Posted on 07/20/2018 12:51:52 PM PDT by deplorableindc
An attorney who led Linda Tripp's defense against state charges for secretly recording Monica Lewinsky says President Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, should seek a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller if he illegally recorded Trump.
Cohen secretly taped Trump discussing a payment to a Playboy model who alleged an affair, about two months before the 2016 election, the New York Times reported Friday. The date and location of the conversation were not reported, but Cohen is believed to have taped other talks with Trump, possibly in files seized in raids of his office and home in April.
Anthony Zaccagnini, Tripp's lawyer, said if federal prosecutors find evidence that Cohen violated a state law, they could turn Cohen over to state authorities, or use the information as leverage to coerce his cooperation. Proactively brokering a deal with federal authorities could make a state prosecution much more difficult, he said.
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Fruit of the poison tree...
If it was obtained illegally, it’s inadmissible as evidence.
Attorney client privilege.....so i call bs..
Immunity may protect him from criminal prosecution, but secretly recording clients may constitute ethical violations. You don’t go to jail, but you are no longer an attorney ...
Laws don’t count when going after Trump. As per Obama executive order #12876 01/18/17
They still are not admissable. Whether Cohen wants to air them on the Tonight show or not doesn’t matter.
It’s friday in the summer. I think most of the A team is at the beach.
What if Trump says it was always made clear by Cohen thhat he records all conversations?
It is if the Attorney claims that privilege. If he doesn’t, he can roll over to save his own posterior.
I don’t think the defense can block the release.
I’m not an attorney though. I could be wrong.
I think the law was written to protect attorneys from being coerced, if there was nothing else going on.
Law don’t protect Trump, and laws don’t convict Clinton.
That pretty well sums it up.
I checked the law. it was done in NY. NY requires that only one of the parties in the recording must be aware of the recording. Since Cohen knew, it makes the recordings legal.
Thanks.
I appreciate the clarification.
What if this is an attempt by lanny davis to make Trump squirm knowing that Trump knows there are more recordings. We are in never never land here, they are actually leaking attorney client privileged conversations. Add that to the long list of overt abuses of individual’s rights and obvious political bias. Yet not a single congress critter, legal expert or msm personality has questioned the legality and long term implication of what is happening. I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
It doesn’t matter. Nothing bad in the recordings.
True, but I’m not sure what was illegal about this in the first place. In fact, if she was implying blackmail, she’s the one who’s guilty.
BTW, I’m not defending ratty behavior, but it seems at least that Trump was trying to make it alright, since the woman was obviously a call girl, and these “girls” only do it for the money. On the other hand, Bill Clinton was literally raping non-consenting women - his inferiors or even employees - who were certainly not call girls. He got impeached for lying to Congress, but of course not removed and somehow the fact that he got impeached has been forgotten.
But not by the Dems, who are trying to gin up a false narrative by innuendo here.
No. Attorney client privilege belongs to the client.
First of all....it depends in which stae/states the calls were recorded. I’m guessing NYS.
Right away this is twisted because the victim of this crime would be trump, but the lawyer suggests Cohen turn trump into the special prosecutor in return for immunity. How do they figure that Cohen’s crime should turn into trouble for trump? Plus, clearly the attorney client privilege was violated.
I’m sure Trump also knew the call was being recorded...part of Cohen’s standard practice. My attorney records all his calls.....billing purposes. NYS
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