Aug. 18, 2018
NYT reported he extensively cooperated with the muller witch hunt investigation, did three interviews with over 30 hours over nine months.
So much for lawyer client confidentiality, it isn’t worth much when the lawyer has the spine of a snail...
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There is an issue when a lawyer works for the US Government. The Government is his client; not the President or any other official. If the President wants personal legal advice that is subject to attorney-client privilege, he need to hire personal counsel and speak to them in private.
Yes, read that article. It was because McGann’s attorney and he thought it was unusual for Trump ton encourage McGann to speak freely with Mueller when usually WH counsel lawyers do not do so as it is considered client privilege to discuss anything that the client and the lawyer talks about.
McGann and his lawyer felt Trump was setting him up to take the fall in case of anything fallout with obstruction charges thus why McGann decided, with his lawyers advice to talk to Mueller.