Watergate burglars invoke executive privilege!

[evoeth]

Lev Parnas, Trump's dirty tricks guy that he pretends not to know, has directly tied his crimes to Trump by invoking executive privilege.

Nothing to see here!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...90d144-f505-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html

NEW YORK — Two indicted associates of Rudolph W. Giuliani pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they violated campaign finance law and conspired to use foreign money to buy political influence, as one of their lawyers suggested President Trump could try to invoke executive privilege over some of the evidence in the case.

Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas — two Soviet emigres who hired Trump’s personal lawyer and then helped him investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden — made a brief appearance in federal court in a case that also has led federal investigators to scrutinize Giuliani’s interactions with the pair.

At the hearing, Parnas’s lawyer, Edward MacMahon, raised concerns to U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken that some of the evidence gathered in the case may be protected by attorney-client privilege or even executive privilege.
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[Hank77]

Executive Privilege:
The privilege that allows the president and other high officials of the executive branch to keep certain communications private if disclosing those communications would disrupt the functions or decision-making processes of the executive branch. As demonstrated by the Watergate hearings, this privilege does not extend to information germane to a criminal investigation.
(emphasis mine)
Executive Privilege

I believe this case is a criminal investigation, isn't it?