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riversedge

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Wed Feb 14, 2018, 11:02 AM Feb 2018

Trump lawyers, Jay Sekulow radio show slams Russia probe

I did not know he had a radio show, but looks to be the typical RW hate radio format




Trump lawyer’s radio show slams Russia probe


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/14/trump-russia-lawyer-sekulow-407909

Shunning the dry legalese of his colleagues, attorney Jay Sekulow has turned his weekday radio show into an almost nonstop assault on the federal probes into Trump's Russia connections.

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN

02/14/2018 05:00 AM EST


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Fourteen of the past 19 episodes of “Jay Sekulow Live” have involved freewheeling conversations about the Trump-Russia saga and what he calls the “deep state” bureaucrats out to get the president. Sekulow also piles on during his regular appearances on Fox News.

“You cannot make this stuff up!” Sekulow said in December, following a report alleging anti-Trump bias at the Justice Department. “I think the significance of this cannot be understated,” he said last month about a House Republican memo claiming fatal flaws in the FBI’s Russia probe. On the mid-January news that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was resigning, he declared: “I cannot underscore how big this is!”
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That may not be a legal strategy, but it’s a political one — which could be just as important in a Russia scandal that could end up before Congress with an impeachment vote. Sekulow’s increasingly combative tone could also portend a larger Trump team strategy of digging in for an all-out fight against Mueller and Democrats in Congress.

Sekulow, 61, may be no Rush Limbaugh, but the “Jay Sekulow Live!” radio show is carried by some 1,000 stations around the country, as well as Sirius XM, and can be heard in major markets like New York and Los Angeles. Sekulow said he counts more than 1.5 million listeners. Many of them, according to Michael Harrison, editor and publisher of the trade publication Talkers magazine, are Christians who form a core part of Trump’s political base. .......
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