Posted on 03/22/2018 8:39:38 AM PDT by bitt
John Dowd, a personal attorney to President Trump, resigned his post Thursday amid a shake-up in the president’s legal team as Trump has sought more firepower to deal with the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
The resignation came Thursday, according to three people familiar with the decision. Dowd declined to comment.
Dowd’s departure was a largely mutual decision made after the president lost confidence in his ability to handle special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation and Dowd became frustrated with Trump’s recent efforts to bring on new attorneys, they said.
In recent weeks, Dowd clashed with the president, including an incident in which he disagreed vehemently with Trump over a legal strategy, according to the people.
Jay Sekulow, a Trump lawyer and spokesman for the legal team, told The Washington Post, “John has been a valuable part of the team and a friend and we will continue to cooperate fully with the special counsel.”
Trump added former U.S. attorney Joe diGenova to his legal team last week. And on Monday, The Post reported that Trump had urged his aides to reach out to legal superstar and former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson to join as his lawyer as he faces a likely interview with the Special Counsel’s investigative team and scrutiny for possible obstruction of justice.
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“To everybody even moderately on the left, they absolutely believe there was collusion, and more.”
Well since there is no crime of “collusion”, the question still remains, what did he obstruct?
Confident in your position does not equal innocense. Bernie mad off was confident in his position.
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I’m still trying to figure out, how you can obstruct justice when there’s been no crime committed.
To everybody even moderately on the left, they absolutely believe there was collusion, and more.
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IF ‘collusion’ were a crime, and the (R)N(C) had the testosterone to follow-through, they would have gone after Zero for his ‘hot-mic’ comments re: flexibility w/ Russia, no?
And in Madoffs case there was an actual crime to investigate.
Trump probably told his lawyer one thing and then did another. That seems to be his pattern.
The only obstruction Trump might be guilty of would be the occasional tight turd due to the presidential whim for Gouda Cheese, A groaner.
And soon Mueller, running out of options, will be forced to stick his nose up the presidential posterior crease. I do not think Mueller can take it.There is nothing much worse than the robust olfactory stimulation of aromatic Gouda cheese flatulence. It will prompt Mueller to end his sordid infamy.
As Trey Gowdy said..”If you have an innocent client, act like it” and here comes Joe DiGenova. Get the popcorn out folks, this is gonna be good.
It’s true...DeGenova has moved in (a few days ago).
So....Hallelujah!!
Too many cooks make bad legal soup.
Because there MUST have been a crime committed for him to overcome the most awesome god-damned database...
That’s too bad, about Olson not joining Trump’s team.
Would’ve loved to see a DeGenova/Olson one-two punch.
Olson’s wife Barbara was on Flight 77 that flew into the Pentagon. I would have thought that he would like to help take down the nest of snakes that enabled the 9/11/2001 disaster and are now bound and determined to get rid of Trump and install their own puppet regime.
This sounds like a good change. As I understand the prior attorneys’ strategy, it was to rely on Mueller realizing that there was no collusion. That was a stupid strategy because Mueller has no intention of backing off regardless of what he does or does not find. Trump needs lawyers who will go on offense.
Olson’s wife Barbara was on Flight 77 that flew into the Pentagon. I would have thought that he would like to help take down the nest of snakes that enabled the 9/11/2001 disaster and are now bound and determined to get rid of Trump and install their own puppet regime.
My thoughts, as well.
Again, a shame he won’t held Trump drain this infested swamp.
Hope he’s not become part of the swamp.
Scooter Libby
Mueller trying to perjure Trump since he has no crime.
Ted is a Bushie and he has not been on the conservative side of issues in the last years. I think he is a Globalist type.
Whoa!! Related to the Conditt who just blew himself up?
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