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Thu May 18, 2017, 09:56 PM May 2017

Needs attorney to navigate complex probe, his ex-lawyer says

By Michael Kranish
May 18 at 7:49 PM

A longtime private attorney for President Trump said he has advised the White House that Trump should hire a “tough Washington lawyer” to help navigate .. the special counsel investigation ...

... he so far has been relying on government lawyers, including his White House counsel, who could eventually be called to testify about their private conversations with him. Such conversations are not considered “privileged,” unlike what Trump experienced as a corporate executive working with hired legal counsel ...

... constant tweeting about subjects under investigation — as well as his claim that then-FBI Director James B. Comey assured him in three conversations that he was cleared — could undermine efforts to cite executive privilege ...

“It makes it extremely hard for him to make a claim of executive privilege after he has already put it out there publicly,” said Mark J. Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Public Policy at George Mason University and author of a book on executive privilege. “He is just not careful. We know that” ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-needs-private-attorney-to-navigate-complex-probe-his-ex-lawyer-says/2017/05/18/f8dd81e0-3bf7-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html


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