I Think Donald Trump Is Evil
Trump invokes "advice of counsel" defense in campaign probe
Associated Press
December 13, 2018
4:32 PM CST
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump offered a simple defense Thursday to accusations he broke campaign finance law by directing attorney Michael Cohen to orchestrate hush-money payments to conceal Trump's alleged affairs: He was following terrible advice from a bad lawyer.
"I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law..He was a lawyer and he was supposed to know the law..It is called 'advice of counsel'." Trump wrote on Twitter.
The advice-of-counsel defense is a real thing.
But Trump's ability to use it, if he were ever formally to be accused of a crime, is far from certain.
And it could be risky.
"People talk of advice-of-counsel as a defense more than it's actually asserted, and it's rarely successful," said Diane Ciolino, a constitutional law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.
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Associated Press
December 13, 2018
4:32 PM CST
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump offered a simple defense Thursday to accusations he broke campaign finance law by directing attorney Michael Cohen to orchestrate hush-money payments to conceal Trump's alleged affairs: He was following terrible advice from a bad lawyer.
"I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law..He was a lawyer and he was supposed to know the law..It is called 'advice of counsel'." Trump wrote on Twitter.
The advice-of-counsel defense is a real thing.
But Trump's ability to use it, if he were ever formally to be accused of a crime, is far from certain.
And it could be risky.
"People talk of advice-of-counsel as a defense more than it's actually asserted, and it's rarely successful," said Diane Ciolino, a constitutional law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.
Read more,
Google:
"Trump invokes 'advice-of-counsel' defense in campaign probe"
