Calling Alan
Transcript of a telephone audio tape found during the August 8 raid at Mar-a-Lago
The transcript minus the redactions, follows.
(Monday, August 8, 2:03am)
Heh, Alan, it’s Donald.
Yeah, I know it’s late — the clock says 2:00am — and I am sorry to disturb you during your vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. But I need your help. Something has come up. It’s urgent.
I mean it this time.
After I finished a round of golf in Bedminster this afternoon, I learned that the FBI had a warrant to seize documents from Mar-a-Lago.
They’re legally mine, Alan.
(Redacted conversation)
Damn them to hell! Not you, Alan, THE FBI. (shouting) The Dark State. The Democrat hooligans.
Whaddya’ mean calm down? Dammit Alan, I’ve taken my metoprolol! They’re taking everything. They’re taking, you know, the stuff, you and I agreed didn’t exist.
Whaddya’ mean what are we going to do? I’m talking to you, my “after daylight” lawyer. Are you listening? You gotta listen to me Alan. I need you to do something for me. I need you to say…
(Redacted conversation)
That’s all. Just this little thing, I need you to do Alan. You know the number, I gave it to you last month.
B-O-B-B. Call her, she’ll know it’s you.
Whaddya’ mean did I make copies? What kind of question is that? Who knows, what I did? Like I said, Alan, if you had been listening, I didn’t know about this until the phone call to the golf club.
My locker room, yes, Alan, of course, my locker room.
Yes, that phone number. What is this? Are you interrogating me, Alan?
(Redacted conversation)
So, I just want you to say that there is nothing, nothing in those documents that they’re gonna’ seize…
No, not those documents. Dammit, Alan, are you awake? Listen! NOTHING, I MEAN THERE IS NOTHING. (shouting)
(Pause, then sound of Ivanka calling out in the background, ‘Is there anything wrong?’)
No, nothing wrong. Go back to bed.
(To Alan in calmer tone) You know what to say.
(Redacted conversation)
Well, there isn’t, is there? See, you know, Alan. You always know.
No, you won’t be disbarred! You’re not licensed in Florida, are you? How can you be disbarred? You know what to do. You always do.
Call me when you’re finished.
Thanks. Best to your family, too.
Alan, still there?
Yeah.
Alan. Remember: you always know.
(Tape ends.)
August 30
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