Someone apparently leaked the tape in which Trump and Cohen
discussed the possibility of reimbursing A.M.I. (parent company of National
Enquirer) for its pre-election capture and kill of Karen McDougal’s story of
her year-long affair with the parent of the then infant Barron Trump.
If the tape was attorney-client privileged, or even a client
secret, then it would violate ethics for Cohen to leak it. It would, similarly,
be a breach for Giuliani or any of Trump’s other lawyers to leak it without
Trump’s consent.
So, either Trump leaked this himself, or someone violated
the lawyers’ code of ethics. Trump
should be asked. If he denies directing the leak himself, then an ethics
investigation would be appropriate. Of course, it is conceivable that the
investigation would turn up that there was no lawyerly breach, Trump having
lied on the point.
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