Trump Wont Hire 2 Lawyers Whose Appointments Were Announced Days Ago
Source: New York Times
President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase.
The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the presidents special counsel legal team, Mr. Trumps personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement on Sunday morning. However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. The president looks forward to working with them.
The upheaval on the legal team comes at a critical time for Mr. Trump. The presidents former lead lawyer, John Dowd, quit the team on Thursday, just as Mr. Trump is deciding whether to sit with Mr. Mueller for an interview.
While Mr. Trumps lawyers, including Mr. Dowd, had told the president that the investigation would be over by this point, it seems to be accelerating, as Mr. Mueller appears to be looking into a wide range of matters related to Mr. Trumps corporate activities, his 2016 campaign, his associates and his time in office.
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DinahMoeHum
(21,812 posts)dalton99a
(81,599 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)Maeve
(42,288 posts)and that puts him on the side AGAINST Hope Hicks and tRump. Yeah, conflict of interest!
Shouldn't announce before you know what you're doing, asshat
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Ligyron
(7,639 posts)I'm sure we'll have to hear their CT theories anyway. Fox, the propaganda channel where it's all Trump all the time.
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)According to two people told of details about the meeting, the president did not believe he had personal chemistry with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing.
In other words, DiGenova immediately went on the political talk shows last week and started talking about the case, even before he was hired. Apparently that really frosted Cheeto, who doesn't want anybody taking the spotlight away from him. Also DiGenova seems to think the best strategy is throwing Hope Hicks under a bus, which doesn't sit well with His Orange Majesty.
Aaah well, moving on....
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)it's been said one can find an accountant to make the numbers do whatever you want
but there are legal and accounting standards
waffling and obfuscating doesn't work in the final outcome
Botany
(70,589 posts)The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing
from joining the presidents special counsel legal team,
Please Donny hire Joe d ..... just because he hasn't practiced law for 20+ years and
is a "Fox News TV Lawyer" is no reason not to have him go up against Mueller & Co.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)There are conflicts of interest, so the lawyers (not Trump...the lawyers) can't work on the Mueller investigation matter. But Trump IS hiring them for "other reasons" - (wink wink).
MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)klook
(12,170 posts)When even clowns like diGenova and Toensing turn him down, you know Trump is having a bad week.
"What about Ham Burger? Get me Burger!!"
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)To help him get past the first sex scandal TV interview. What will he say to distract from the Stormy interview tonight?
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)The ONLY kind of fight he's "brave" enough to have.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Bad lawyers flailing trying to protect bad people seemed poetic
ascap_scab
(23 posts)I suggest Matlock!
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Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)They wanted to be paid up front and he didn't want to pay them at all.