Joe Biden’s DOJ is now trying to get Trump’s attorney to break his attorney/client privilege and testify against him.
They argue in favor of an exeception that would compel M. Evan Corcoran, Trump’s attorney, to tesify.
According to the New York Times, this exception is about “legal advice or legal services” being used to commit a crime:
Federal prosecutors overseeing the investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s handling of classified documents are seeking to pierce assertions of attorney-client privilege and compel one of his lawyers to answer more questions before a grand jury, according to two people familiar with the matter, adding an aggressive new dimension to the inquiry and underscoring the legal peril facing Mr. Trump.
The prosecutors have sought approval from a federal judge to invoke what is known as the crime-fraud exception, which allows them to work around attorney-client privilege when they have reason to believe that legal advice or legal services have been used in furthering a crime. The fact that prosecutors invoked the exception in a sealed motion to compel the testimony of the lawyer, M. Evan Corcoran, suggests that they believe Mr. Trump or his allies might have used Mr. Corcoran’s services in that way.
Among the questions that the Justice Department has been examining since last year is whether Mr. Trump or his associates obstructed justice in failing to comply with demands to return a trove of government material he took with him from the White House upon leaving office, including hundreds of documents with classified markings.
Andy McCarthy wrote a piece in the New York Post just yesterday saying that since Biden and Pence (and Hillary) have been found to have classified documents in their possession, prosecutors can’t really go after Trump for having classified documents.
Instead, he argues, they will go after Trump for ‘obstructing justice’ and that’s exactly what the New York Times is reporting above:
Thus, DOJ’s dilemma: The Democratic base’s most fervent desire is to see charges brought against Trump. But as a practical matter, how could Attorney General Merrick Garland and his appointed special counsel, Jack Smith, rationalize charging the former president without charging the incumbent president and the former vice president?
Prosecutors appear to have an answer: Out with reckless mishandling of classified information, in with grand jury obstruction.
McCarthy hit the nail on the head. But in order for the DOJ to prove their case, they have to compel Trump’s attorney to break attorney-client privilege and testify. I’m sure that even if a federal judge authorizes the DOJ’s wish, Trump’s attorney will fight to appeal this decision.
This reporting shows just how political this has become. All of this began because Biden told his hack AG to go after Trump and that’s exactly what he did. Biden and the Democrat party are obsessed with Trump and they want him prosecuted and found guilty if committing a crime to keep him from running for president again.
It is the weaponization of the federal government and that is tyranny.