A federal appeals court wasted no time in rejecting former President Donald Trump's appeal of an order forcing his lawyer to testify and turn over evidence over which he had asserted attorney-client privilege.
Judge Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the D.C. district court, last week ordered Trump attorney Evan Corcoran to testify about topics he previously refused to discuss before a federal grand jury investigating classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago and to turn over evidence, including "handwritten notes, invoices and transcriptions of personal audio recordings." Howell's order came after special counsel Jack Smith's team found evidence that Trump may have intentionally misled Corcoran to use his services in furtherance of a crime, invoking the crime-fraud exception that allows prosecutors to pierce attorney-client privilege.
