Trump’s attorney-client leak privilege – empty wheel

Pursuant to Judge Cannon's order, her clerk has finally unsealed the contents of a complaint made last summer by Stan Woodward: that Jay Bratt insinuated in a meeting on August 24, 2022 that if Walt Nauta did not cooperate against Trump, he would Lose the chance to become a Supreme Court justice. Here is the letter giving Woodward's side of the story, and here is Jay Bratt's statement.

In his explanation of the argument for Judge Cannon, Woodward repeatedly denied being the source for the release to the press because “we try our cases in court.” He even stated that several people received a lengthy letter with his complaint, but that the reporters “agreed not to reveal the identity of the defense attorney at the defense attorney's request because we are trying our cases in court.” That's the same reason Woodward Trump's Truth Social attacks did not correct.

Prosecutors from the special counsel's office attempted to “bribe and intimidate” a lawyer representing a witness in the case, claiming the lawyer was offered a “major judicial position” in the Biden administration if the client “rolls over.” . about President Trump.'

Stan Woodward says he spent a lot of time explaining to journalists exactly how to report on these allegations, but without correcting Trump's false claims.

But it turns out that Woodward's complaint isn't the only one Trump used in June 2023 to overturn grand jury testimony after receiving a targeted letter. Trump made a series of allegations:

• Brett Reynolds was eager to get Kash Patel to testify on schedule when Beryl Howell ordered it, even after Patel hired Stan Woodward just as the Oath Keeper trial blocked his schedule for months
• Prosecutors asked Chamberlain Harris for a password to the laptop on which she had some classified information, and she gave it away
• They gave Margo Martin between 72 hours and six days to receive a grand jury subpoena
• They obtained an arrest warrant for Carlos De Oliveira's phone after issuing a subpoena for his failure to hand over a message from Nauta instructing him to prevent Nauta and Trump from returning to Mar-a-Lago on March 10. July 2022 to cover up
• Tim Parlatore invoked attorney-client privilege 45 times during his grand jury appearance

It's the last one that's most notable. As Jack Smith explained – before even addressing the Woodward allegations – the reason Parlatore testified before the grand jury was primarily because Trump refused to have a true custodian of the records verify the thoroughness of the searches of Trump's other properties Documents to be confirmed on theft. Parlatore then agreed to participate in a grand jury interview in which he would make point-by-point privileged claims about the thoroughness of the search he supervised.

It was the same trick Trump pulled on Christina Bobb in June 2022.

This portion of Jack Smith's response provides a lot more detail about Parlatore's efforts to eliminate prosecutors in the fall of 2022.

Trump raised allegations of abuse on one question in particular: whether Trump was the source of false claims Parlatore made about how cooperative Trump was during Jay Bratt's June 2022 visit, at which Parlatore was not present.

At one point, Parlatore invoked attorney-client privilege after being asked whether the former president was the source of Parlatore's testimony about statements the former president allegedly made to government investigators about his willingness to cooperate. GJTr.40. The prosecutor then questioned whether a client could waive his privilege and questioned why the former president did not allow Parlatore to testify about these conversations if he (the former president) wanted to be cooperative, but the prosecutor also quickly made it clear that she “She absolutely did not say that a waiver of privileges was necessary to be cooperative and that, consistent with her earlier statement, she had no intention of “inducing any waiver.” GJTr.40-43. Still, Parlatore repeatedly accused prosecutors of “attempting to unlawfully interfere with attorney-client privilege.” GJTr.45. see also GJTr.77. After one such allegation, a prosecutor told Parlatore that “if [he] want[ed] invoke the privilege [he] “I can just say this,” instead of casting aspersions about “what people on this side of the table do and don’t do.”

In short, it was intended to create the opportunity to claim abuse, and Trump has claimed so.

What's interesting about the allegation – aside from all the details about Parlatore assisting the prosecutors – is that shortly before this complaint, Parlatore loudly left Trump's team and has been fairly routine about details of Trump's legal team. That is, Parlatore was more candid with CNN than with the grand jury. And according to a story by Hugo Lowell, Parlatore shared a transcript of that grand jury appearance before Trump demanded a transcript of that grand jury appearance.

It's all so predictable and obvious.

But…eight months later, it still seems to be working wonders for Aileen Cannon.