Trump: 'Attorney-Client Privilege Is Dead!'
Source: The Daily Beast
President Trump has declared attorneyclient privilege is dead the morning after the FBI raided the offices of his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Officials in New York are said to have seized documents relating to the $130,000 payout to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in a raid the president has called a disgrace and an attack on our country. Tweeting Tuesday morning, the president said the raid marked the end of attorney-client privilegewhich keeps communications between an attorney and clients secretand said that it was an unfair targeting of his personal lawyer. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!! blasted the president in a second tweet.
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dlk
(11,566 posts)Trump conveniently omitted that fact, which he is fully aware of.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)like "when the attorney and client have conspired together to commit crimes".
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)An attorney-client relationship, in most instances, must contain "consideration"---the attorney must be paid money. Considering Trump, who knows if that deadbeat paid Cohen?
Regardless, Cohen said *he* paid $130,000 of his own money. How can there be privilege when Trump did not pay Cohen?
rsdsharp
(9,182 posts)The privilege attaches when an attorney-client relationship is formed. If I represent a client pro bono, and no money is ever exchanged, there is still privilege between us.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)with rants and incantations against the rule of law and the judicial system
I would bet many public events of the last few months are tied together in some manner to which the public is not yet privy
It's a witch's brew rather than a witch hunt
Javaman
(62,530 posts)he is now basically cornered.
be ready for the truly insane shit to happen.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)a note to cheetolini - if you want to keep your attorney/client privileges with your attorney, don't include him in your shenanigans.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Bobby 3-Sticks.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)on Law and Order.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)gordianot
(15,238 posts)All over shutting up a porn star in what may be the sleaziest attorney action in American history.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)He's pealing away each layer of Trump's onion. He's isolating Trump. Soon, Trump will stand alone.
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)Your Waiter Tonight
(35 posts)But your presidency is on life-support.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)who don't expect their attorney to commit crimes for them. You got yourself a criminal for an attorney and now it's coming back to bite you. I cannot wait until he snitches on you.
dembotoz
(16,806 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Seems just like the other day another client was raging...
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/27/nyregion/judge-disqualifies-gotti-s-lawyer-from-representing-him-at-trial.html|]
wobblie
(61 posts)We killed attorney client privilege during the terrorism trials. Even before we began recording conversations at Gitmo, we had stripped that right from attorneys in the Sheik trial of the first world trade center bombing. Only fools think they still have rights.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)November 2018 cannot get fast enough
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Trump said specifically that he had no knowledge of Cohen's payment to her (and, of course, The Donald would not lie about such a thing). Now, I don't know about New York, but in Illinois, where I live, for a lawyer to do such a thing without his client's knowledge would be grounds for disbarment. So, assuming that Cohen was acting properly, he did not give that money in his capacity as Trump's attorney. Thus, attorney-client privilege does not apply.