Maybe Ty Cobb Just Doesn't Get This Whole 'Client Confidentiality' Thing

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Cross-posted from the thread Trump lawyers spill beans, thanks to terrible choice of restaurant

SMH. Really. Think how much he must be billing.

IANAL, and I've never been arrested, but if I'm not mistaken, the first thing your attorney will tell you to do if you have been arrested is to SHUT UP. And we're talking attorneys from law schools that don't even have a tier.

Maybe Ty Cobb Just Doesn’t Get This Whole ‘Client Confidentiality’ Thing

Trump's top lawyers regale restaurant with claims of hidden documents.

By JOE PATRICE
at 10:33 AM

Donald Trump attorney and self-appointed “adult in the room” Ty Cobb has a lot of us wondering if there’s just too low a bar for “adult” at this point. Because holding strategy meetings about the single most important criminal probe in the country at a popular restaurant in a city absolutely lousy with reporters seems like a rookie mistake. ... On the other hand, if this case goes awry, Cobb may have a future in dinner theater.

It’s another bizarre flub from Cobb, the former Hogan Lovells partner who joined the Trump team to provide a steadying influence that seemed more imperative than ever after Marc Kasowitz finally bowed out under public scrutiny for engaging in a flame war with a random online critic. Since then, Cobb has… engaged in a flame war with a random online critic. Baby steps.

Yesterday, Peter Baker and Kenneth P. Vogel of the New York Times broke the news that Ty Cobb and fellow Trump team heavy John Dowd had a leisurely lunch last week at BLT Steak, a restaurant near the White House, and decided to use the time productively by loudly divulging all manner of internal gripes about the defense strategy.

Here's a photo of Ty Cobb & John Dowd casually & loudly discussing details of Russia investigation at @BLTSteakDC while I sat at next table.

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I guess Dowd and Cobb thought the patron was just Snapchatting their food, and not writing their editor, “THIS IS WHY I EXPENSE MY F**KING LUNCHES, TOM!!!” (1)

(1) http://abovethelaw.com/2017/09/maybe-ty-cobb-just-doesnt-get-this-whole-client-confidentiality-thing/#f1

I love this comment:

Replying to @kenvogel @BLTSteakDC
Like watergate, but with stupid people.

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[Not Ruth]

1. Am guessing it was a setup, if it seems too easy, something is not right

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Hanlon's razor

Hanlon's razor is an aphorism expressed in various ways including "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" or "Don't assume bad intentions over neglect and misunderstanding." It recommends a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for a phenomenon (a philosophical razor).

As an eponymous law, it may have been named after Robert J. Hanlon. There are also earlier sayings that convey the same idea dating back at least as far as Goethe in 1774.

[Hortensis]

4. Yes, and stupidity is the common denominator of this administration,

strengthening the argument. Even many of their constant expressions of dishonesty and amorality can probably be traced back to that. Of course there are also sociopaths among them who understand right and wrong well enough but couldn't care less.

Not Ruth may be spot on in that this reportedly takes place in the context of a feud between Rump's lawyers and WH counsel, malice in abundance, but still "like Watergate but with stupid people."

[underpants]

3. Don't they know about the available technology to prevent this from happening?

[Gothmog]

5. This is amazing and so very unprofessional

[MLAA]

6. Stupid and thinking they can get away with anything just like the asshole who hired them.

You know the old saying 'Takes one to hire one'.

[madinmaryland]

7. I think they were drunk. Wonder how many

Bottles of wine they drank.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. How incompetence is saving the nation from the worst of Trump's madness.

Hahahahahahaha.

Ty Cobb's al fresco lunch -- and how incompetence is saving the nation from the worst of Trump's madness.

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