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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVanity Fair: Mueller viewing Trump as "a target, not a witness"?
A TARGET, NOT A WITNESS: WILL TRUMPS LEGAL B-TEAM COLLAPSE BEFORE MUELLER?The presidents struggle to recruit experienced lawyers could mask more ominous concerns. As far as I can tell, Ty Cobb is the only attorney left on the Trump team with experience handling federal criminal investigations, says one former prosecutor. The team is thinner than you might expect for perhaps the most important investigation of our lifetime.
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......What happened between last week, when DiGenova and Toensing were announced as joining the team, and yesterday? mused Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general under President Obama. The conflict of interest issue was apparent on Tuesday, and yet we were told they were joining the team and that Mark Corallo (the person with the most significant conflict) had waived any concern. Then Dowd resigns Thursday, and yet by Sunday DiGenova and Toensing are gone, leaving the president with only two lawyers. That strange development, Katyal posited to me, suggests that Robert Mueller may have intervened. Diligent prosecutors, when they see a defendant doing something profoundly dangerous to their self-interest (including hiring lawyers who have conflicts), will raise it with the defendant and suggest they rethink it, he explained. I think it very possible that that happened hereMueller is a scrupulous prosecutor and may have told Trump he had concerns about Trumps own rights. If it did happen, it would strongly suggest that Mueller is formally thinking of Trump as a target of his investigation . . . A prosecutor would issue such a warning to a target, not to a witness."
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/donald-trump-legal-team-john-dowd-robert-mueller
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)the only question is if it's just multiple counts of obstruction or if it's also collusion/conspiracy and more.
Still, glad to see it make a mainstream publication.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)collusion AND obstruction and money laundering is the motive. The investigation now has to go into all the laws broken by so many people for years and years (Bannon, the Mercers, CA/Facebook, UAE, Saudis, 2014 RNC midterms, etc.....)
onit2day
(1,201 posts)babylonsister
(171,056 posts)triron
(21,994 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Go Mueller!
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)He is at the top of all this corruption.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts)... all the odor emanates from King Orange of Spank Me - the target is on his back.
oasis
(49,370 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)EarnestPutz
(2,119 posts)Wow. If this is true it must give the right wing, nut jobs heart burn.
The Greek chorus of attacks on Mueller's integrity lose some of their
punch when and if he is acting with such scruples.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)"fake news," along with every other journal with a reputation for integrity in this country or any other.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The conflict of interest, which they had to have been entirely aware of, gives the very worst impression of DiGenova and Toensing. Did they do it imagining they'd be on TV every day while it lasted?
Qutzupalotl
(14,300 posts)has a fool for a client.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)that Trump actually listened to Mueller's warning him away from the TV lawyer with conflicts. I can see that Mueller would be concerned about Trump's rights to decent counsel; that's who Mueller is. But who browbeat Trump into listening to him?