ex-president it is explosive reporting from the washington post. there s this saying when it comes to donald trump and his slogan, remember the one on the hats, make america great again, that what maga said make attorneys get attorneys. the late breaking news from the washington post proves this case that now donald trump s attorneys appear to be in special counsel jack smith s cross hairs including some of the most notorious ones. federal prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election have asked witnesses extension sieve questions about the actions of rudy giuliani, including where he got his information about alleged fraud, what he did in the days around january 6th and what he knew about the actions coming that day. people who have appeared in front of the grand jury say. investigators looking into classified documents pertaining to mar-a-lago have sought testimony from another trump lawyer, ben cork ran saying there is evidence that the former president u
This fourth indictment is like something from an alternative universe. Can’t be real but it is and serious as a heart attack. The law means nothing to rotten, corrupt Democrats in public offices and too many Democrat voters. It is beyond obscene. The American people are seeing this pile-on as pu
lawyers that you have detailed reporting on in terms of their participation and appearances, and there s one we haven t focused much on called jesse binnell. binnell was speaking with witnesses about establishing common interest privilege, the extension of attorney-client privilege to shield information in the documents case. that s according to people familiar with the interor. other trump lawyers were quizzed about how trump s legal team handled the subpoena for the documents in the summer of 2022. this is so interesting because and i think andrew was involved in this in his work on the muller probe specifically with manafort and others that were scrutinized, defendants have a right or targets or subjects have a right for their lawyers to talk. boris epstein was asked if it
andrew, that they re questioning him? i mean, they re pretty wide latitude given subjects or targets for their attorneys to be in contact and coordination even. so if they re probing, and let me just get the reporting accurate here, this is about an attorney named jesse binnell and it says binnell was questioned about whether epstein tried to influence testimony by speaking with witnesses and the extension of attorney-client privilege among lawyers whose clients have shared a strategy to shield the information in the documents case. i ask that, i guess, wanting to understand what these questions are about, one, and, two, there s an active a live wire of an obstruction of justice probe that has also been revealed by doj in their affidavits in this case. sure. let me try to break this down. nobody, whether it s a lawyer or a non-lawyer, can try to get a
went beyond what you re allowed to do. can you flesh that out for us? is. yeah, nicole, i m glad you raised this. it is completely legal and appropriate for lawyers to feel around to other witnesses who do have a shared interest in having some sort of joint defense agreement, but these questions that prosecutors have been asking witnesses, people like jesse binnell who works with boris epstein, you know, those questions imply in some way that they feel like there might have been inappropriate lines of questioning when it came to forming some sort of joint defense agreement but, you know, we do not have reporting on what exactly the answers were to this line of questioning, we just know that is something that has come up in those conversations between prosecutors and these lawyers. i m going to bring in andrew weissman in on this one. do you read it the same way,