The feds pulled logs of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen\u2019s phone calls.<\/b>
\nCorrection: A previous version of this article cited an NBC News report saying federal prosecutors had wiretapped the phones of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and recorded at least one phone call between him and the White House. NBC News has since issued a correction to say that prosecutors had actually taken the far more modest step of pulling Cohen\u2019s phone logs. The article has been updated with the corrected information.
Federal investigators pulled the phone call logs of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump\u2019s longtime lawyer and business associate.
NBC News reports that the feds obtained what\u2019s called a \u201cpen register\u201d of Cohen\u2019s phone calls. It\u2019s less intrusive than a wiretap, according to former US Attorney Preet Bharara, since investigators can\u2019t listen in on a phone call\u2019s content. \u201cBasically it\u2019s a real-time log of calls,\u201d he tweeted on Thursday.
Cohen is currently under investigation for a $130,000 hush money payment he made to porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claims she had an affair with Trump years ago. Trump denies he had an affair with Daniels, but he confirmed on Thursday that he did in fact know about the payment and had actually paid Cohen back \u2014 something Trump had previously denied.
This only adds to Cohen\u2019s woes. Prosecutors already revealed they\u2019ve looked into many of Cohen\u2019s private email accounts. Now it turns out they\u2019ve been tracking who he\u2019s been talking to on the phone. NBC News also reported that Rudy Giuliani, Trump\u2019s newest lawyer, found out that Trump had called Cohen just days after the FBI raid, prompting Giuliani to immediately tell Trump never to call Cohen again out of fear the feds might have a wiretap on Cohen\u2019s phone.
Cohen was Trump\u2019s fixer, as the Daniels saga illustrates. In effect, Cohen knows many, if not all, of Trump\u2019s deepest, darkest secrets \u2014 which is why Giuliani worries that Cohen might flip during the investigation and testify against the president.
But last month, Cohen said he\u2019d invoke his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination, meaning he won\u2019t answer questions from prosecutors. So it seems both the content of Cohen\u2019s calls \u2014 and his actual words \u2014 will be kept from investigators for now.<\/p>\n

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