Posted on 07/20/2018 9:04:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Trump two months before the presidential election in which they discussed payments to a former Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump, according to lawyers and others familiar with the recording.
The F.B.I. seized the recording this year during a raid on Mr. Cohen’s office. The Justice Department is investigating Mr. Cohen’s involvement in paying women to tamp down embarrassing news stories about Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election. Prosecutors want to know whether that violated federal campaign finance laws, and any conversation with Mr. Trump about those payments would be of keen interest to them.
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Might also be exempt from privilege conversation if they were talking about making a payment to her to keep her from going public.
That might be a campaign finance violation and as such would not be cover by attorney/client privilege.
Muh Russia is dead, separating families is over, now it’s back to a sex scandal. Tell the left we just don’t care!
Lanny Davis is Cohen’s lawyer. Maybe Davis leaked it.
If the given coarse of action is an illegal act it would not be protected.
IANAL, but as I understand it - if you ask your attorney how to break the law even if he says don’t do it, it is not protected. If you already broke the law and ask him what the best coarse of action going forward is then it is protected.
Ok, but what if you ask about a course of action. Now maybe he says don’t do it. Maybe he doesn’t even think about election law. Regardless. You discuss it, then DON’T do it. Protected? Not Protected? Irrelevant?
I imagine it is a situational thing.
That’s why they had a court-appointed official (I believe another judge) review everything before allowing the special counsel or NY prosecutors to review it. Anything the official decided was privileged was kept from prosecutors.
In NY? He'll probably be the next Governor.
cohen says that’s a lie.
Honestly, Trump has Lousy taste in people. He can pick a turd in a field of diamonds.
Hey NYT, get back to us when you investigate Obama’s m,any ‘Queer’ friends, and his ‘Body Man’ Reggie Love.
Of course it’s a lie. Hours after it’s posted, it’s amazing how much people here still believe anything Carlos Slim’s blog says.
Pence knows that if President Trump goes, he is next in line for impeachment.
Coup d’etat seems to be a perfect description of the current “investigation” into “treason” by this President, based on no evidence, no motives and no criminal mental state.
The revolution is succeeding rather welll with almost fifty per-cent of the population backing it comrade.
(Who needs a Constitution when there’s ANTIFA to enforce the dictates of the revolution.)
IMHO
So what. I’m jealous that I never had to do that.
could just as easily be Alex Ballswind imitating Trump.
Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. The prosecutor didn’t use this tidbit to prosecute anybody. He, or someone in the SDNY’s office, leaked it to the press.
I obviously agree with you at this point, but there may come a day when I have to eat those words. I sure hope that turns out to be the case at some point.
If not, Sessions will be the worst AG in U. S. History > IMO.
Paying a whore off is not a crime.
Shouldn’t be, but I’m reading where it might be. Apparently, the question is were campaign funds used?
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