(07-21-2018 10:41 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(07-21-2018 10:01 PM)At Ease Wrote:  

Quote:Michael Cohen’s secret tape was originally deemed ‘privileged’ – but Trump’s team blabbed about it anyway: Source

President Donald Trump blasted his former lawyer Michael Cohen for secretly recording him, suggesting that doing so may have been illegal.

But it was Trump's own legal team that decided to release a tape of the two men discussing a possible payment to a Playboy model, which had been deemed "privileged" in a federal court, a source with knowledge told CNBC.

"Very foolish strategy by Team Trump," the source added.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/21/trump-te...ource.html

The usual partisans blamed Mueller for the leak, despite it not even being his investigation, and despite Giuliani’s statements about the tapes exonerating Trump making clear who thought they would benefit from the leak...

Good to hear the opinion of a non-partisan like yourself, AE.

Still not clear who exactly leaked the tape in the first place. Non-partisans like At Ease say the Trump team did it, but it seems all they did was waive privilege on it after it was leaked.

"Giuliani confirmed to NBC News that Trump waived the privilege protection. “Yes, it was already out there so seemed no point in objecting except on principle," he told NBC."

Maybe AE can use his nonpartisan connections to show us that the original leak was from the Trump team.

In any case, I have to ask: What does this have to do with Trump-Russian collusion? What does it have to do with the 2016 election results? Maybe a nonpartisan could answer those questions.