I'm not even surprised, much less shocked. It's the Trump / MAGA brand at this point. |
| viagra. all I can think of - his massive supply of viagra |
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I hope she has recordings as well.
My concern: Can a court admit the recording if Rudy was talking about Trump while Trump was a client? |
Yes. Attorney-client privilege doesn’t cover the commission of a crime. |
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Somehow one of the least f**ked up allegations in this thing is that Rudy and Trump were selling pardons for $2 million a pop:
"132. [Giuliani] also asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split. He told Ms. Dunphy that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through “the normal channels” of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act." |
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Somehow one of the least f**ked up allegations in this thing is that Rudy and Trump were selling pardons for $2 million a pop:
"132. [Giuliani] also asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split. He told Ms. Dunphy that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through “the normal channels” of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act." Okay, combining the information in this post and the one before it helps me understand. If Rudy had talked about just Trump selling pardons, it might have been covered by attorney-client privilege. However, if Rudy was advancing a joint criminal enterprise (them selling pardons together), the privilege does not apply. |
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Interesting that Rudy and Trump were already planning to proclaim the election was rigged if Trump lost - a year before the election.
Before Covid. Before any changes to early or absentee voting. |
Attorney-client privilege does not count if a crime is committed. Read the link above. It's the entire 70-page lawsuit and it only took me about 20 minutes to read, with interruptions. It points out where she has tapes of a conversation. She even taped a statement by Rudy allowing her to tape all their business. She has a tape of him saying he and Trump sold pardons for $2 million. Also, NY is a one-party consent to record state. She has tapes of sexual activity. Pro tip for bosses: sex with an employee is not considered consensual. Nothing in his language suggests it's consensual or that there's any affection or attraction on her part. She also has him on tape repeatedly saying he's hiding money from the wife he's divorcing. Big trouble. |
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The $2 million for a pardon offer was reported by the NYT back in 2021.
https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-associate-reportedly-trump-pardon-costs-2-million-nyt-2021-1?op=1 John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative, was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2012 for disclosing the identity of a fellow officer involved in waterboarding. Kiriakou told The Times that he had sought a pardon through other people with connections to the president — in order to carry a handgun and access his pension — but that the topic came up during an unrelated boozy meeting with Giuliani and his associates at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. Kiriakou told The Times that at one point, when Giuliani went to the restroom, one of the meeting attendees said that Giuliani could help but that "it's going to cost $2 million — he's going to want two million bucks." "I laughed. Two million bucks — are you out of your mind?" Kiriakou told the outlet. "Even if I had two million bucks, I wouldn't spend it to recover a $700,000 pension." The speculation is that the Giuliani associate who said Rudy would get him a a pardon for 2 million bucks was Lev Parnas. |
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I hope I don’t get flamed for this, but…the way I read the complaint, I have doubts that she was actually an employee. It seemed like she was more of a girlfriend who was willing to hold her nose and subjugate herself for money. She was his arm candy and also someone who he bounced ideas. (Stupid ones) off and she played that role. In looking at some of the texts where she mentions Neimens or the Valentines Day hotel, that is not work. Her picture of herself on a golf course, in a short dress, is not something that an executive would wear. From a legal perspective, I think she will have a very difficult time in proving she was an employee.
That being said, I do believe ALL the gross stuff he did and said and that he’s basically a sex-crazed raging sadistic alcoholic. But, misogynistic men who are in a power play with women and demean them are a dime a dozen, unfortunately. What I’m actually horrified about is that this man had access to power, abused that power, was willing to sell that access and treated our country ‘s security so recklessly and carelessly. That someone so corrupt and idiotic was in a such a position of power and influence and had access to classified information in our country blows my mind. |
Wut. If he was paying her, she was his employee. |
| PP just presented Rudy’s only defense. It won’t matter in the conversation about selling bribes. Didn’t he say several times that she was doing a good job? |
PP’s post is gross but there might be some legitimate issues raised - he wasn’t paying her. That’s one of the reasons for the lawsuit. |
| I remember in 2001 Rudi said that prostate cancer treatment made him impotent... I guess he conquered that since then? |
Imagine the horror of being hit on by the Goblin King...
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