Donald Trump‘s current lawyer Rudy Giuliani has warned Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, that he should not talk about the president because it violates “client and attorney privilege.”

He also confirmed that a joint defense agreement to share information between the Trump and Cohen camps has been severed.

Giuliani made the claim in an ABC report published on Saturday.

“We’ve indicated to them that they should respect the client and attorney privilege in different ways,” Giuliani told ABC.
“We have complained to them that he’s violated the attorney client privilege, publicly and privately.”

Guiliani’s warning comes after he very publicly called Cohen a liar on CNN, despite praising his honesty just months prior.

That smear on Cohen’s credibility was in response to reports that Cohen was willing to tell Robert Mueller that Donald Trump knew of the now infamous Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer.

Giuliani’s caution to Cohen also comes in the same week as a tape was released by CNN that includes a conversation between President Trump and Cohen talking about a hush money payout.

Update: Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis has fired back.

Cohen’s lawyer @LannyDavis fires back: “Mr. Giuliani seems to be confused. He expressly waived attorney client privilege last week and repeatedly and inaccurately – as proven by the tape – talked and talked about the recording, forfeiting all confidentiality.” https://t.co/r8l1xKOKg0

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) July 28, 2018

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