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Nevilledog

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Fri Sep 16, 2022, 09:18 PM Sep 2022

Trump's Team of Lawyers Marked by Infighting and Possible Legal Troubles of Its Own



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“Assert sweeping claims of executive privilege, they advised him, after Mr. Corcoran had suggested that an unspecified ‘chief judge’ would ultimately validate their belief that a president’s powers extend far beyond their time in office”

Eric Herschmann, a former White House lawyer for President Donald J. Trump, was a prominent witness in the House Jan. 6 hearings.
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Trump’s Team of Lawyers Marked by Infighting and Possible Legal Troubles of Its Own
Several of the former president’s lawyers are under scrutiny by federal investigators amid squabbling over competence.
5:49 PM · Sep 16, 2022


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/us/politics/trump-lawyers-herschmann.html

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To understand the pressures, feuds and questions about competence within former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team as he faces potential prosecution on multiple fronts, consider the experience of Eric Herschmann, a former Trump White House lawyer who has been summoned to testify to a federal grand jury.

For weeks this summer, Mr. Herschmann tried to get specific guidance from Mr. Trump’s current lawyers on how to handle questions from prosecutors that raise issues of executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.

After ignoring Mr. Herschmann or giving him what he seemed to consider perplexing answers to the requests for weeks, two of the former president’s lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran and John Rowley, offered him only broad instructions in late August. Assert sweeping claims of executive privilege, they advised him, after Mr. Corcoran had suggested that an unspecified “chief judge” would ultimately validate their belief that a president’s powers extend far beyond their time in office.

Mr. Herschmann, who served on Mr. Trump’s first impeachment defense team but later opposed efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 election, was hardly reassured and sounded confused by the reference to a chief judge.

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Trump's Team of Lawyers Marked by Infighting and Possible Legal Troubles of Its Own (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2022 OP
Representing Trump's attorneys could be a whole new legal cottage industry. Irish_Dem Sep 2022 #1
Which "chief judge" is bought? Was witness tampering averted? Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #2
Attempted witness tampering is still a crime. Nevilledog Sep 2022 #3
It sure read like Corcoran and Epshteyn attempted to coach Herschmann. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #5
Yup. Nevilledog Sep 2022 #6
That doesn't quite make sense PJMcK Sep 2022 #7
They tried to get Herschmann on the phone, without record. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #8
Oh, thanks (n/t) PJMcK Sep 2022 #9
K&R UTUSN Sep 2022 #4
Only the best, right? sakabatou Sep 2022 #10

PJMcK

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7. That doesn't quite make sense
Sat Sep 17, 2022, 08:23 AM
Sep 2022

Herschmann approached Corcoran and Epshteyn for advice on his testimony.

If the two corrupt Trump acolytes were going to coach Herschmann, wouldn't they have reached out to him?

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