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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:39 AM Apr 2018

Stormy Daniels lawyer to Trump: What's dead is using attorney-client privilege to hide illegal acts

Source: The Hill

BY LUIS SANCHEZ - 04/10/18 09:01 AM EDT

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti said on Tuesday morning that attorney-client privilege is not dead, as President Trump had stated in a tweet earlier in the day.

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“What is dead is using the privilege to hide illegal acts,” Avenatti wrote in a tweet. “And that has been dead for a long time.”

Earlier on Tuesday morning, President Trump tweeted that “attorney-client privilege is dead” after it was reported that the FBI raided the office and hotel room of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen on Monday.

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Avenatti said that the FBI raid shows that Cohen and Trump “are in a lot of trouble” and argued that the raid was part of a “search for the truth” and not a witch hunt.

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Stormy Daniels lawyer to Trump: What's dead is using attorney-client privilege to hide illegal acts (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP

Lloyd Bentsen lapfog_1 Apr 2018 #1

Now that's a good one! n/m machoneman Apr 2018 #2

Yup. And Trump is no Dan Quale. FailureToCommunicate Apr 2018 #4

neither one can spell "Potato" lapfog_1 Apr 2018 #5

I miss him; raven mad Apr 2018 #8

From Betty Bowers Gothmog Apr 2018 #3

Mahalo for Mrs Betty Bowers, Goth! Cha Apr 2018 #10

Laurence Tribe, who knows his law: muriel_volestrangler Apr 2018 #6

Good goddezs/god/whoever - raven mad Apr 2018 #7

#basta! Cha Apr 2018 #9

lapfog_1

(31,979 posts)

1. Lloyd Bentsen

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:42 AM

Apr 2018

"I use the attorney-client privilege. I know the attorney-client privilege. The attorney-client privilege is a friend of mine. And you, sir, have no attorney-client privilege!"

a classic

machoneman

(4,128 posts)

2. Now that's a good one! n/m

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 10:19 AM

Apr 2018

n/m

FailureToCommunicate

(14,620 posts)

4. Yup. And Trump is no Dan Quale.

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 11:15 AM

Apr 2018

Trumps continues to sink below ALL the lowest of low Republican public figures.

lapfog_1

(31,979 posts)

5. neither one can spell "Potato"

Reply to FailureToCommunicate (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 11:57 AM

Apr 2018

but the donald might even misspell "spud"

raven mad

(4,940 posts)

8. I miss him;

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:20 PM

Apr 2018

Talk about an attorney who could ruffle some feathers!

Gothmog

(182,015 posts)

3. From Betty Bowers

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 10:23 AM

Apr 2018

Link to tweet

Cha

(320,554 posts)

10. Mahalo for Mrs Betty Bowers, Goth!

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:34 PM

Apr 2018

muriel_volestrangler

(106,592 posts)

6. Laurence Tribe, who knows his law:

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 03:05 PM

Apr 2018

Link to tweet

'By the way, there is no “consigliere-client” privilege for a mobster’s conspiratorial conversations with his lawyer. Never has been. Just saying.'

raven mad

(4,940 posts)

7. Good goddezs/god/whoever -

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:14 PM

Apr 2018

I may be in luuuuv......

Cha

(320,554 posts)

9. #basta!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:32 PM

Apr 2018

Michael Avenatti

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