Thread by @tomiahonen

Crooked Lawyer Thread 1/

I am troubled by a pattern. And am stunned this does not get more attention. In the Trumpomob there is a web of crooked attorneys. That is a kind of 'turbocharging' of the criming conducted around Trump. This is not NEW. Goes back DECADES

Let's Thread

Crooked Lawyer Thread 2/

Trump court jester and alleged attorney Evan Corcoran is at Federal Grand Jury today, for Jack Smith's investigation about stolen classified documents - testifying, after courts ruled 'client-attorney privilege' was breached by 'crime-fraud exception'

Crooked Lawyer Thread 3/

So let's start there. The 'client-attorney privilege' is a cornerstone of the legal system. A client, no matter how guilty, must be able to trust that his consultation with his attorney cannot be revealed to a judge or jury or the police, ever. Ever.

Crooked Lawyer Thread 4/

The legal system including SCOTUS rulings, is crystal clear about this. Those discussions between client and attorney are sacred. The ATTORNEY cannot represent accurately the client's best interest, unless the client TRUTHFULLY explains the TOTAL story

Crooked Lawyer Thread 5/

CLIENTS cannot DARE to tell the truth to their attorney, if they do not trust, these will never be revealed by that attorney to anyone, not even to that crooked client's "spouse"

Client-attorney privilege is sacred

BUT is NOT a license to commit crimes

Crooked Lawyer Thread 6/

Because of the obvious temptation to then use an ATTORNEY to HELP PLAN CRIMES - because of that client-attorney privilege protection, the legal exception is 'crime-fraud exception'. All attorneys learn this in law school. Their ethics COMPEL them

Crooked Lawyer Thread 7/

All attorneys know, that if they assist a client in committing a crime (or fraud) they will be disbarred and go to prison. That 'crime-fraud exception' nullifies the 'client-attorney privilege'. Any ethical attorney stops the client, says that is illegal

Crooked Lawyer Thread 8/

We saw what a catastrophic kleptocracy the Trump White House was. But the ATTORNEYS of the White House were constantly telling Trump - you cannot do this, you cannot do that. We saw it vividly in Jan 6th testimony. Trump HATED the White House attorneys

Crooked Lawyer Thread 9/

That is why Trump had his shadow government run by crooked attorneys like Giuliani, Eastman and the Diet Dutchess of Dr Pepper.

I want to dig into this crime-fraud exception. If you hire crooked attorneys, you become a kind of supervillain. THEY plan it

Crooked Lawyer Thread 10/

Case 1: Michael Cohen. Michael was Trump's 'fixer', not Trump's actual attorney for legal matters. Cohen was the bulldog to go bully the press and threaten everybody with million-dollar lawsuits if they published (true) stories that Trump did not like

Crooked Lawyer Thread 11/

Trump loves Mafia stories, incl the Godfather movies. He (and Michael Cohen himself) saw Cohen as a kind of criminal consiglieri. Trump had OTHER (ethical) attorneys doing his lawsuits (Trump has been in 3,600 court cases, lost almost all)

Crooked Lawyer Thread 12/

The 'trick' with Michael Cohen was, that Trump had his personal attorney for the illegal shit. To make Cohen seem independent, he had a handful of clients (Broidy the dude who took Trump's abortion as his own & Hannity, Trump's first illegitimate son)

Crooked Lawyer Thread 13/

And Cohen had his own office. In Trump tower, a couple of floors below Trump offices. This was Trump's most secure 'safe'. Trump trusted that an attorney's office will never be raided, so Trump kept his most crooked evidence in Cohen's office. Including

Crooked Lawyer Thread 14/

Included in Michael Cohen office files for safekeeping away from any invasion by FBI, was the DOUBLE BOOKKEEPING file of crooked accounts by Trump's closest criminal accomplice, Allen Weisselberg. Trump trusted this office was 'sacrosanct'.

Crooked Lawyer Thread 15/

The Mueller investigation was a nightmare for Trumpomobsters. Mueller caught General Flynn, Manafort, Roger Stone etc. It doesn't matter that Trump PARDONED these criminals later, Mueller CAUGHT them and the DOJ prosecuted them to conviction (& prison)

Crooked Lawyer Thread 16/

Mueller, the FBI & DOJ had ABSOLUTELY no cause to go raid Michael Cohen's office based on EVERYTHING Mueller's year-long investigation with FBI had uncovered. They CAUGHT Manafort, Flynn etc, but had no 'cause' to raid Cohen office

..until a brave lady

Crooked Lawyer Thread 17/

It was a brave lady who stood up to Trump, alone, & provided Mueller with proof, that Michael Cohen's office contains unique evidence of a crime Cohen had committed for Trump. She is of course Stormy Daniels, an American hero

The Crime-Fraud Exception!

Crooked Lawyer Thread 18/

Only because of Stormy, was Mueller able to convince a judge, to authorize the search of the LAWYER office of Michael Cohen, Trump's attorney. I want to dig a bit deeper on this judge's order for the search warrant

Crooked Lawyer Thread 19/

Even if cops convince judge there is a crooked lawyer with evidence of a crime the judge will NOT authorize the search warrant

unless

That evidence cannot be procured any other way (a copy exists elsewhere)

AND

That attorney...

Crooked Lawyer Thread 20/

And that attorney has a HISTORY of proven behavior, which convinces the judge, that this attorney will not honor a subpoena, but will destroy that evidence instead

Only THEN will judge authorize that search warrant

FBI raided Michael Cohen in Apr 2018

Crooked Lawyer Thread 21/

We KNOW Michael Cohen was a crooked attorney. He FREELY admits it. He confessed, he was tried, went to prison, and has been disbarred

but in 2018, Cohen was part of Trumpomob - and had been crookedly lawyering for Trump for a DOZEN YEARS prior

Crooked Lawyer Thread 22/

Michael Cohen was already in 2016 known to be TOO crooked to join Trump White House (he was quite bitter about it). Chris Christie who did the recruiting, blocked Cohen's appointment to White House counsel office. Trump WANTED his crooked attorney there

Crooked Lawyer Thread 23/

During the first 15 months of Trump Presidency, he would REGULARLY bring Michael Cohen into White House conversations by phone. Michael RECORDED these phone calls (DOJ has those tapes, they were kept in his office)

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So after Michael Cohen where did Trump go for someone more crooked?

Case 2: Sir Buttdial di Rudipants

Trump selected every child's Christmas nightmare, of course: Rudolf the Ex Attorney. Giuliani

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Let me mention. Since his confession, Michael Cohen has walked the straight & narrow, and is a RELIABLE source on the Trumomob. I recommend you follow him at @MichaelCohen212 and buy his books and follow his podcast

Let's do Rudy Colludy next

Crooked Lawyer Thread 26/

Trump's new fixer, and 'wartime consiglieri' became Rudy Giuliani. America's Mayor turned America's Vampire. What did Trump ask Rudy go do first? To destroy Trump's 2020 Presidential rival, Joe Biden. To go manufacture shit about Biden's son, Hunter

Crooked Lawyer Thread 27/

Trump sent Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman to Ukraine to manufacture utterly bullshit dirt about Hunter Biden so that Trump could use these lies in the 2020 election to crush Joe Biden. That was the plan. A shadow foreign policy against the USA

Crooked Lawyer Thread 28/

Igor Fruman pleaded guilty to some charges, went to prison. Lev Parnas tried to flip against Rudy & Trump, did not get a deal, then fought it in courts, lost, and went to prison. The whole Ukraine gambit went haywire so badly, it led to Impeachment 1

Crooked Lawyer Thread 29/

But how crooked IS Giuliani? He THREATENED the sitting US President with his insurance file.

Bill Barr put Giuliani on a secret wiretap (forgot to mention this to Trump) and the FBI recorded all of Rudy's conversations, texts, emails etc with Trump

Crooked Lawyer Thread 30/

Did Giuliani plot CRIMES with Trump? Lets see what a judge thought

Rudy's office (and home) were raided by FBI. So the DOJ had to convince a judge - remember Michael Cohen raid - that there exists evidence of a crime Rudy committed with Trump..

Crooked Lawyer Thread 31/

AND that this evidence existed nowhere else (Trump was now storing his extortion files with Rudy)

And that this evidence could not be secured from any other source like a subpoena to the email provider

AND WORST OF ALL.. .. that the lawyer was so..

Crooked Lawyer Thread 32/

And worst of all, the DOJ had to convince a judge, that Rudy was so corrupt, he would not honor a subpoena and hand over the evidence, Giuliani would rather destroy the evidence

ONLY THEN would a judge authorize such a search warrant on an attorney

Crooked Lawyer Thread 33/

This is the SECOND TIME in THREE YEARS, that a Trump attorney office was raided by FBI.

This is UTTERLY TOTALLY UNPRECEDENTED. Or in Trumpian words: "Unpresidented". Rudy the Ex Attorney behavior was indeed 'ridiclious'

Crooked Lawyer Thread 34/

When Trump found that he was going to be kicked out of office, and Giuliani was busy trying to overturn the election results, Trump needed an EVEN MORE crooked attorney

Case 3: John Eastman

The failed Indiana Jones impersonator and alleged attorney...

Crooked Lawyer Thread 35/

John Eastman is the mastermind of the January 6th attempted coup d'etat

He TRIED TO TERMINATE DEMOCRACY in America

...to have Trump declared king. King Donald The Worst (as distinct form King Donald the Wurst, a foul sausage)

Crooked Lawyer Thread 36/

John Norseman-Eastwind-Southpaw-Westend tried to declare his communications were protected by client-attorney privilege

So a Judge reviewed them

And said, no, John Eastman. These are not protected because of .......... crime-fraud exception!

Crooked Lawyer Thread 37/

Client-attorney communications are SACRED. Only if a corrupt criminal attorney attempts to use this sacred protection to COMMIT A CRIME - is that protection pierced. It is 'crime-fraud exception'

Eastman was found by a judge to COMMIT CRIMES with Trump

Crooked Lawyer Thread 38/

For all the despicable scum that is Giuliani, John Eastman - a trained lawyer - came to a known psycopath bound on revenge - Donald Trump & HELPED TRUMP try to END DEMOCRACY

John Eastman is pure evil shitbag. He needs life without parole. In Guantanamo

Crooked Lawyer Thread 39/

Tweeps? This is not an accident. This is not coincidence. This is a PATTERN

Michael Cohen, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. THREE crooked attorneys who were FOUND BY JUDGES - TO HAVE COMMITTED CRIMES with their client, Donald Trump

Crooked Lawyer Thread 40/

I am not going to even bother with Alina Habba the Jutt or Kevin Cheesebro, or Christina Bobblehead or Fred Flintstone's evil Nazi cousin Bill Barrstone, or Captain Underpants whom Trump wanted to appoint as AG when he felt Barr was not crooked enough!

Crooked Lawyer Thread 41/

We end this Thread marathon with

Case 4: Evan Corcoran

Evan was brought in to handle Trump crimes of stealing classified documents, where MANDATORY MINIMUM prison time takes Trump to 1,000 years in prison

Is Corcoran a criminal? Is Melonia Slovenian?

Crooked Lawyer Thread 42/

Trump ONLY HIRES crooked attorneys. Duh. Of COURSE Evan Corcoran is a criminal

Did a JUDGE consider his criminality? Yes. Not one judge. FOUR federal judges UNANIMOUSLY found Evan the Corcoran to be Evan the Corruptian

Crooked Lawyer Thread 43/

Remember crime-fraud exception. Corcocan testified to Jack Smith's Grand Jury, and tried to claim 'client-attorney privilege'

Jack knew better. He took it to judge. Judge reviewed the evidence and said: 'Crime-fraud exception' and Evan MUST testify

Crooked Lawyer Thread 44/

Trump crooked attorneys have gone EVERY MORE EVIL.

The Corcoran case was sent to DC Appeals court. His criming with Trump is so enormously dangerous to USA, that appeals which usually take MONTHS, was decided in HOURS. UNANIMOUS decision by 3 judges

Crooked Lawyer Thread 45/

FOUR judges concluded that Corcoran cannot hide behind client-attorney privilege because of 'crime-fraud' exception. Evan CRIMED with Trump

On what? on FUCKING ESPIONAGE. He HELPED TRUMP HIDE FUCKING ESPIONAGE

Trump is a child. CORCOCAN IS A MONSTER