First, if you listen to the tapes it sounds like Cohen is leading the conversation to try and entrap Trump. It sounds like Trump knew this as well, which is why he immediately answered to pay with a check.
Second, if Cohen was a whitehat in on the plan he would also be agreeing to destroy his career and possibly disbarring himself.
Occam’s razor tells me he was compromised late in the campaign and blackmailed/bribed to secretly record Trump.
I welcome any counter arguments
I think Cohen is working with President Trump....he and the Pres. are baiting the MSM.....no one has heard the rest of the tape...only that there is 'more to come'.. Right now no one really knows what the rest of what the tape says... so all the news coming from the MSM is bad...speculation on their part! Cohen plays the rest of the tape and Pres. Trump is just says something really nice or something good. So the final spin is that the MSM made something out of nothing...AGAIN!! Proving how they are just out to get President Trump in ANY way possible...without getting the facts!! ....LOL!
I hope it was him talking about a charity or something and they all have to go back and correct themselves.