For months, Driscoll failed to disclose his ties to Butina to faux news' viewers
All the times alleged Russian spy’s lawyer went on Fox News and didn’t say who he was
Robert Driscoll loved appearing on Fox News to talk about Russia, but not about who he was working for.
https://thinkprogress.org/maria-butinas-lawyer-robert-driscoll-didnt-disclose-who-he-was-representing-fox-news-db7b6f639287/
To Fox News viewers, Robert Driscoll had all the credentials of someone who could comment on the ongoing investigations surrounding Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Often in a bow tie and glasses, the former chief of staff in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division had a certain air of gravitas — especially when he appeared on Fox News multiple times to slam any insinuation that Trump’s campaign may have had help from Moscow.
But as NPR pointed out on Monday, there was another facet of Driscoll’s work that Fox News viewers never knew about: his work as the lawyer for Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent who infiltrated the National Rifle Association (NRA). Another person Driscoll has helped in the past? Sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who was involved heavily with convicted felon and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort — and who Driscoll helped lobby on behalf of during the Obama administration.
For months, Driscoll failed to disclose his ties to Butina to Fox News’ viewers — and he’s still never disclosed his former work on behalf of Deripaska.
Driscoll told NPR that he began working as Butina’s lawyer in February, but that he didn’t bother to disclose that information until July, around the time of Butina’s arrest. (In a recent filing, Driscoll bizarrely claimed that Butina’s decision to set up an LLC in South Dakota — one that appeared to do no real business — was actually meant to show that Butina “intended to deepen her roots” in South Dakota.) Driscoll told NPR that he didn’t disclose his relationship with Butina because “there’s no conflict because she is being prosecuted by the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, not [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller.”
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