In the middle of Donald Trump’s campaign against Hillary Clinton, a Playboy model sold the rights to her story about her affair with Trump to the National Enquirer for $150,000 – and when Trump learned what happened he sat down with his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to discuss buying those rights from the Enquirer so the story would never be published.

Two months later, just before the election, when the Wall Street Journal broke the story about the Enquirer’s $150,000 payment to Karen McDougal, reporters descended on Trump asking, Had he had an affair with McDougal? Did he know about the Enquirer’s payment to her?

Trump weighted his choices and had his campaign answer “No” to both questions. We have no knowledge of any of this, Hope Hicks told the Wall Street Journal.

That denial collapsed a few days ago when it turned out Michael Cohen had secretly recorded his conversation with Trump and the tape ended up in Robert Mueller’s hands.

On Twitter Trump immediately tore into Cohen, and Rudy Giuliani claimed on Fox and CNN that, somehow, the tape showed Trump had done nothing legally wrong.

But the question isn’t breaking laws – it’s honesty. Cohen’s tape proved Trump misled, intentionally – so can you trust Trump now when he says, ‘No President has been tougher on Russia than me,’ or ‘The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong?’