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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMueller just scored a massive win in the Russia investigation
President Donald Trump's lead defense attorney, John Dowd, resigned from Trump's legal team on Thursday. And it may be the most significant victory, as it relates to Trump, for the special counsel Robert Mueller in recent months.
Dowd was the lawyer in charge of handling communications between Trump and Mueller. He was also the member of Trump's team who was the most vocally opposed to a face-to-face interview between the president and the special counsel.
Dowd and Trump's other defense attorney, Jay Sekulow, had been working for months to sidestep or significantly narrow the scope of an interview with Mueller, out of fear that their client, who has a history of making misleading and exaggerated claims, could land himself in legal jeopardy.
Dowd was the lawyer in charge of handling communications between Trump and Mueller. He was also the member of Trump's team who was the most vocally opposed to a face-to-face interview between the president and the special counsel.
Dowd and Trump's other defense attorney, Jay Sekulow, had been working for months to sidestep or significantly narrow the scope of an interview with Mueller, out of fear that their client, who has a history of making misleading and exaggerated claims, could land himself in legal jeopardy.
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-dowd-departure-means-mueller-will-likely-get-trump-interview-2018-3
I am hoping this is true and it's not about firing Mueller. It seems promising.
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Mueller just scored a massive win in the Russia investigation (Original Post)
mucifer
Mar 2018
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JI7
(89,173 posts)1. no, Trump is scared of Mueller .
Girard442
(6,059 posts)2. As per Rachel Maddow and others, this may signal Trump's going extra-legal.
Don't need sophisticated lawyers for a coup.
You have crystallized a thought that I had been unwilling to think. Dirty Donny* has "his generals" in place, his propaganda machine in full spew, and the most meek, cowardly, and submissive republican Congress of all time. Gulp.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)4. Can we stop with the "misleading and exaggerated" talk?
And just say "LIES" ??