THIS IS BALLS!…..
Smelles like it could be seens as witness intiminadation BIG TIME….
But several lawyers do NOT think so……
Michael Cohen his former ‘bag man’ WILL be one of DA Btaggs main witness’s aginst Trump in the DA’s case….
SOOOOOOO?
Trump sueing the guy seems to be a straight out effort to derail the witness….
Could THIS bring a new charge against Trump?
Donald J. Trump on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against his former fixer, Michael D. Cohen, just weeks after being indicted in a case in which Mr. Cohen is expected to serve as a star witness.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, accuses Mr. Cohen of revealing Mr. Trump’s confidences and “spreading falsehoods” about him. It directly references Mr. Cohen’s role in the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal case against Mr. Trump, which stems from a hush-money payment Mr. Cohen made on the former president’s behalf in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
The case, while potentially far-fetched, suggests that Mr. Trump may be seeking to silence Mr. Cohen.
“It could be an attempt to pressure Michael Cohen not to testify, but that pressure is unlikely to work,” said Ellen C. Yaroshefsky, a professor specializing in legal ethics at Hofstra University’s law school.
She added that she did not think the lawsuit amounted to witness tampering under New York law, as it was not a direct attempt to interfere with Mr. Cohen’s testimony, and other legal experts concurred.
Yet in a statement on Wednesday, Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny J. Davis, argued, “Mr. Trump appears once again to be using and abusing the judicial system as a form of harassment and intimidation.” He added that Mr. Trump was apparently “terrified by his looming legal perils and is attempting to send a message to other potential witnesses who are cooperating with prosecutors against him.”….
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Mr. Trump has been eager to file the suit for some time, according to a person familiar with his thinking, even as some members of his legal team have discouraged him from doing so.
Stephen Gillers, a professor emeritus at the New York University School of Law who specializes in legal ethics, said that he saw no problems with the appropriateness of the lawsuit on its face….
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The lawsuit represents an escalation of the attacks on Mr. Cohen, whom Mr. Trump has also denounced as “a rat” and a liar….
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Mr. Cohen had previously sued Mr. Trump, and the current situation between the two men is the latest example of a pattern for Mr. Trump: He has often become locked in litigation with people who were previously allies, with each side suing or countersuing…..
Note….
One thing IS certain….
Donald Trump IS NOT afraid of using everything he can in the legal system unlike most other people….
One would assume Jack Smith and others are watching this and dotting their ‘i’s’ and crossing their ‘t’s’……
Aaron Katersky
@AaronKatersky
Former President Trump’s $500M lawsuit against his former lawyer Michael Cohen has been assigned to US District Court Judge Darrin Gayles, who was appointed by then-President Obama