A recording of then-candidate Donald Trump talking about a payment to a woman who claimed theyd had an affair suggests Trumps team later lied about his knowledge of the payment.

The tape, first reported by The New York Times on Friday but not made public, reportedly features Trump speaking with his longtime attorney Michael Cohen about a payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal two months before the 2016 presidential election.

The recording was among the documents and items the FBI seized from Cohen during a raid of his New York office earlier this year.

McDougal, who claims she began an affair with Trump in 2006, sold her story to The National Enquirer in 2016 for $150,000. The Enquirer is owned by American Media Inc, whose CEO, David Pecker, is a friend of Trumps.

The tabloid sat on the story, preventing it from being made public in a practice known as catch and kill. The deal effectively ensured McDougals silence for the remainder of the presidential campaign.

Asked about the deal just days before the 2016 election, Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks told The Wall Street Journal : We have no knowledge of any of this.

Hicks also called McDougals claim that she had an affair with Trump totally untrue.

The White House did not immediately respond to HuffPosts request for comment.