A beefed-up White House legal team prepares aggressive defense of Trump's executive privilege claims
The article was linked yesterday, but the link was in the middle of a thread. I think a lot of people didn't see the post, and that the article is worth its own thread.
Yesterday, at DU: A beefed-up White House legal team prepares aggressive defense of Trump's executive privilege
New White House counsel Pat Cipollone beefs up for the legal war to come, enlisting 17 lawyers as Trump team insists on reviewing any Mueller report before release to evaluate possible executive privilege claims. @CarolLeonnig
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By Carol D. Leonnig
January 9 at 6:44 PM
A beefed-up White House legal team is gearing up to prevent President Trumps confidential discussions with top advisers from being disclosed to House Democratic investigators and revealed in the special counsels long-awaited report, setting the stage for a potential clash between the branches of government.
The strategy to strongly assert the presidents executive privilege on both fronts is being developed under newly arrived White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who has hired 17 lawyers in recent weeks to help in the effort.
He is coordinating with White House lawyer Emmet Flood, who is leading the response to special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs report on his now-20-month-long investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. Flood is based in White House Counsels Office but reports directly to Trump.
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Carol Leonnig is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post, where she has worked since 2000. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her work on security failures and misconduct inside the Secret Service. Follow https://twitter.com/CarolLeonnig
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)i mean it...very funny.
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(81,708 posts)agingdem
(7,875 posts)talk about overkill...please don't let the number scare you...this isn't he same thing but when my daughter was going thru her divorce and child custody nightmare, in a three year period her ex hired 13 lawyers...she had 2..in those three years and with his thirteen lawyers and countless court hearings and motions and subpoenas and depositions and assorted crap, the ex never won a damn thing ..with all his wealth and resources he still lost his parental rights because he was a violent abusive raging lying sociopath and every lawyer her hired knew it and couldn't get beyond the obvious