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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump talks about attorney client privilege...
but if the attorneys conspire with Trump to commit crimes doesn't that nullify all attorney client privileges?
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Trump talks about attorney client privilege... (Original Post)
Kablooie
Sep 2022
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He has to make sure his co-conspirators and his lawyers are two different groups of people. He seems to have trouble understanding this. And he also hires lawyers who are criminals. This is not wise.
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)2. Yes, that's how so many of his lawyers end up facing charges...
former9thward
(32,097 posts)7. Which lawyers are facing charges?
Ocelot II
(115,900 posts)3. Yes, it's called the crime/fraud exception.
There's no privilege if the lawyer participated in the crime.
tavernier
(12,410 posts)4. You and your LICKSPITTLES!
Ok, watching new Game of Thrones and Lickspittle is my favorite new word.
Rump has many Lickspittles.
RockRaven
(15,035 posts)5. Yes, but he's got a dumb mob brain and thinks he can hide behind a special magic word or two.
Just because he claims something doesn't make it valid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorneyclient_privilege
Crimefraud exception
The crimefraud exception can render the privilege moot when communications between an attorney and client are themselves used to further a crime, tort, or fraud. In Clark v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that "A client who consults an attorney for advice that will serve him in the commission of a fraud will have no help from the law. He must let the truth be told."[8] The crimefraud exception also does require that the crime or fraud discussed between client and attorney be carried out to be triggered.[9] U.S. courts have not yet conclusively ruled how little knowledge an attorney can have of the underlying crime or fraud before the privilege detaches and the attorney's communications or requisite testimony become admissible.[10]
He's an idiot, a liar, and an asshole. If he's talking, he's spewing nonsense. Axiomatically. He makes zero honest, good faith arguments, legal or otherwise.
For example, during one of the many legal actions against their criminal clan, one of his dumb sons tried to claim that a conversation between himself and his father was protected by attorney-client privilege because Michael Cohen was in the room and Michael Cohen was a lawyer.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)6. Why is everyone so mean to him?
crickets
(25,987 posts)8. Great point.
Funny how his lawyers seem to have ignored this detail. Paging Christina Bobb...