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(60,536 posts) Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:39 AM Apr 2018

Stormy Daniels lawyer to Trump: What's dead is using attorney-client privilege to hide illegal acts

Source: The Hill

BY LUIS SANCHEZ - 04/10/18 09:01 AM EDT

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti said on Tuesday morning that attorney-client privilege is not dead, as President Trump had stated in a tweet earlier in the day.

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“What is dead is using the privilege to hide illegal acts,” Avenatti wrote in a tweet. “And that has been dead for a long time.”

Earlier on Tuesday morning, President Trump tweeted that “attorney-client privilege is dead” after it was reported that the FBI raided the office and hotel room of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen on Monday.

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Avenatti said that the FBI raid shows that Cohen and Trump “are in a lot of trouble” and argued that the raid was part of a “search for the truth” and not a witch hunt.

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Stormy Daniels lawyer to Trump: What's dead is using attorney-client privilege to hide illegal acts (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP

Lloyd Bentsen lapfog_1 Apr 2018 #1

Now that's a good one! n/m machoneman Apr 2018 #2

Yup. And Trump is no Dan Quale. FailureToCommunicate Apr 2018 #4

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Mahalo for Mrs Betty Bowers, Goth! Cha Apr 2018 #10

Laurence Tribe, who knows his law: muriel_volestrangler Apr 2018 #6

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1. Lloyd Bentsen

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:42 AM

Apr 2018

"I use the attorney-client privilege. I know the attorney-client privilege. The attorney-client privilege is a friend of mine. And you, sir, have no attorney-client privilege!"