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Trump Waives Attorney-Client Privilege On Secret Cohen Recording

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President Trump’s attorneys have waived attorney-client privilege over a secretly recorded conversation in which Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen discuss a payment over a claim that ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal’s had a year-long affair with the President starting in 2006, reports the Washington Examiner.

The move comes amid claims by Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s claim that the tape vindicates Trump and shows no wrongdoing – further driving a wedge between the President and his former longtime “fixer” Cohen. Cohen recently hired Clinton-pal attorney Lanny Davis to represent him.

“Nothing in that conversation suggests that he had any knowledge of it in advance,” Giuliani told The New York Times of the taped conversation about the payment. “In the big scheme of things, it’s powerful exculpatory evidence,” he added.

That said, not everyone is convinced the tape is good for the President. 

As CNN also notes, “Trump’s lawyers asking to remove the privilege designation from the recording means that the government now has access to it as part of the US attorney for the Southern District of New York’s probe into Cohen. It effectively gives prosecutors the ability to use the recording if they find it relevant to their criminal investigation of Cohen.”

On Saturday morning, Trump broke his silence over the recording over Twitter: 

“Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) – almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client – totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!” Trump tweeted.

The release of the tape sparked a widespread debate about the sanctity of attorney-client privilege, and its use in “one-party” consent states.

That point may be moot now that Trump’s team has effectively waived privilege. 

Meanwhile, Stormy Daniels’s activist lawyer, Michael Avenatti, said Michael Cohen has several audio recordings of President Trump discussing women who have come forward after allegedly having affairs with Trump.

Avenatti told MSNBC on Friday that there are more tapes: “I know for a fact that this is not the only tape,” Avenatti said. “I think this is a very serious matter and I think that any or all audio tapes that Michael Cohen has in his possession relating to this president should be released for the public.


    Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2018/07/21/trump-waives-attorney-client-privilege-on-secret-cohen-recording/


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