{"id":101583,"date":"2018-07-25T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101583"},"modified":"2018-07-25T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T15:58:01","slug":"deep-state-uses-michael-cohen-to-eviscerate-attorney-client-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=101583","title":{"rendered":"<i>Deep State<\/i> Uses Michael Cohen to Eviscerate Attorney Client Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump on Cohen Recording: &#8216;What Kind of a Lawyer Would Tape a Client?<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_101585\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GetFile-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101585\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GetFile-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GetFile-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/GetFile-2-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Leah Millis\/Reuters)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by NEWSMAX Wires<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is firing back at his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen after the release of a recording Cohen secretly made of a conversation between the two men.<\/p>\n<p>Trump weighed in on Twitter Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad!&#8221; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped &#8211; can this be so? Too bad!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1022097879253635072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The audio recording, surreptitiously made by Cohen, appears to contradict the Trump campaign&#8217;s later claim that Trump knew nothing about payments to a media company to keep model Karen McDougal&#8217;s story from becoming public.<\/p>\n<p>The tape captures the soon-to-be elected president and his lawyer discussing logistics of financing and whether to &#8220;pay with cash,&#8221; although the sound is muffled and Trump&#8217;s instructions on that are unclear. Lawyers for Trump and Cohen are disputing what was said.<\/p>\n<p>The tape was provided to CNN on Tuesday by Cohen&#8217;s attorney, Lanny Davis, and signals a new level of open hostility between the president and the man who once described himself as Trump&#8217;s &#8220;fixer.&#8221; Cohen, who is under federal investigation for potential bank fraud and campaign finance violations, has shown a growing willingness to reveal damaging information.<\/p>\n<p>Trump suggested Wednesday that the tape cuts off when he was &#8220;presumably saying positive things&#8221; and that other clients and reporters were taped by Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Davis has said he released the tape after being subjected to an &#8220;intense campaign of disparagement&#8221; by the president&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/cohen-tape-trump\/2018\/07\/25\/id\/873619\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/cohen-tape-trump\/2018\/07\/25\/id\/873619\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump on Cohen Recording: &#8216;What Kind of a Lawyer Would Tape a Client?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}