Kellyanne Conway's husband just schooled Trump on the limits of attorney-client privilege

[kpete]

George Conway, the husband of top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, has given President Donald Trump a lesson in the limits of attorney-client privilege.

Responding to Trump’s Tuesday morning declaration that “attorney-client privilege is dead” in the wake of an FBI raid on lawyer Michael Cohen, Conway simply tweeted out a link to laws regarding obtaining search warrants for attorneys in the United States.

@realDonaldTrump
Attorney–client privilege is dead!

Link to tweet

@gtconway3d
https://www.justice.gov/usam/usam-9-13000-obtaining-evidence#9-13.420

Link to tweet

Specifically, the law states that “there are occasions when effective law enforcement may require the issuance of a search warrant for the premises of an attorney who is a subject of an investigation, and who also is or may be engaged in the practice of law on behalf of clients.”

As part of the process for obtaining a warrant, the guidelines state that “the affidavit in support of the search warrant may attach any written instructions or, at a minimum, should generally state the government’s intention to employ procedures designed to ensure that attorney-client privileges are not violated.”



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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/kellyanne-conways-husband-just-schooled-trump-limits-attorney-client-privilege/

[lark]

1. You can't "school" someone who is willfully ignorant.

drumpf doesn't give a shit about the law except trying to hide from it, he will always just lie and lie, regardless of the truth. He's Faux Snooze on self-serving fascist steroids.

[iluvtennis]

12. Exactly...thinks he is above the law.

[BadgerMom]

17. And, really, he has every reason to think so.

He has lived a life filled with lies, fraud, cheating and criminality but has escaped consequences. It seems like extreme white male privilege. Kids are sent to prison for relatively minor infractions but he has been allowed to act illegally his entire life. It seems as though much of the trauma we are experiencing as a nation today could have been avoided if he had been stopped and prosecuted decades ago. Republicans always tout their law and order bona fides except when it comes to wealthy white miscreants. If/when we awaken from this nightmare I hope LE can be made to refocus. He should have been prosecuted. This could have been avoided.

Sorry. Rant over.

[Honeycombe8]

2. So the investigators have to use procedures so as NOT to abuse atty-client privilege.

That's a bummer.

Whatever evidence they get, it will be attacked as being, or using or relying on, attorney-client privilege, and therefore that evidence should be tossed out. It'll be a tough fight.

Bit it WILL be a fight, if there's anything there. Cohen is no longer Trump's personal attorney. Bwahahahaha.

[Cha]

3. Wow.. I wonder

what sewerat Barbie thinks of her hubby's tweet?

George just trying to be helpful.

[ecstatic]

4. LMFAO! How much longer will Kelly C. have that job?

Or does trump have double standards when it comes to the political ideology of husbands vs wives?

Trump tweets falsehoods about wife of retiring FBI Deputy Director McCabe

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-mccabe-trump-20171223-story.html

[flying_wahini]

15. I thought Kelly Anne worked for Cambridge analytical and that gang.

Not sure, just what I read somewhere.

[bullwinkle428]

5. He'll probably delete this shortly. Didn't he do that just a few weeks ago,

after something mildly critical of something Chump-related?

[MontanaMama]

8. I believe he did tweet at Dotard

a couple weeks ago. How odd! I wonder what dinner conversation is like at the Conway house?

[smirkymonkey]

13. For some reason, I have the feeling that Mr. Conway isn't very fond of

Mr. Trump. Just a hunch. This isn't the first time he's done this.

[barbtries]

6. their marriage must be very strange. nt

[jmbar2]

7. He may be trying to lay the groundwork for KellyAnn's post-Trump redemption

It is a very interesting dynamic....

Her reputation is totally destroyed by consistent lying to the public in his service. Perhaps the husband is trying to signal to the world that they can discern truth, but it's just her job to lie.

Who would hire this woman after Trump is removed? Career over.

[barbtries]

9. it's hard for me to imagine,

being a patriotic American wedded to the truth, that a man who sees Trump for what he is and recognizes his criminality and the threat he represents to our democracy, could be married to her.

when i went to DC for Stewart and Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity, I took a picture of the backs of a couple pushing a stroller with a baby in it. the guy's shirt said "I love my conservative wife" and her's said "I love my liberal husband." i thought that was very sweet - my own parents were the same way.

but Conway goes much further than being conservative. She lies constantly to prop up the worst president this country has ever been cursed with. married to that? does not compute for me.

[FakeNoose]

14. My guess is she doesn't believe any of it

... which makes her a phony who would do anything for a paycheck. She lies and brown-noses when she's in front of Trump, but behind his back it's a completely different story. If Cheeto ever finds out, THAT's how she'll get fired, not because of anything her husband does.

Don't forget that the reason Conway came to work on Trump's campaign was that Robert Mercer wanted her there. She worked for Mercer first.

[barbtries]

18. yeah.

she's the worst kind of low. cynical as hell and doesn't give a rat's ass about the country, the planet, or anything but herself

[JHB]

19. Tobacco company lawyer, quietly part of the Paula Jones team...

...it's not so mysterious once you realize who he is.

[JI7]

16. This is exactly what it is.

[Grins]

10. Trying to get back to NJ with his lovely bride, is he...? N/M

[DesertRat]

11. George Conway retweeted this:

Link to tweet