An angry Rudy Giuliani just admitted that the FBI has tapes of Trump talking to Michael Cohen by responding to reports of a Cohen wiretap by complaining that attorney/client privilege is dead.
Robert Costa reported on MSNBC:
Costa said, ” He’s the president lead attorney on the Russia probe dealing with Bob Mueller but also dealing with the Cohen situation. He said if this report is true, he has not been formally told about it from the federal government. He said if it is true, two represent, quote, government misconduct. He sounded angry as I read him the NBC news story over the phone. He said that attorney-client privilege has now been eviscerated, not only by the raid of federal investigators of Cohen’s hotel and offices but just by this act, if it is accurate, which I trust NBC news. But Giuliani hasn’t been told. You have to believe the president has been informed at some level as the president if this was going on.”
Giuliani admitted that it’s Trump on the Cohen White House conversation
Whether he realized it or not, Rudy Giuliani went beyond the original report of the wiretap and confirmed that the FBI does have tapes of Trump and Cohen talking in the weeks leading up to the raid of Cohen’s offices, home, and hotel. The Trump’s infamous threat to James Comey that he had better hope that there are not tapes has come back to haunt him in the most ironic way possible because the FBI does have tapes, and Trump can’t have it both ways.
Trump has been claiming both attorney/client privilege and that Cohen isn’t his lawyer. Attorney/client privilege doesn’t apply because Trump admitted that Cohen isn’t acting as his lawyer.
Trump got busted talking to Cohen, and according to Trump’s own lawyer, it was him on the wiretap.
The next stop for the Trump Train may be federal prison.
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