****BREAKING NOW****John Dowd Resigns as Trumps Lead Lawyer in Special Counsel Inquiry

[DemocratSinceBirth]

WASHINGTON — 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. Mr. Trump has insisted he should sit for an interview with the special counsel’s office, even though Mr. Dowd believed it was a bad idea

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/us/politics/john-dowd-resigns-trump-lawyer.html

[mreilly]

1. LOL, you don't resign if...

... this is all a big "witch hunt" against your client, your client is totally 100% absolutely not guilty, and you're looking forward to the slam-dunk of a guaranteed victory since your side is the one telling the truth!

[BoneyardDem]

12. *This* is the secondary message that needs to get out

Attorneys are generally good at self preservation. They know when they are about to take on a liability that not only ultimately hurts their own professional reputation, but may also sweep them up into the convoluted web of lies and corruption scandals and Special Counsel Investigations.

I'm only surprised it took him this long.

[mythology]

14. To be fair, he could also resign because his client lies constantly

Even if he's 100% innocent (or at least deemed too stupid by the string pullers to have been included in the planning) he can't help but lie even about things like the size of his inaugural crowd. Literally no reason to lie about it, but he can't help himself.

[Yavin4]

15. Or doesn't pay him.

I imagine that Trump's legal bills are massive. Hard to represent someone for a long period of time without getting paid.

[uponit7771]

44. +1, remember more than one firm saying he doesn't pay

[lunasun]

2. Bad idea

[jberryhill]

3. Heh

Good luck, Donnie.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. The scuttlebutt is Trump wants a more muscular posture against the Special Council (sic)

How interesting do you think this gets ?

[Fred Sanders]

27. Since Trump is Foxing up, I will not be surprised if Fox TV host and

ex-judge Napolitano is hired. That would almost complete the casting call for Trump's White House "Survival" show! Too bad so many are leaving the island before the show even gets started.

[RKP5637]

49. Each day, Donnie digs a deeper hole and climbs down into it. n/t

[spanone]

4. trump knows more than his lawyers....proceed 'president'

[flibbitygiblets]

5. OMG that same song just popped into my mind!

[Kirk Lover]

6. Oh did today's episode of "Reality TV Prezident" start already? Can't wait until the

SERIES finale....!!!

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. What about......

[Texin]

47. Oh, Elwood! That poster wins the internet today!

[Sophia4]

48. Wonderful poster!

[LudwigPastorius]

51. Sessions as Granny!

lololololol!

[poboy2]

7. Now we'll get a healthy dose of the deep state conspiratard Joe Digenniva -nt

[yallerdawg]

8. "Pardon" me...

but I am becoming more and more "resigned" to a Mike Pence lame-duck care-taker presidency.

[gratuitous]

10. This is good news for President Trump!

Always a good sign when your lawyer withdraws in the midst of the proceedings. Dowd concluded, all by his little self that Trump ignores the advice of his attorneys? He could have checked with practically any of the roster of Trump's former attorneys and gotten that startling information.

Everyone's saying that Trump is his own worst enemy. I think that's kind of insulting to me.

[Squinch]

56. Bwahahahaha! I'm stealing that!!!!

[CelticWinter]

11. sucks to be don the con

damn I wish I were a fly on the wall.
Celtic

[spanone]

13. "I love the President and wish him well," Dowd said in a statement to CNN.

sure you do you lying fuck....

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/john-dowd-white-house/index.html

[NastyRiffraff]

37. What's he gonna say?

"I hate the lying fucker and he's as guilty as hell"?

[spanone]

39. i suspect he'll be saying that when he doesn't get paid.

[marylandblue]

40. Only in private, he's still bound by the code of ethics

you can't ever say anything bad about your client. However, you can provide non-privileged factual information about crimes you may have witnessed to special counsels.

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. Wish he would say exactly that.

[nolabels]

16. Yesterday was kind of quiet news day, figures

The swamp monster's sphere of influence and the monster himself continue to be ever more erratic, color me surprised

[Downtown Hound]

18. Hahahahahaha!

At this point you just have to laugh.

[Generic Brad]

19. This does not bode well

This signals to me that Trump is set to go all in on offense. He's planning to end the investigation by hook or by crook. Most likely by crook which had to have factored into Dowd's decision to abandon ship.

[Achilleaze]

22. You got it. KGOP ugly is about to get Mega-Fugly

Full-on KGOP fascist BS truthtwist mindf*ck onslaught against America and democracy and reality commencing...now...

[Fred Sanders]

31. Trump has no choice but to resign soon or fire Mueller. Anyone who thought

Trump really did not want to be President could not have been more wrong...he lives only for money and power...and golf.

I think also once you board AF1 as President you do NOT want to give that up.

[meadowlander]

30. Although Cobb has seemed like the more restrained one.

Dowd is the one that jumped the gun on calling for the end of the investigation as soon as McCabe was fired.

My guess is that Dowd's ego is bruised by DiGenova being brought on after Trump said he wanted better lawyers, then denied he was changing his legal team, then changed his legal team.

I don't think it's because Dowd was the voice of reason and suddenly cottoned on to the fact that it was falling on deaf ears.

[grantcart]

36. I think he called for the end in order to keep Trump from

Firing Mueller.

[lunasun]

20. Resigned . Don't forget that as trump will say he fired Dowd and good riddance etc

[NewJeffCT]

21. More BREAKING News

Jared Kushner ordered a book on Constitutional Law off of Amazon today.



(For those who don't remember, several months back, Kushner prepared for meeting representatives from China by ordering a book on China off of Amazon)

[duforsure]

23. Cobb next to go

By firing him , or him resigning. He can't keep help, and I wonder if they got paid up front first, or he's going to stiff them. Those guys hate his guts, and anyone he gets will too soon enough.

[Initech]

24. Another tribute has been eliminated from the Trumper Games!

[C Moon]

25. I'd think what didn't help, was that Trump was shopping around for another lawyer.

[cungar2000]

26. Expect to go from virtual non-cooperation

to total non-cooperation

[exboyfil]

29. Ted Olson is thinking

Glad I didn't join that circus.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. ...

Link to tweet

TEXT
Kyle Griffin
✔
@kylegriffin1

This never gets old. (via @maddow)
10:35 PM - Mar 6, 2018

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. When you know your client will almost certainly lie under oath,

he won't take your advice, and he's not paying his bills, it's time to hit the road and go back to your much more prestigious and lucrative practice of defending drunk drivers and sex offenders and representing slumlords at eviction hearings.

[OliverQ]

34. Rosenstein/Mueller firing is coming soon.

Count on it. Trump is getting rid of all the people telling him not to. His new lawyer is a conspiracy theorist who called for Mueller's removal.

We're in big trouble.

[SonofDonald]

45. That's what I see coming, but....

I'd think Mr Mueller is well prepared for that eventuality.

Dumpf will try to fire them at the last moment Friday night and spend the weekend spewing bullshit non-coherent reasons he had to do so.

Starting 30 seconds before Mueller brings the hammer down on his ass.

Tomorrows going to be very interesting.

[Gothmog]

35. Rats and a sinking ship

[Vinca]

38. Think Trump reminded him to send a bill?

[Still In Wisconsin]

41. He probably figured out that TRUMP would only pay 25% of his bill, if that.

Also, the obvious fact that Two Scoops is almost certainly painful to work with.

[Buns_of_Fire]

43. I think Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer is available.

Did Trump U. offer a law degree?

[magicarpet]

52. Neander, Neander, & Thall P.A. LLC

Practicing Attorneys
With offices in,
* New York
* Moscow
* Panama

Specializing in criminal and treason and money laundering and corruption and incest laws. And any other naughty stuff you got yourself involved in.

[poboy2]

54. Oh wow, I LOVED that skit. 'I'm just a simple caveman, your modern ways

frighten and confuse me.


good stuff.

[ollie10]

46. Wouldn't it save Trump a lot of money if TRUMP resigns?

Pardon himself on the way out and move to be with his lover, Vladimir?

[LudwigPastorius]

50. They're running like rats from a burning zeppelin.

Delicious.

Only question now is, what day do you have in the Constitutional Crisis Office Pool?

I'm thinking Trump fires Mueller on Good Friday...because it's, you know, good.

[lpbk2713]

53. Trump's Titanic administration is going down down down.

Has he been fitted for an orange flight suit yet?

[sunonmars]

55. This tells you everything you need to know...Trump won't listen and the lawyer thinks its over.

[raven mad]

57. Followed on the heels by

National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/hr-mcmaster-out-as-national-security-advisor-as-trumps-purge-continues