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- CNN unearthed video footage showing Trump's current lawyer saying in 2018 that the Stormy Daniels hush-money payment could be a "real problem" for Trump.
- The lawyer, Joe Tacopina, also said the payment could have violated federal election laws.
- He's struck a markedly different tone since becoming Trump's lawyer, saying Trump is the victim of an extortion plot.
A defense attorney representing Donald Trump in the Manhattan district attorney's probe into a hush-money payment made to Stormy Daniels said several years ago that the payment could pose a "real problem" for Trump.