New: #Trump notifies Judge Merchan of his intent to raise an advice-of-counsel defense at upcoming criminal trial in New York—sort of.
The defense, Trump says, isn't a "formal" advice-of-counsel defense—meaning that "there is no privilege waiver" of attorney-client communications #legal
@GottaLaff sounds like public messaging maneuver more than a legal one. This BS gets shot down by the judge and then Trump publicly whines that the judge is biased because he won’t listen to Trump saying he got bad advice.
@GottaLaff Glad to read these comments and see I’m not the only one confused.
To me it sounds like “I got bad advice from my lawyer that caused me to do illegal stuff, but I’m not going to tell you what that advice was.” Which seems an awful lot like “I hear voices…
It’s just so profoundly absurd. You can’t say, “I relied on the good faith advice of counsel” and prohibit the other side from exploring whether the advice was sought in good faith and with apprising the lawyer of all relevant circumstances. Because without those things, it doesn’t negate mens rea.
It’s what Trump loves best, manufacturing innocence by fiat. The. Law. Doesn’t. Work. Like. That.
@Bam@dangrsmind@GottaLaff
I'm not a lawyer, but even I was pretty sure it doesn't work like that. This is right up there with him claiming that keeping all those top secret documents isn't a crime because "presidential records act"
Just...no
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