(08-02-2023, 09:25 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(08-02-2023, 02:41 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: If anyone was wondering whether or not Trump's defense would largely be to throw his advisors and previous lawyers under the bus... Yes, that will probably be the strategy.

A recently released statement from his camp ends with:

Welp - looks like I called this one - or at least this article sees the same thing coming:

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status...88385?s=20

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https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status...88385?s=20

It won't work because their's too much evidence showing he knew what he was doing was illegal and not just a "controversial interpretation of the law." 
It might however, get him off a little bit easier.

Just some quick reading on the "advice of counsel" defense.  If this defense is invoked, then attorney-client privilege is effectively waived.  The prosecutor has to be able to see if the attorney knew all relevant facts of the client's situation at the time the advice was given.  Also, Trump received advice from other lawyers that his actions were actually illegal.  He basically went lawyer shopping until he found an answer he liked.  That's not the type of situation where the defense usually applies.  The doctrine was not framed with the idea that one just has to shop for a patsy with a license to practice law and then you can do whatever you want.

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