Judge Refuses To Let Trump Shield Documents From Investigators

A judge in New York on Tuesday refused to allow Donald Trump to continue shielding documents from his organization from investigators in New York. This case is really starting to heat up, and these are crimes that Trump can't pardon himself for, so it is the real deal. Farron Cousins explains what is happening.

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Donald Trump suffered a, another major legal blow this week. When a judge in New York state ruled that he cannot claim lawyer, client privilege for documents that investigators at the, uh, New York attorney General's office have been asking for with regards to a property that he owns in Westchester, New York. Uh, they think in this particular instance, why they're going after the Westchester property in addition to many others, but Westchester in general, uh, they believe that he told a lie to state, uh, tax officials with regards to the property's worth in order to get certain tax incentives that would be state tax fraud. Um, so that's what they're looking at with the Westchester property. And Trump sent his lawyers to court to say, Hey, you can't have the documents they want because that's protected under, you know, lawyer, client confidentiality. Sorry, you, you can't have those and listen. Yeah.

Okay. Confidentiality exists. But when it comes to investigations and other legal matters, that confidentiality typically is, uh, easily thrown out. Let's just say that. Sure. You couldn't subpoena documents that might have your clients saying to their lawyer. Oh, hell yeah, I did this. That's great. But if it's just a general transactional document, then yes, I'm sorry. You're not going to get confidentiality for that. And that would appear to be what this is, but folks let's think of one other thing here. Why has this man, Donald J. Trump been fighting so hard for years now with these investigations going on? Why is he fighting so hard to hide every single thing from investigators? I mean, I really think it's time. We just straight up look at that objectively.

He's hiding for a reason. And, and, and I think we all know what the reason is. Michael Cohen during his testimony to Congress a couple of years ago told us what that reason is. The reason is because he's likely guilty as hell. Michael Cohen said he was guilty. Uh, we obviously cannot say that he is guilty. We have to, you know, say that he is likely he is allegedly. But I think at this point, we all know it's pretty dang obvious. You're not going to go through and hide all these documents. You're not going to continuously go into court and argue that you're immune from prosecution. If you have nothing to hide, if there's nothing wrong, you have the money, you have the, you know, ability to hire good lawyers. Unlike the rest of the people in this country who have to, you know, fight things like this and try to get them.

No, you don't even have to do that. You could just straight up be like, all right, cool. I'll have my day in court. Let's do this right now. Let's go. You want all these documents here? They all are. You will see that. They tell the story of my innocence. There is nothing here that can be misconstrued. There is nothing here that implicates me or my organization. Let's do it. Guys. Let's have it out. Let's have the judge or the jury make this determination and you can go there and show us what kind of evidence you have. I am ready for it, but that's not what he's doing. He saying, Oh, you want these documents? No, you can't have them. And I will fight you all the way to the Supreme court to prevent you from getting your hands on these. Oh shoot. I lost this. Okay, well, I'm going to do it over here with this one. It's just like with his bank records. And now with these records, from the lawyers folks, he is fighting so hard to keep these things secret because he knows that this

Is a big deal. He

Can't pardon himself for any of the things that, that New York attorney general Latisha James is investigating. Those are state crimes. He could only pardon himself for federal crimes, which maybe that's why he got rid of bill Burr, a bar. Now bill Burr, sorry, bill Burr, bill BARR. Um, but who knows? He can't pardon himself. Anyway. He may try, but it's not going to work. So here we are. These cases against him are moving forward. Now they're moving forward rapidly now because these investigators all know that there is a lot of people out there suing this guy. And all of those continuances that he has gotten on these cases will effectively expire. I guess you would say, uh, on January 20th, he no longer has the I'm the president. You can't come after me defense anymore.