{"id":29552,"date":"2018-05-04T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29552"},"modified":"2018-05-04T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:40:10","slug":"how-do-we-keep-the-lies-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29552","title":{"rendered":"How do we keep the lies straight?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My head is continuing to spin on a swivel as I watch and listen to the explanations, excuses and walking back of statements regarding Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Rudy Guiliani and Stormy Daniels.<\/p>\n

Here is what is most confusing to me: Does a lawyer who works for his or her client do anything<\/em> “on the client’s behalf” without telling the client?<\/p>\n

I refer to that hush money payment that the lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels, the porn star who alleges having a one-night tryst with Donald Trump (Cohen’s client). Trump says he didn’t have sex with Daniels … but Cohen made the payment anyway.<\/p>\n

Enter the former New York mayor, Giuliani, who now serves on the president’s legal team.<\/p>\n

Trump has denied any knowledge of Cohen’s payment to Daniels to keep her quiet about the (alleged) tumble she took with Trump. Then the ex-mayor says Trump knew about it after all. Giuliani adds that Cohen made the payment without telling Trump precisely why he made it.<\/p>\n

Huh? Do I have that essentially correct?<\/p>\n

A lawyer worth a damn — and it’s not clear to me that Cohen fits that description — doesn’t shell out a six-figure payment to someone on the client’s behalf without telling him in the moment<\/em>, if not beforehand. Isn’t that what good lawyers do?<\/p>\n

I’m not a lawyer. That’s patently obvious. Another lawyer, though, is certainly paying careful attention to all of this. He’s a good one, too. That would be special counsel Robert Mueller, who has hired a legal team that is poring over all of the bobbing, weaving, dodging and ducking.<\/p>\n

Stay alert, Mr. Special Counsel.<\/p>\n\n

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My head is continuing to spin on a swivel as I watch and listen to the explanations, excuses and walking back of statements regarding Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Rudy Guiliani and Stormy Daniels. Here is what is most confusing to me: Does a lawyer who works for his or her client do anything “on the … Continue reading How do we keep the lies straight?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,7694,3688,3983,6731,7100,7555],"class_list":["post-29552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-michael-cohen","tag-potus","tag-robert-mueller","tag-rudy-giuliani","tag-special-counsel","tag-stormy-daniels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29553,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552\/revisions\/29553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}