"Sounds like Trump team worried Meadows will flip and cooperate with DOJ" : agree but also , former Presidents do NOT have executive privilege
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August 04, 2022
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Attorneys for?Donald Trump, the former president, are now in direct talks with officials from the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
CNN in its breaking news exclusive?calls it "the first sign of talks between the two sides as the criminal probe into January 6, 2021, accelerates."
"The talks revolve around whether Trump would be able to shield conversations he had while he was president from federal investigators," including "whether any communications that witnesses from the Trump West Wing had with the former president can be kept from a federal criminal grand jury under Trump's claims of executive privilege."
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Legal experts generally default to executive privilege resting with the sitting U.S. president, but DOJ has also not prosecuted former top Trump officials, including Mark Meadows, after Congress voted to convict him on contempt charges for not cooperating with the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack's investigation.
"Mark Meadows could be a key witness," CNN reveals.
"Trump has specifically been counseled to cut contact with his former White House chief of staff," CNN adds, "whose actions leading up to and on the day of the US Capitol insurrection have been deeply scrutinized by the House panel."
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"In recent months," CNN states, "the former President has ignored advice from some of his advisers to avoid speaking with former and current aides who have become entangled in the House select committee's probe into January 6 and may become part of the criminal investigation, people familiar with the matter told CNN."
NYU professor of law and former Special Counsel at the Dept. of Defense, Ryan Goodman, pointing to the Meadows news offered?this insight: "Sounds like Trump team worried Meadows will flip and cooperate with DOJ."
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What I think is going on, is that the legal team representing Trump know that former Presidents do NOT have executive privilege, and are trying to walk back from the ledge on this issue. Very foundational. It is also the same issue as Trump abusing non disclosure agreements (NDIs) as a global shield of denial and deflection from his own conduct. Even worse is that the former POTUS has tried to use "executive privilege " as a way to shut up former employees as to Trump being in a fight with the secret service staff over Trump's demand to be taken to the J6 riot in the capital steps. In addition Meadows is likely to be flipping on Trump, and the back and forth 'between the criminal investigation of Trump and Trumps team centers upon Trump's complete lack of self control.
In a word, something is going to break down. I would not be surprised if certain lawyers of Trump's legal team quit out of frustration by next week. The man, Trump is incapable of any messaging discipline
Trumps team cannot stick their heads in the sand forever about their client' complete lack of self control
Andrew Beckwith, PhD