Posted on 02/27/2019 5:54:24 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The attorney-client privilege is a rule that preserves the confidentiality of communications between lawyers and clients. Under that rule, attorneys may not divulge their clients’ secrets, nor may others force them to. The purpose of the privilege is to encourage clients to openly share information with their lawyers and to let lawyers provide effective representation.
Generally, the attorney-client privilege applies when:
an actual or potential client communicates with a lawyer regarding legal advice
the lawyer is acting in a professional capacity (rather than, for example, as a friend), and the client intended the communications to be private and acted accordingly.
Lawyers may not reveal oral or written communications with clients that clients reasonably expect to remain private.
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Trump could hit him with a civil lawsuit that could make history.
From what I've seen, Trump hasn't even made any public statement objecting to Cohen's testimony before Congress at all.
I wouldn’t think it would be admissible in any court.
The boy is lying like a little b*tch in hopes of staying out of jail. He’s too sick to go to jail but he’s fine to testify before the buffoons on Capitol Hill. Weird.
Guy’s already going to prison for his work with Trump.
If what Cohen had contained any legal merit, Mueller would have had him in front of a Grand Jury, not Democrat/Deep State hacks in Congress. Political theater.
So, does Trump go after Cohen and give this stunt more credibility, or just ignore it/troll it? Does Cohen have any real assets to go after?
When does the dog and pony show start?
For a long time, so we have a convicted lying felon, no wonder the media holds him such high esteem.
He’s going to prison for stuff he did on his own. Tax evasion, fraud. He is the dirtiest lawyer on the planet.
Yes he went from being the worst guy in the world to a truth telling hero in pretty short order.
Distract from Vietnam trip
He’s going to jail for his own screw ups.
Thirty years in the NYC construction business and Trump learned nothing from the Sicilians.
One thing that’s obvious to me is that Cohen must not have given Mueller anything worthwhile that Trump could be prosecuted for. If he had, it is highly likely the DOJ and Mueller would have gagged Cohen until those crimes could be prosecuted so as not to screw up their case. It’s standard procedure.
While what you say is probably true, What was not released is likely more important to Trump than what was. If there is litigation, it can all come out
“From what I’ve seen, Trump hasn’t even made any public statement objecting to Cohen’s testimony before Congress at all.”
Trump did (rightly) raise a stink about A/C priviledge. Now we have to let it play out. Further foot-stomping about it would, of course, be spun as the President throwing a tantrum, and would “raise questions”.
I don’t know about lawsuits but I assume that breaking attorney-client privilege was the reason why Cohen was disbarred yesterday the moment he opened his mouth before the Senate panel.
Trump can’t go around knocking off people that pissed him off. Trump is not Tony Soprano.
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