president as trump departed for a weekend of golf journalist shirzad questions about the tape now in the possession of the f.b.i. . it was secretly recorded by his former lawyer michael cohen trump has now hit back on twitter saying it's inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client totally unheard of and perhaps illegal the good news is that your favorite president did nothing wrong the taped conversation is said to relate to karen mcdougal and next playboy model who says she had a year long affair with the president over a decade ago so we cite other quite frequently so dozens of times you were to go meet her dozens of times you were intimate. in the recording trump and cohn supposedly talk about a hush payment to mcdougal. the f.b.i. found the tape when it raided cohn's office in april he was known as trump's fixer for many years and it's not the only tape said to exist the tapes made by michael could be a gold mine for prosecutors because there are problems boys and that is the most powerful evidence in any trial. one of the president's one time closest aides could be his bigge