So El Presidente had a meeting with three of his closest advisors this morning - he called in to "FOX & Friends".
After telling everyone it was Melania's birthday (nice way to spend it, moron), in the span of 20 excruciating minutes, Trump admitted:
1.That Cohen had represented him in the Stormy Daniels payoff — a fact he’d previously claimed no knowledge of;
2. That he knew about the payoff, but that it was fine because it didn’t come from campaign funds;
3. That Cohen’s legal representation of him was minimal, meaning very little of what was seized in the FBI raid of Cohen’s office can be privileged; and, just for good measure,
4. That he’s considering intervening in the Justice Department to put an end to the Mueller investigation.
Appearing at the same time on "Morning Joe", Daniels' attorney Michael Avenatti, once he stopped laughing in glee, noted that Trump just confirmed what he and his client had been claiming all along:
"Another gift from the heavens on this case. They keep coming. I don’t know how I’ve fallen into such good luck in this case, but I’m gonna take it! Joe, that’s a very damaging … hugely damaging admission by the president. Because, according to what he said on Air Force One a few weeks ago, he didn’t know anything about the agreement, he didn’t know anything about the payment, Michael Cohen went off and did this on a lark, and Mr. Trump knew nothing about it. We now find out that that’s bogus."
And pretty much immediately after the segment, the SDNY attorney in the Matter of Cohen dashed off a letter to Judge Kimba Wood, who is overseeing the case. You know all those documents that got seized in Cohen's office, and how he's been claiming "Attorney-Client Privilege" vis-a-vis Hannity and Trump in an effort to keep the Feds from looking too closely at them? Check out this footnote, relating to #3 above:
As the Court is aware, after originally stating that the Government seized “thousands, if not millions,” of pages of privileged documents, Cohen subsequently identified three current clients. Of those three clients, one, Sean Hannity, has since said that “Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees.” Another, President Trump, reportedly said on cable television this morning that Cohen performs “a tiny, tiny little fraction” of his overall legal work. These statements by two of Cohen’s three identified clients suggest that the seized materials are unlikely to contain voluminous privileged documents, further supporting the importance of efficiency here.
(emphasis mine)
El Presidente also managed to note that he actually was in Moscow long enough for a "pee tape" to happen.
AND he ranted about James Comey for about six minutes. AND griped about all the "false accusations!" against the utterly-unqualified-for-the-position Ronny Jackson, his nominee to head the VA (during which he claimed that two members of the House of Representatives, Corey Lewandowski (Hope Hicks' boyfriend), and "Diamond & Silk" were all Senators), AND that CNN is "fake news" and they gave Hillary the debate questions back in 2016........
I really, really, do hope he lets Robert Mueller interview him.....