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By Michael S. Schmidt & Maggie Haberman @ NYTimes.com, March 19
I'll let this Tweet do the excerpt, it's a doozy:
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WaPo headline stories tonight:
Trump shakes up legal team with hiring of lawyer who sees FBI conspiracy
Joe diGenova, a TV pundit and combative former prosecutor, is joining an already fractious group. The hiring prompted fears President Trump is preparing for bigger changes as he faces the Russia inquiry and Stormy Daniels case.
Trump’s lawyers turned over documents to Mueller to try to limit interview scope
The Fix: Trump hired a deep-state conspiracy theorist as his lawyer. Here’s what Joe diGenova has said.
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 12:10am
Aside: Di Genova as Deep State pusher is ironic, as I remember him and his wife as strong supporters of the Vast Right Wing Paula Jones Conspiracy on ye olde political TV shows (like Geraldo) back in the pre-internet Monicagate days.
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 12:13am
And notes that Trump sent Dowd out to attack Mueller and lobby to shut down the investigation - and at first Dowd said he was speaking for the Prez, and then for himself. Making Mueller's obstruction work easier, it appears.
DiGenova was front and center in pushing Comey to re-start the email investigation days before the election to quell a supposed FBI revolt (one that DiGenova helped mock up). How this is going to distract from Russian collusion and election malfeasance
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 1:36am
The President and His Lawyers, Part II: The Attorney General and the Saturday Night Pre-Massacre
By Bob Bauer @ LawfareBlog.com, March 19, 2018, 7:30 AM
Bob Bauer served as White House Counsel to President Obama, and returned to private practice as a partner at Perkins Coie in June 2011. In 2013, the President named Bob to be Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, as well as the Co-Director of the university's Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic.
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 3:53am
Another member of the old Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has just declined:
High-profile conservative lawyer Theodore B. Olson declines offer to join Trump legal team
The president’s legal team had reached out to Olson to join forces amid mounting challenges in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the talks.
(I haven't read "The Fix" link, but I remember him as being one of the more decent sort of the whole Ken Starr coalition. His wife, Barbara, was also commonly on the Paula Jones side on the tube, and she also seemed to be the more decent sort. She died on Flight 77 of 9/11 attacks.)
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 6:23pm
God, if they're part of the "decent" side of the Fix/Spectator/David Brick origins of wingnuttery... including attacks on Anita Hill and 2 hysterical anti-Hillary books... plus that unlikely 9/11 call frim a hijacked plane (0 secs as listed or 5 minutes of convenient factoids to her hubby?)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Olson
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/20/2018 - 10:16pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/26/2018 - 7:48pm
Washington Post has an article on Olson that includes his frustration with the Administration regarding anti-terrorism:
This Administration has managed to piss off some pretty hard core conservatives.
by moat on Mon, 03/26/2018 - 8:50pm
Re: This Administration has managed to piss off some pretty hard core conservatives
The National Review is where they gather to lick wounds. A reminder that this is worldwide, though, I was just looking at this again:
....And from Italy to the Philippines to Canada, this cannibalizing populism is swallowing traditional Conservatism whole....
from Will Canada Elect a Tin-Pot Northern Trump? @ NYTImes.com, March 22.
Edit to add: Except the Bolton appt. could redeem with the National Review crowd, same with pandering Kudlow if he pandering whispers are the right ones, I haven't really checked lately.
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 12:52am