www.seattletimes.com/…
The tiny portion of materials seized in a raid that have been kept so far from prosecutors probing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney mainly pertain to his communications with other lawyers in which he sought or received legal advice, a judge said Friday.
Wood gave her approval to the designation of 161 items so far as subject to attorney-client privilege out of over 300,000 items found on phones and eight boxes of materials taken from Cohen’s home and office.
Ok, so 161 of 300,000 are being designated as Privileged. Still a miniscule number. BUT —
The judge said 112 of the 161 items were text messages and 28 were emails between Cohen and his lawyers in which they exchange legal advice.
So 140 of the 161 items are him getting legal advice from his lawyers for himself.
But if you look closely at the actual order here:
Literally only 8 items (emails) are the only communications between Cohen and a client being withheld as privileged. EIGHT! The rest are all just communications with his own lawyers, and 7 items were designated as highly personal and not relevant to the case.
I am not a law expert, but it appears Cohen and Trump have until Midnight June 27th to attempt to object (which it doesn’t appear like anyone is doing), by which time as per the above order all items will be turned over to the government.