There is something crushingly ironic in a recent letter received by former Trump counsel Michael Cohen from current Trump counsel Charles Harder. Cohen has been getting the word out that he is writing a tell-all book in his latest effort to cash in on his scandalous career. He then received a letter from Harder that he will sue Cohen if he violates . . . you guessed it . . . his nondisclosure agreement (NDA). The same grounds that Cohen used against Stormy Daniels. Speaking of Daniels, she also received mail from Harder, who is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for attorneys fees used to represent Trump against her (also a threat made by Cohen in prior litigation). There are two critical differences in all of this. First, unlike Cohen, Harder is a competent lawyer. Second, Harder actually has a strong case against both individuals.
A friend of Cohen got the word out through the Daily Beast and other publications that “A lot of [the book] will be about looking at things he’s said and done with women and other [politically incorrect] things. It’ll be an insider’s look about what it was like to be alongside the president for 12 years.”
It is vintage Michael Cohen. Not only is he still trying to use anyone and anything to make a buck, but he is entirely discarding any ethical and contractual concerns over the interests of his former client. He presumably obtained this information when doing confidential work for his client since, given his notorious reputation as a legal thug, few people would be interested in Michael Cohen’s view of publicly available facts.
According to the Daily Beast, Harder is citing an NDA that Cohen signed. Most attorneys do not need an NDA since ethics rules are sufficient to prevent such disclosures, which is precisely why Harder needs to cite the NDA to Cohen.
Harder could simply take some of Cohen’s own words when he was threatening journalists, students, and others deemed a threat to Trump. For example in threatening a journalist, Cohen wrote:
“Mark my words for it, I will make sure that you and I meet one day over in the courthouse and I will take you for every penny you still don’t have, and I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know. Do not even think about going where I know you’re planning on going. And that’s my warning for the day.”
Cohen then morphs into a bad rendition of a mobster after being asked for a statement: He warns Mak to “tread very f–king lightly because what I’m going to do to you is going to be f–ing disgusting. . . . Do you understand me? Don’t think you can hide behind your pen because it’s not going to happen. . . . I’m more than happy to discuss it with your attorney and with your legal counsel because motherf—er you’re going to need it.”
Or he could just cite the NDA and wait for Cohen to be Cohen.
Harder also went after Daniels for what could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Daniels sued Trump over a tweet that ridiculed Daniels over her release of a sketch of a man who Daniels claimed approached her one day in a threatening manner after she went public. It was the subject of widespread ridicule, particularly after the sketch was shown to bear striking resemblance to Daniels’ former boyfriend. Trump tweeted that it was “a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!”
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As a public figures in a national controversy, Daniels was in a poor position to bring such a lawsuit. Moreover, this was a widely shared view. After she predictably lost the case, Harder hit her with an anti-SLAPP statute claim. Judge S. James Otero agreed and ordered that Daniels pay $292,052.33 in attorney fees and a $1,000 penalty sanction herself under the Texas Citizen Participation Act.
That looked largely symbolic until Daniels recently won a recent false arrest case. Harder jumped on the news with a new filing in federal court.
To Mr. Trump’s knowledge, Ms. Clifford does not possess any assets in this jurisdiction. Ms. Clifford is a resident of Texas and owns no real property in California. In contrast, she possesses substantial assets in the Southern District of Ohio in the form of the $450,000 in settlement funds being held by that court. Accordingly, Mr. Trump respectfully requests that the Court certify the Attorneys’ Fees Order for registration in the Southern District of Ohio.
He could win that case.
By the way, another figure Michael Avenatti is back in the news. Unlike Cohen who is still awaiting a compassionate release due to the pandemic, Avenatti was released for at least 90 days to go into home confinement in the home of a friend in Venice, California. Avenatti is due to be sentenced on extortion charges in June.
So, if you thought Trump NDAs, Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, and Michael Avenatti are so 2018, think again.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/academic-absurdity-of-all-time.php
While we’re at it, another taste of what the left is doing to intellectual life.
I think this is from an old TV show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY6-HvE5YdU
Maybe the CDC needs to hire some fiction writers. 🙂
An HCQ study about to be released. Small but important.
Allan says:May 6, 2020 at 11:14 PM
Anonymous you can act like an as$. You can tell people how they should feel while they help others you sit at hope [sic] and do whatever. They did something to help people. What you can do can only be imagined.
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I’m certainly not sitting at home, but as TIA likes to say, “I don’t do bio.” Like Young, Allan is projecting. Again.
These people now threatened with a tax whether or not it will be collected should not be put in that situation. A simple statement from the state would clarify the issue but no statement to my knowledge has yet been released.
You have demeaned these charitable people while sitting in a secure location at your computer. This demonstrates the type of person you are, very egocentric, uncaring and nasty.
I am glad I got your attention.
Young, you’re either a foreign troll or a far-right activist; ‘you’, Estovir, Kentucky Dave and all those puppet stooges.
Your main purpose on this blog is to ‘poison the well’. Meaning you want to inflame tensions to a breaking point. So that conservatives and liberals no longer interact with each other. And this agenda would be perfectly in keeping with foreign trolls, ‘or’ rightwing stooges. ‘Malicious parasites’ is probably the term that best sums up your group.
The right certainly has no monopoly on stooges. Why did you stoop to name calling … did you have no actual argument?
More BS from Young:
Young says:May 6, 2020 at 11:08 PM
If ANONYMOUS had read the article it would know volunteer organizations are already worried about the additional tax burden.
Progressives never worry about taxes other people have to pay.
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Young is leaping to yet another unfounded conclusion. She obviously has nothing better to do than hang out here and bloviate. Maybe she could get on the horn to Cuomo or Cuomo’s office…, but that would mean taking some action, rather than just talk, talk, talking…
Maybe she’ll change her tune when she’s had some real experience with this virus.
Anonymous, Young is ‘not’ a basic commenter. His main thrust is fomenting anger among Trump supporters. More than half of Young’s comments are built on rage. What’s more, these grievances by Young are invariably based on obscure rightwing sources. Young can’t even use Fox. Furthermore Young is incapable of debating without inserting baseless smears.
The truth is, there is very little difference between the antics of Young and the antics of Estovir. If they’re not the same person, they are certainly related. They didn’t just meet on these threads.
Seth Warner, commenters Young and Estovir are different people and are unlikely to be related.
Well, everybody in the world is 28th cousin or closer…
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David, the personalities are slightly different. But there’s not much light of day between their comments and replies. Though maybe among deplorables they fit a certain niche.
Seth Warner, it appears to me that the two know about different matters. Estovir is a Catholic who knows something of the biomedical literature. Young claims undergraduate study of philosophy, followed by study for an LL.B.
As far as sociology and economics goes, both appear — well, biased.
And stubbornly ignorant.
Void of content.
Yes, most of your comments are.