President Donald Trump is firing back at his onetime "fixer."
Trump tweeted out his disgust on Wednesday after attorneys for Michael Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer, released a recording of the pair.
"What kind of lawyer would tape a client? So sad!" the president wrote.
The tape, made two months before the 2016 presidential election, captures Trump and Cohen seemingly discussing how they would buy the rights to former Playboy model Karen McDougal's story about an alleged affair she had with Trump years earlier.
Trump has denied the dalliance and lawyers for the two men have said the payments ultimately were never made.
The audio also features the pair discussing other matters, including an attempt by The New York Times to unseal the divorce records from Trump's first marriage.
Lanny Davis, Cohen's attorney, provided CNN with the tape and said Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani had been "falsely disparaging" Cohen.
Giuliani says an expert has enhanced the muffled recording and claims the cleaned-up audio proves Trump was not trying to hide any potential payments.
Trump also suggested Wednesday that the tape cuts off when he was "presumably saying positive things" and that other clients and even reporters were taped by Cohen.
A similarly incredulous Trump lashed out in April after Cohen's home, hotel room and office were raided by the FBI. The tape released by Cohen's lawyers is one of 12 that investigators seized in the sweeping raid.
Trump at the time called the raid a "disgraceful situation" and an "attack on our country."
Cohen, who has come under public scrutiny over his role in payments to women who have alleged affairs with Trump, is reportedly under investigation for bank fraud and campaign finance violations.
