more miffed that Trump adopted his usual defiant posture two days after their Helsinki summit and called his detractors deranged.

 

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