A composite image of former President Donald Trump, attorney Michael Cohen, and porn star Stormy Daniels.
Donald Trump, attorney Michael Cohen, and Stormy Daniels.
  • Defense tapes played in court Thursday have been posted to SoundCloud by Law360.
  • They are recordings of 2018 phone calls between the two lawyers who struck the 2016 hush-money deal.
  • They suggest an alternate reality to the DA's — where Trump is more victim than mastermind. 

On the witness stand Thursday, Stormy Daniels' lawyer, Keith Davidson, told jurors that it was easy to tell when Michael Cohen was recording their phone calls.

Cohen would suddenly sound "very structured."

"Ordinarily, he was sort of all over the place," Davidson testified of Donald Trump's fixer-turned-nemesis.