re: Our Presidents morning tweets this morning!

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Does privilege cover when the attorney is the one breaking the law? Allegedly?

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Option 1, Cohen did this on his own without Trump’s knowledge. In that case, Cohen is not acting as Trump’s attorney, this no privilege (and likely no crime by Trump).

Option 2, Trump told Cohen to pay off Stormy. If this payment then is a violation of the law A/C privilege may not apply. For instance a gangster can’t cc his attorney whenever he puts out a hit and shield those emails under under A/C privilege.

Option 3, Trump said SOMETHING about Stormy to Cohen, but didn’t say anything that could be connected to violating the law. In that A/C privilege likely applies.

Option 4-98998$ something way stranger than any of us expect.

Note there are some more subtleties/issues here but that is the brief 8000 ft view of how this works.