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The president’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, John Dowd, resigned on Thursday, according to two people briefed on the matter, days after the president called for an end to the inquiry.
Mr. Dowd, who took over the president’s legal team last summer, had considered leaving several times in recent months and ultimately concluded that Mr. Trump was increasingly ignoring his advice, one of the people said. Under Mr. Dowd’s leadership, Mr. Trump’s lawyers had advised him to cooperate with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating Russia’s election interference and possible ties to Trump associates as well as whether the president obstructed the inquiry.
The president has instead in recent days begun publicly assailing Mr. Mueller, a shift in tone that appears to be born of the president’s concern that the investigation is bearing down on him more directly. He has also privately insisted he should sit for an interview with the special counsel’s office, even though Mr. Dowd believed it was a bad idea.
Mr. Dowd’s departure marks the most prominent shake-up for the president’s legal team since he took over from the president’s longtime personal lawyer, Marc E. Kasowitz.
Hey remember this blast from the not too distant past?
So Dowd is out, and conspiracy theory embracing Joseph E. diGenova is in.The Failing New York Times purposely wrote a false story stating that I am unhappy with my legal team on the Russia case and am going to add another lawyer to help out. Wrong. I am VERY happy with my lawyers, John Dowd, Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow. They are doing a great job and.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2018
Oh, that does not bode well for the Trump legal defense.
You know I was a little young when the Nixon presidency started to come apart at the seams, so I really did not get to fully enjoy the spectacle.
But I am DEFINITELY enjoying watching it happen this time.
Looks like Dowd finally gave up Trump for Lent.
ReplyDeleteGood move, Jesus is about to die and rise from the dead again.
The stock market will 'TANK ' on March 30th
Delete'Good God Friday' ~Je$u$ will rise again on April 1st.
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ReplyDeletehttps://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/john-bolton-recorded-video-right-to-bear-arms-russia
"TPM has previously reported on the links between the NRA and Right to Bear Arms, which was founded by Russian banker and “lifetime” NRA member Aleksandr Torshin. The FBI is reportedly investigating whether Torshin illegally channeled Russian funds to the NRA on behalf of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. The NRA has denied any wrongdoing.
Torshin is a close friend of former NRA president David Keene. Keene asked Bolton to record the short clip, and had appointed Bolton to the NRA’s international affairs subcommittee in 2011, according to NPR’s report.
In the same year the video was made, Torshin attended the NRA convention in Houston with conservative heavyweights including Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, and Bolton himself."
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.publicintegrity.org/2018/03/20/21623/john-bolton-eyed-trump-post-leads-super-pac-employed-cambridge-analytica
One more guy that finally sees the large iceberg that's about to drown the Titanic. But it's really too late. But ah well, history will remember.
ReplyDeleteEven Fox News is slamming Trump after John Dowd quit 11 days after president called reports of a shakeup ‘false’
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/john-dowd-quits-11-days-trump-called-reports-shakeup-false-even-fox-news-dunking/
GOP strategist Rick Wilson warns that John Dowd’s ouster is ‘one step closer to Trump firing Mueller’
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/gop-strategist-rick-wilson-warns-john-dowds-ouster-one-step-closer-trump-firing-mueller/
So trump dumped Dowd because he wants to sit for an interview with Mueller. Go for it, Donny, the nation waits with bated breath for you to perjure yourself.
ReplyDeleteWaPo reports that trump and Dowd argued fiercely and at length for the last few weeks, but didn't say about what. NYT says they disagreed about being interviewed, but nothing about the intensity. Dowd is right to walk away. "When the client's a twit, you must quit."
Schadenfreude leaves a bad aftertaste. I was old enough when Watergate happened. It's bad for everyone.
ReplyDeleteReally? I remember Watergate. The only bad aftertaste was the outrage when Nixon was pardoned and got away with all his shit. This time around, we want prison time.
DeleteThe thing I remember most about Nixon and the Watergate mess was the number of idiots who kept saying "See? The system works!"
ReplyDeleteIdiots. We never even got to the point of TRYING the system. He quit before he the House could impeach him! How does that say the system works?
And he got pardoned so he never paid for anything.
DeleteTrump is going down along with his buddy putin. All dictators currently active in this world are sitting ducks and await their fate.
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ReplyDeletehttps://wonkette.com/631554/did-saudi-prince-torture-a-guy-on-jared-kushners-info-this-is-not-good
"Come The Intercept with a scoop, and it is that MBS has reportedly been bragging that he has Jared Kushner “in his back pocket,” and also that he might have gotten the names of the royals who were disloyal to him by having his Bedtime Buddy Jared Kushner whisper them in his ear, based off what Jared read on Poppy’s Presidential Daily Brief, back when Jared was allowed to look at stuff like that."
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Died looks like he ate Mueller.
ReplyDeleteGood god, try some vegetables and legumes, fat bastard.
Dodd not died.
ReplyDeleteHIRE ~FIRE "On her LinkedIn page, Rzendzian describes herself as a senior adviser at SCL Group. Her resume, obtained by the government watchdog American Oversight through a Freedom of Information Act request, says she worked at Cambridge Analytica starting in March 2016."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-cambridge-analytica-kelly-rzendzian_us_5ab3d598e4b054d118e0aa25
This is going to get verry interesting. Now that this some what sane attorney has quit and the nut job Di Genova is on board.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see him try and defend little donnie using conspiracy theories.
"Trump National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster To Resign, Be Replaced By John Bolton"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/593283104/trump-national-security-adviser-h-r-mcmaster-to-resign-be-replaced-by-john-bolto
Fuck. The LAST thing we need is Bolton. At least he's not chief of staff. Who is Trump going to replace Kelly with that will the absolute worst choice?
DeleteDonald J. Trump will replace the chief of staff with himself, Donald J. Trump.
DeleteReally, that is what Donald wants to do. 'He don't need no stinking chief of staff!' That is according to Donald himself, he never had one in business and Donald (himself) does not need one now.
The Idiocracy unfolds now at breakneck speed. Devolution happens.
Perhaps Donald will hire ol' Sarah P, or Bristol, or Willow, or Piper, or Todd, or even Track as sorta chief of staff? Maybe?
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