Honig: Prosecutors in Trump case make 'very rare' request

 

By Kaitlan Collins, Devan Cole and Katelyn Polantz, CNN

In a monumental ruling Friday, a federal judge ordered Donald Trump attorney Evan Corcoran to provide additional testimony as part of an investigation into the former president’s handling of classified documents, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

 

Corcoran has the potential to become one of the most crucial witnesses in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal investigation into possible mishandling of classified records after the Trump presidency and obstruction of justice.

 

District Judge Beryl Howell said in an order under seal that Justice Department prosecutors have met the threshold for the crime-fraud exception for Corcoran, the source said.

 

Full story: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/17/politics/evan-corcoran-testimony-trump-lawyer/index.html

 

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Excellent news.

 

We don’t get to hear grand jury testimony as it is given and so there is naturally a tendency to speculate on what that testimony is.

 

However, in this case the mere fact that the ‘Crime Fraud Exception’ has been used to negate ‘Client Attorney Privilege’ is evidence that the DOJ has convinced a Federal Judge that Trump’s communications with Corcoran relate to the furtherance of a crime and or fraud.

 

Please stand Mr Corcoran and raise your right hand….

 

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.

 

 

Edited March 18, 20233 yr by Chomper Higgot

Your Honor, Mr. Trump did not intend to misappropriate classified documents per se, he just wanted some souvenirs and memorabilia from his time at the White House, you know they had all these cool stamps and writings on them you see in movies... My client was placing them strategically in his home, so any visitor to Mar-a- Lago would be suitably impressed by Mr. Trump's relevance and importance. Yes, yes, these envelopes and binders had contents concerning national security, and my client should have removed those contents - which we admit was an innocent oversight - , but it truly was all about those outside markings that mattered to Mr. Trump, and we shouldn't really begrudge him these purely decorative items.

Edited March 18, 20233 yr by klauskunkel

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen gives advice to current Trump lawyers

 

"Run!"

Cohen says MAGA now means "Make an Attorney Get an Attorney."

This is going to be a real spectacle: DT with his lawyers, and those lawyers with their own lawyers.  So DT whispers something to his lawyer, who then has to consult with his own lawyer before he speaks to the judge.  A satire of something that is a living satire turns into an absurdity vortex.

I'm waiting to see how Secret Service protection to the indicted former president will be carried out -- will his protectors become his captors?