We Know The Quid — What Was The Quo?

NEW YORK - JUNE 10: Chairman and CEO of American Media David Pecker (C) and his wife Karen Pecker (L) and Playboy playmate Miss November 2001 Lindsey Vuolo (R) attends the 50th anniversary of the Playboy Club & ... NEW YORK - JUNE 10: Chairman and CEO of American Media David Pecker (C) and his wife Karen Pecker (L) and Playboy playmate Miss November 2001 Lindsey Vuolo (R) attends the 50th anniversary of the Playboy Club & Playboy Bunny at Juliet Supper Club on June 10, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Steve Mack/Getty Images) MORE LESS

August 30, 2018 10:33 a.m.

It now appears that the conversation Michael Cohen recorded with Donald Trump, and released last month to a frenzy, was about buying up all of the National Enquirer’s dirt on Trump. All of it, going back some 20 years. That’s according to the New York Times.

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