Dragonlady
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A lawsuit can claim whatever the plaintiff wants. Fraud is a criminal statute. I comes with jail time.Do you know all the fines for illegal campaign donations that Slick Willy had to pay? And, of course, there are the hundreds of millions in bribes that foreign governments paid to CGI..
The idiot trump is claiming his other attorneys are afraid their offices and homes will be raided by law enforcement agencies.
Is this another lie by the idiot trump to infuriate his mindless minions? Or, have other members of his defense team also provided him advice prior to criminal acts, thus changing their status from legal adviser(s) to accomplice(s)?
If one, two, or more of the idiot trump’s attorneys do, indeed, fear a raid like that on Monday by the FBI on Michael Cohen’s office, residence, and hotel room, they must realize they have acted as co-conspirators in past crimes or current criminal activities being committed by the idiot trump, a member, or members of his criminal organization.
The idiot trump's twitter rant concerning all lawyers feelings of being “deflated" by the FBI raids on Michael Cohen was addressed by former US Attorney Preet Bharara during an interview on CNN. Bharara dismissed the idiot trump's claim that all lawyers are “deflated”, adding “ ‘he was was not deflated' ". He also said, " ‘I don't think that Donald Trump has a decent understanding of what the attorney-client privilege is and how it can be pierced.' "
Obviously, Bharara was being kind to the idiot trump during the CNN piece. He knows after the many years of the idiot trump’s shady business dealings, the idiot trump understands all of the ins and outs of attorney/client privilege. Given those decades of crooked practices, it’s more than likely the idiot trump understands the limits of privilege better than most lawyers.
As much as the idiot trump and his mindless minions want to believe the FBI’s raid was illegal due to attorney/client privilege, the Supreme Court defined the parameters necessary to guarantee or void that privilege 85 years ago. “ ‘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,’ Justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote for the Supreme Court in 1933.”
Certainly, any attorney worth retainers paid to the idiot trump’s lawyers are fully aware of this USSC ruling, and also understand the 1933 decision is not limited to acts of fraud alone.
Of course, if the idiot trump’s attorneys believe as he does, that they too are above the law, their own arrogance, coupled with that of the idiot trump’s, have made the attorney/client privilege issue irrelevant.
It is expected that conservatives' responses to this OP will use alternative facts to dispute or deny the 1933 Supreme Court ruling, or will blather on with other right wing nonsense.
Trump Says His Other Lawyers Now Concerned About Raids
Trump says his own lawyers 'probably wondering when their home will be raided'
Attorney-client privilege is not 'dead' — and not absolute
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I'd be happy if you could prove that Trump has been part of or committed even ONE crime? What is it? Where's the crime? Got anything other than your bullshit?
Trump University fraud - Trump settled for $25 million
Trump Foundation made illegal campaign contributions to AG’s in two states and paid a fine for doing so.
The Trump Foundation was shut down in New York for illegal fundraising.
In addition Trump has publically admitted to sexual assault - grab ‘em in the pussy, don’t even ask; paying bribes; and bragged about making $40 million from one casino bankruptcy. While not illegal, it shows a complete lack of ethics.
Trump lost a lawsuit. He wasn't convicted of fraud.
The Trump foundation was shutdown in NY because it failed to file the necessary paper work.
You're blowing making mountains out of molehills.
Trump lost a lawsuit claiming fraud.
You are beyond ignorant. Did you never take a civics class in your sad and sorry life? Fat, stupid and conservative is no way to go through life.
The lawsuit was a civil case filed by the marks Trump fleeced. He settled the case at which point he’d already been elected President. The Justice Department could have then charged him criminally but Jeff Sessions elected not to do so.