Trump Wont Hire 2 Lawyers Whose Appointments Were Announced Days Ago

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: New York Times

President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase.

“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement on Sunday morning. “However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. The president looks forward to working with them.”

The upheaval on the legal team comes at a critical time for Mr. Trump. The president’s former lead lawyer, John Dowd, quit the team on Thursday, just as Mr. Trump is deciding whether to sit with Mr. Mueller for an interview.

While Mr. Trump’s lawyers, including Mr. Dowd, had told the president that the investigation would be over by this point, it seems to be accelerating, as Mr. Mueller appears to be looking into a wide range of matters related to Mr. Trump’s corporate activities, his 2016 campaign, his associates and his time in office.

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[DinahMoeHum]

1. Tee hee! Even THEY know a LOSER when they see one.

[dalton99a]

2. But many lawyers and top law firms want to work for the very stable genius

[underpants]

3. Language ⚠️

[Maeve]

4. OK, so she is representing Mark Corallo, who left over concerns about obstruction of justice

and that puts him on the side AGAINST Hope Hicks and tRump. Yeah, conflict of interest!

Shouldn't announce before you know what you're doing, asshat

[C_U_L8R]

5. Maybe they aren't even real lawyers

[Ligyron]

6. They were little more than a PR team anyway.

I'm sure we'll have to hear their CT theories anyway. Fox, the propaganda channel where it's all Trump all the time.

[FakeNoose]

7. This was interesting from the OP

According to two people told of details about the meeting, the president did not believe he had personal chemistry with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing.

In other words, DiGenova immediately went on the political talk shows last week and started talking about the case, even before he was hired. Apparently that really frosted Cheeto, who doesn't want anybody taking the spotlight away from him. Also DiGenova seems to think the best strategy is throwing Hope Hicks under a bus, which doesn't sit well with His Orange Majesty.

Aaah well, moving on....

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Wonder if any accountants from over the years are having second thoughts

it's been said one can find an accountant to make the numbers do whatever you want

but there are legal and accounting standards

waffling and obfuscating doesn't work in the final outcome

[Botany]

9. Damn!

“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing
from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,”


Please Donny hire Joe d ..... just because he hasn't practiced law for 20+ years and
is a "Fox News TV Lawyer" is no reason not to have him go up against Mueller & Co.

[Honeycombe8]

10. So he IS hiring those 2 lawyers, just not for the Mueller thing (wink wink).

There are conflicts of interest, so the lawyers (not Trump...the lawyers) can't work on the Mueller investigation matter. But Trump IS hiring them for "other reasons" - (wink wink).

[MaryMagdaline]

11. Mark Corallo needs to fire them. Stat

[klook]

12. "Where's Perry Mason? Is he still around?"

When even clowns like diGenova and Toensing turn him down, you know Trump is having a bad week.

"What about Ham Burger? Get me Burger!!"

[world wide wally]

13. Were the results of their psychiatric evaluations released?

[BlueIdaho]

14. It was a useful distraction

To help him get past the first sex scandal TV interview. What will he say to distract from the “Stormy” interview tonight?

[flibbitygiblets]

15. Prolly fire someone. And/Or tweetfight some D List celeb

The ONLY kind of fight he's "brave" enough to have.

[dhol82]

20. Yeah, word is that he is dumping the head of the VA

[Jarqui]

16. Too bad

Bad lawyers flailing trying to protect bad people seemed poetic

[ascap_scab]

17. If Trump needs a TV Lawyer...

I suggest Matlock!

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[Cold War Spook]

18. There was a conflict.

They wanted to be paid up front and he didn't want to pay them at all.

[JI7]

19. " Won't Pay"