“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”.
Attorney-client privilege is inoperative when an attorney is prosecuted for crimes he commits while working on behalf of a client. But it sounds like most of Cohen’s testimony has nothing to do with any of the issues related to the crimes that landed him in prison.
“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”.
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I’ve read elsewhere that for Trump to challenge Cohen for the A-C Privilege violation would be an admission that what Cohen is saying is the truth.
I question whether this is correct.
If an attorney discloses truthful information about his client, that is a violation, but if he LIES about what his client is supposed to have said/done/communicated, that is not a violation? Give me a break.
I had a legal settlement that included a gag order. It was a payoff for damages from a utility company, and they did not want other parties to whom they also had to pay a settlement finding out what the terms of their deal with me was. I made sure that they were not allowed to make false claims to others about what their settlement was to me, and that was the case. They were also covered by the gag order agreement, and even making false claims about what was in the settlement would be a violation.
So it would seem to me that an attorney making false claims about his client would also be in violation of the attorney client privilege.