LOTTA wiggle room in there⌠Lawyers pass it to Jared or Jr. who does the edits, then passes back through them, not covered⌠Any other edits the lawyers did do, not coveredâŚ
Jay Sekulow is the Rudy Giuliani of Alan Dershowitzes.
Yep, thatâs a narrow denial, alright. Now prove it. âCause Iâm guessing thereâs a markup somewhere.
Is ânarrowâ the right word to describe this denial? And it seems to me that if Cohen was telling the truth about this, Sekulowâs only recourse if heâs to save his professional skin is to lie and hope thereâs no documentation of the truth anywhere. Because at this point itâs not Cohen whoâs got more to lose by telling the truth than by lying.
Yes. It only covers that the lawyers didnât edit the Trump Tower date. So other parties could have.
And the lawyers could have edited every other word in the paper except the date, and this statement would be objectively trueâŚ
Yeah, saw your first comment and hit the âlikeâ button. Guessing that isnât narrow enough if he was aware of that particular âeditâ before the statement was finalized, but IAdefinitelyNAL.
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If Cohen has an initial draft (and odds are he saved one, lawyers do that with legal drafts), then there is something to compare to. Odds are Mueller has the draft now, which means he knows how it was changed, and he has Cohenâs testimony about what happenedâŚcorroborating what happened should be straightforward. Then, it becomes a matter of determining who exactly made the changes, at which point all bets are offâŚif the lawyers made the changes their careers are over, and if they didnât then they will roll on whoever did.
This does all depend on a draft existing somewhere, and it being subpoenaed or provided. Look for that to come up at some future point, itâs pretty important.
If Cohen didnât retain a copy of the original draft, then heâs an even worse lawyer than Iâve thought. Which doesnât seem possible.
Itâs also possible, given a very narrow interpretation of Sekulowâs words, that they told Cohen what the message of the text should be, and he did the actual edits. Manyâs the time someone up the chain from me simply made a notation like âunclearâ or âhow about Xâ or âFix this to reflect Yâ but never actually put in new text or altered the old. (Yeah, they were called âeditorsâ and I was the writer. Funny, that.)
âTodayâs testimony by Michael Cohen that attorneys for the President edited or changed his statement to Congress to alter the duration of the Trump Tower Moscow negotiations is completely false.â
âAttorneys for the Presidentâ. Now, can a lawyer employed privately by the man sitting in the Offal Office offer legal advice to that man without being the attorney for the President? Semantics. I would think that an attorney for the President would be acting on behalf of the President, where the President is acting in his official capacity. Can a lawyer employed privately by the man sitting in the Offal Office offer legal advice to or legal maneuvering for that man while the President is not acting in his official capacity?
Almost a worthless question with respect to the obvious: Trump is guilty of multiple crimes.
Heâs also the Jimmy Swaggart of Pat Robertsons.
Moreover, if only a single attorney, rather than âattorneys,â for the President edited Cohenâs statement, then one could argue that Sekulowâs statement were true.
Also, the lawyers could have told Cohen to change things, rather than literally changing them themselves.
I knew Alan Dershowitz. I served with Alan Dershowitz. Alan Dershowitz was a friend of mine (excuse me while I hurl!). You, Mr. Sekulow, are no Alan Dershowitz.
Hey, if you see Alan, can you ask him to score some insulin for me? Iâve got someone with a lot of money I want to get rid of.
The difference between Giuliani, Dershowitz and Sekulow (that sounds like the worst law firm in history) is that Sekulow actually practices and most likely really wants remain on the bar.
Does he, though? I ainât gonna look it up, because it is against my religion to look stuff up that I am pretty sure about, and it helps me keep my aging memory cells. But Jay Sekulow being hired by Trump is more recent than, say the seizure of the USS Pueblo by North Korea, which I remember pretty well. And when Sekulow was hired, his prior area of practice, if my memory cells are firing on all pistons, was GOP aligned religious freedom advocacy, which means imposition of mostly Southern (segregationist) and Mid Western variants of Protestantism on the rest of us as a guise for GOP political agenda things. I donât believe Sekulow has a back ground in criminal, real estate or any other real world law fields. There was a Trump real estate attorney who they tried to get put into the WH but that real estate guy ended up having to back off after talking smack out of turn about criminal law.
Am I wrong?
Didnât Cohen say the lawyers âreviewedâ it? I didnât see the words âeditâ, etc.