Trump launches bitter Twitter assault on lawyer Michael Cohen for 'illegal' recording...

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


Trump launches bitter Twitter assault on lawyer Michael Cohen for ‘illegal’ recording of incriminating conversations

TOM BOGGIONI
21 JUL 2018 AT 08:22 ET

President Donald Trump kicked off his Saturday morning by launching an attack on his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, for recording conversations the attorney had with the president — and that are now in the FBI’s hands.

Without naming Cohen, Trump bitterly complained, “Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!”

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[Farmer-Rick]

1. Favorite President???

Oh, he means little Putin.

[gibraltar72]

2. Of course he didn't Obama was a stand up guy.

[flibbitygiblets]

42. Yeah, why must trump constantly bring up Obama

We miss our favorite president so much!!! So rubbing it in, you orange sack of hooker piss!

[beachbum bob]

3. Typical trump,

Cohen was busted and served valid search warrant. As for recording, a simple google can show whether or not Cohen had a legal right to do it or not.

[7962]

33. google search is way too much work for trump. nt

[beachbum bob]

34. It's perfectly legal to do what Cohen did in New York,

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. Trump recorded conversations, but won't admit it. In NY, but did he in other states where illegal?

[djacq]

4. I heard on Progress Radio that it's legal in NY

[magicarpet]

12. If Orange Anus Mouth was not such a prevaricating liar...

.... maybe then Cohen would not have felt he needed to tape every conversation to prove to the liar every word out of his mouth is a lie. How can you legally protect someone's interests if they refuse to tell you the truth ?

[displacedtexan]

13. I learned that on The Good Wife.

New York law is 1 party consent. Chicago is 2 party consent.

[localroger]

17. When in doubt, assume 1-party consent

There are only a handful of 2-party consent states (where all parties on the line have to be aware of and consent to the recording). And if you wonder why it's legal almost everywhere, it's the cops -- 2-party consent makes it much harder to admit evidence from a CI wearing a wire.

[TexasBushwhacker]

41. Good point about evidence from an informer

Also, it would be hard to prove that someone had been making threatening phone calls if you couldn't tape. In my case, I got a former principal on tape blackballing me even though I had always gotten good evaluations.

[deminks]

5. Donnie saying "Look over there"

Changing the subject to this since it was his team that probably leaked the tape's existence in the first place.

[pazzyanne]

6. This guy's audacity knows no bounds!

Only in his delusional mind and the corrupted minds of his followers could he believe that he would ever be anyone's favorite pResident. Despicable!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Trump reduced to whining with embedded lies

So much winning. Nothing but downhill from here.

[Nero Mero]

8. In New York it's LEGAL to record other people

Without their consent. If the recordings were done in New York Trump Tower there’s nothing Trump can do about it.

[TheBlackAdder]

27. Yep. NY & NJ are both one-party consent states, wherever Cohen was. Fuck you, Trump... it's LEGAL!

[world wide wally]

9. Maria Butina's favorite president anyway

[Pachamama]

30. +1000

[Trust Buster]

10. That is if initially lying about knowing about it in the first place isn't wrong.

[Mc Mike]

11. "T Rump Blubbers"

Nothing worse than a whiny crying nazi.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Yeah, but a foreign government broke into our election system at Trump's invitation

July 27, 2016. And he still won't accept it, and doesn't defend our interests against the crooks.

Unheard of!!

[dalton99a]

15. Trump has a long history of secretly recording calls, according to former associates

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-has-a-long-history-of-secretly-recording-calls-according-to-former-associates/2017/05/12/b302b038-372d-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html
Trump has a long history of secretly recording calls, according to former associates
By Marc Fisher | May 12, 2017

Throughout Donald Trump’s business career, some executives who came to work for him were taken aside by colleagues and warned to assume that their discussions with the boss were being recorded.

“There was never any sense with Donald of the phone being used for private conversation,” said John O’Donnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in the 1980s.

For O’Donnell and others who have had regular dealings with Trump through the years, there was something viscerally real about the threat implied by the president’s tweet Friday morning warning that fired FBI director James B. Comey “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

“Talking on the phone with Donald was a public experience,” said O’Donnell, author of a book about his former boss, “Trumped: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump.” “You never knew who else was listening.”

[PatSeg]

16. Ha, ha, ha!

And maybe Trump recorded his phone calls to Cohen. The man really hates when people do the same things to him, that he does to them. The outrage is absolutely adorable.

[Saguaro]

18. Poor Trump! Just stop picking on him!

It's always everyone else doing illegal things to poor, pure, innocent Donald Trump. This is what guilty people do when they defend themselves.

[Roy Rolling]

19. Too Bad, So Sad

Can't an oligarch-wannabe ripping off America get a break nowadays? I think Trump should produce his own recordings so we can compare the two.

[Maeve]

20. Then don't pardon him! That'll show him!

And thanks for letting us know Obama did nothing wrong, you Treason Weasel

[flibbitygiblets]

43. Lol yeah, that'll teach the scoundrel!

Jesus what an asshole

[turbinetree]

21. Hey, TRUMP your a FUCKING TRAITOR.................and I for one will not be deflected from your shit

you have been a POS from day one...................when you were on the Howard Stern show.....................moving forward..........................your public record says that you are a criminal and all you want to do with clear intent is hurt everyone that comes in contact with you..................based on everything you have done, and money .

And this fucking tweet, proves that you do everything wrong, what ever you say or do, is the opposite, everything..................and as for breaking into a lawyers office............................they have to have due process....................asshole,.................and has for your followers they can truly go fuck themselves .................traitors...............we are coming traitors....................

to show how small you are this speaks volumes on your mentality.................your arrogant mentality.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections

[MyOwnPeace]

35. I think......

that single film clip is the most outrageous thing that's ever been filmed of him (unless you count the "special" ones that Putin has!

[Nitram]

22. They draw blood! The Don is thrashing about for cover.

[SkatmanRoth]

23. Did nothing wrong? That is yet to be seen

There is a little matter Mueller is investigating that has not been in the news recently. Exxon wanted to enter into an oil deal with the Russians. Rex Tillerson (formerly of Exxon) got in as ecretary of State and was about to complete the Exxon-Russia deal when the investigators caught on to the situation. Tillerson has gone into hiding and Trump is ignoring the issue.
Robert Mueller is not ignoring the issue.

[DemKittyNC]

24. Who are these asshats...

That always ‘LIKE’ his twitter post? I cannot believe an actual human being would read these Tweets - loves what this moronic man-baby says and upvotes it.

Has got to be Russian Bots, right?

It is just inconceivable that he has actual supporters at this point.

[uppityperson]

25. Not a single Princess Bride quote yet? Inconceivable!

[Pachamama]

31. +1000...

You beat me too it.....I had that same thought when I saw that word (spelled correctly no less!)

[ChiTownDenny]

26. HAHAHAHA!

[Pachamama]

28. Bullshit.....everyone who knew Michael Cohen, knew he recorded conversations.....

Trump knew that too....he just didn't know that Cohen would ever turn on him....

[magicarpet]

40. Loyalty is a two way street.... idiot trDump just has not figured that out yet.

[True_Blue]

29. Wow! Who wants to bet that Cohen sings like a bird now

Trump's house of cards feels like it's all on the verge of collapsing. I wake up everyday hoping this is the one where I get to see him hauled off to prison in handcuffs.

[Julian Englis]

32. Good thing the court already decided that Cohen wasn't acting as a lawyer for tRump

When the judge said this recording wasn’t protected under lawye-client privilege, the judge also made the decision that Cohen wasn’t acting as a lawyer for tRump or anyone else.

[marble falls]

36. It wasn't an illegal tapping in NY if one person knows the conversation is being taped...

like someone else pointed out on DU: it isn't as if this is the ONLY tape.

We can flip Rudy's narrative by asking him: where are the other "exculpatory" tapes at???

[still_one]

37. Take him to court asshole, I dare you

[LudwigPastorius]

38. "a lawyer would tape a client...perhaps illegal"

Think again, Fat Boy.

New York state's wiretapping law is a "one-party consent" law.

https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-guide/state-state-guide/new-york

Cohen, by initiating the recordings himself, implicitly gave the needed consent of one party involved in the conversations with Trump.

[flibbitygiblets]

44. In the words of your coffee boy: WOMP WOMP!!

[truthisfreedom]

45. When this asshole says "possibly illegal" it means "I asked a lawyer

and was told it’s totally legal but I’m going to keep asking other lawyers until I get the answer I want.”