Posted on 07/25/2018 8:05:29 AM PDT by EagleUSA
President Donald Trump blasted his former attorney Michael Cohen on Wednesday, the morning after CNN aired the audio of a recording Cohen made of the two.
"What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad!" Trump tweeted.
In the audio aired first on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time," Trump and Cohen can be heard discussing how they would buy the rights to former Playboy model Karen McDougal's story about an alleged affair she had with Trump years earlier, which Trump denies. Court filings said federal prosecutors have 12 recordings from Cohen, and CNN previously confirmed the recording with Trump is among those 12.
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Yes, it is privilege.....
This has always been my question as well.
Can Trump sue him?
I sure hope the Dems have promised to support Mr Cohen for life. He sure as H*** won’t be able to get any clients for his law practice anymore. Can he be disbarred for his violation of attorney-client privilege? Or brought up on any other charges? Or has Mueller given him immunity for life?
That was my thought also. How many more clients to Cohen tape?
to = did
Don’t know. Did Cohen violate the NYSBA code of conduct by taping clients without their permission?
Even in depositions, everyone knows the discussion will be memorialized in some manner.
By my count this is the 7,983rd time they've thought that. (and I may be a few thousand low)
Nice little dig about “other clients” there.
Lots of Democrats are now going to lay awake at night wondering if their shyster attorneys have recorded them saying far worse things.
“Did Cohen violate the NYSBA code of conduct by taping clients without their permission?”
Napolitano (who’s hardly ever right) said Cohen violated the law. An attorney must ask the client if the conversation can be recorded each time. Taking notes is OK; recording ... not.
Remember how cnn report the clinton email release. We were not allowed to read them because the where the product of a hack. And were are the other lawyers? Are they okay with an attorney taping and then releasing a conversation covered by attorney/client privilege? What about the bar association. And why was the attorney’s office raided in the first place? where are the charges? It’s a political witch hunt with no limits.
I believe that Trump removed his privilege on the tape, knowing that it would be leaked and that there was nothing to it anyhow - except it would prove Cohen to be untrustworthy.
This is cheese in the maze folks. Cohen is a sidebar to distract Mueller and the Left.
Can't wit to hear the taped "reporters" he references
Seems to me that clients ought to tape their lawyers now.
Surely President Trump has legal recourse. Couldn’t he sue Cohen and CNN and collect?
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