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With release of a recording, Michael Cohen makes clear he's flipping on Trump

WASHINGTON - From the moment federal agents knocked on Michael Cohen's door in April, President Donald Trump's friends and foes have wondered whether the lawyer would flip and share incriminating information about his longtime client.

Whether Cohen, who faces a criminal investigation that could threaten his freedom and his ability to provide for his family, has sat down with prosecutors to formally offer his cooperation remains unknown. But that he has flipped is no longer in doubt.

Once given to florid pronouncements of loyalty toward Trump, Cohen is actively working to undermine the president, most notably on Tuesday evening, when he released a once-secret recording of a conversation the two men had shortly before the presidential election.

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