Fearing Trump's Slipperiness, Associates Created Evidence Against Him

[DonViejo]

By Allegra Kirkland | August 3, 2018 6:00 am

President Trump has more than a few characteristics that make him a challenging boss. He is mercurial, quick to turn on subordinates deemed insufficiently loyal, and has a slippery relationship with the truth.

Those traits help explain why so many of the President’s associates in business and government felt compelled to document their interactions with him.

Out of self-preservation, a desire to keep an accurate record, a lack of trust—or some combination of the three—everyone from former FBI Director James Comey to former Trump “pitbull” Michael Cohen created records of their encounters with Trump. These contemporaneous notes, official memos, and audio recordings will be invaluable evidence for prosecutors investigating whether Trump obstructed justice or engaged in other possible misconduct, former federal prosecutors tell TPM.

“If you have a recording or contemporaneous documentation of something that happened, it’s like a golden egg,” Ashlee McFarlane, former assistant chief in the fraud section of DOJ’s Criminal Division, told TPM.

“Oftentimes it’s more accurate than a later recalling of an event,” McFarlane added. “The fact that the person was prompted to record it shows a mindset of how they felt about the encounter. And people are less likely to fabricate something at the time, in the moment. They have less incentive to do that.”

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[dixiegrrrrl]

1. One of his ex-business lawyers said there always had to be 3 lawyers present when talking with Trump

" I wouldn't believe Trump if his tongue were notarized."

according to one of the bios of Trump I read.