Trump Called His Divorce Lawyer For "Advice"

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This morning, CNN host Chris Cuomo touched on an interesting detail related to the Wall St. Journal story that fraudster and sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump called lawyer Jay Goldberg for "advice" about whether his consigliere, Michael "Clown Roy Cohn" Cohen, would start cooperating with the Feds. It's noteworthy that Goldberg is a divorce lawyer who was part of Rump's legal team in his two divorces:

“'One of the president’s long-time legal advisers warns President Trump that Michael Cohen could flip on him as he is facing potential jail time in a criminal investigation. Now that is very, very early on in an analysis. We haven’t had any charges. there is no indictment against Michael Cohen.

So this man, Jay Goldberg, who has worked with the president in the past, two different divorces he’s done,' Cuomo elaborated. 'We must presume he’s a family law specialist and people don’t freelance in divorce work. For some reason he said the president called him for advice. I don’t know what he was asking for advice on, but somehow in that conversation he wound up discussing Michael Cohen and his possibility of flipping. That nobody who is facing 30 years stands up. We don’t know that Michael Cohen is facing that.'”

Clearly, Rump may be trying to gauge whether and how soon Cohen might crack and when to offer a pardon to his made man, so as to undermine the investigation into potential felonies committed by his fixer, either on his own or at Rump's direction.

But it's also fascinating that he'd call a divorce lawyer for "advice" regarding a Federal criminal matter. Could Rump be concerned about whether the prenuptial agreement he signed with his wife might be tossed out with the Stormy/McDougall scandals?  A divorce with a voided prenup and a split of assets more favorable to his wife could cripple his business (which he's never separated himself from). Why else would he call his former divorce lawyer? Remember that the whole issue of non-disclosure agreements and "catch and kill" schemes on Rump's behalf was to conceal his affairs from his wife. If adultery is the "kill" clause in the prenup, he knows he's in a world of hurt.

(photo: President Spanky and the missus, so happy)

Adultery And Prenups Don't Mix

Many have taken notice of the fact that serial sexual predator and liar Donald "Rump" Trump won't personally challenge adult film star Stormy Daniels' account of their affair in 2006, preferring to let his lawyer / fixer Michael "Roy Cohn" Cohen and spokesliars do that for him. Inside the 2016 Rump campaign's final weeks, the explosion of allegations from multiple women of assault by Rump (along with the confirmatory Access Hollywood tape) had staffers on edge, according to the Daily Beast:

"But in that final month on the trail, there was something else weighing on Trump’s mind, even more than the assault allegations. According to three top campaign officials, speaking to The Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, Trump began pressing senior staffers about the specific dates that the women were alleging that the assaults, affairs, or harassment took place." (emphasis added)

It's noteworthy that the dates were so important to him. The article continues:

"If the date fell within the time period of the early stage of his marriage to Melania Trump—and the birth of their son Barron—Trump would suddenly care more about the story and quiz campaign aides more closely about it. Officials concluded that Trump’s true concern was not so much being accused of sexual harassment as it was, in the words of one aide, about 'pissing off Melania.'” (emphasis added)

There are numerous articles about what would happen if the Rumps divorced, for example here, here, and here. What's not clear yet is whether their prenuptial agreement would be voided in whole or part if one or the other engaged in an adulterous affair, but it's doubtlessly one or the other. When it's proven that he engaged in affairs (with Daniels and Karen McDougal) while married to his wife, in violation of the prenup, Ms. Rump would stand to cash in bigly. That is what  the dates and "pissing off Melania" is all about; he doesn't care about her humiliation, her anger, or her betrayal. He's thinking about their prenuptial agreement stripping him of a lot of money / property if she decides to divorce, which we hope she does at the right time.