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Seth Meyers: Trump Visits Chick-fil-A as Court Rejects Delay Tactics in Hush Money Trial

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lawhawk4/12/2024 7:44:33 am PDT

re: #156 darthstar

This confused me, then I realized attorney client privilege doesn’t apply to criminal behavior…

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Crime fraud exception pierces the attorney client privilege, and it’s been used several times against Trump and his coconspirators in multiple criminal cases to date. Trump rails against this, even though it’s well established law that a lawyer cannot engage in crimes on behalf of their client, and then use the attorney-client privilege to cover up the crime.