Trump: 'Attorney-Client Privilege Is Dead!'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



President Trump has declared “attorney–client 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 privilege—which keeps communications between an attorney and clients secret—and 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]

1. Attorney-Client Privilege is only Dead When Crimes Have Been Committed

Trump conveniently omitted that fact, which he is fully aware of.

[PoliticAverse]

2. I'm sure criminal defense attorneys would have you modify your statement to something...

like "when the attorney and client have conspired together to commit crimes".

[Roy Rolling]

3. Financial Consideration

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]

20. You're confusing contract with privilege.

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]

4. His id sodden with guilt trying to blink away the fallout

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]

5. the flailings of the desperate.

he is now basically cornered.

be ready for the truly insane shit to happen.

[marble falls]

6. The same thing John Gotti said when the gov't went after his lawyer, Mike Cutler...

a note to cheetolini - if you want to keep your attorney/client privileges with your attorney, don't include him in your shenanigans.

[PJMcK]

9. You do know who convicted Gotti, right?

Bobby 3-Sticks.

[marble falls]

10. And RudyG.

[Cold War Spook]

15. I learned that

on Law and Order.

[marble falls]

16. Ba-Dink!!!!!

[gordianot]

7. Trump should have thought of this when he threw his attorney under the bus.

All over shutting up a porn star in what may be the sleaziest attorney action in American history.

[PJMcK]

8. Robert Mueller is like a cancer surgeon

He's pealing away each layer of Trump's onion. He's isolating Trump. Soon, Trump will stand alone.

[honest.abe]

11. Oh the drama!!

[Your Waiter Tonight]

12. Naw, Donny

But your presidency is on life-support.

[standingtall]

13. attorney client privilege is for clients

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]

17. ding ding ding ding and the winner is......

[Historic NY]

14. Another shoe falls..........

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]

18. People have no memory

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]

19. Hey sexual predator...................the RULE(S) of LAW is / are WORKING

November 2018 cannot get fast enough

[Gothmog]

21. From Betty Bowers

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[Fortinbras Armstrong]

22. In the specific example of Stormy Daniels,

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.

[Gothmog]

23. Former US Attorney Preet Bharara: "The likelihood that Michael Cohen is going to be charged is high

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