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In case anyone else missed it too:
Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and MATT APUZZOAUG. 16, 2017
WASHINGTON President Trumps personal lawyer on Wednesday forwarded an email to conservative journalists, government officials and friends that echoed secessionist Civil War propaganda and declared that the group Black Lives Matter has been totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.
The email forwarded by John Dowd, who is leading the presidents legal team, painted the Confederate general Robert E. Lee in glowing terms and equated the Souths rebellion to that of the American Revolution against England. Its subject line The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville was a reference to comments Mr. Trump made earlier this week in the aftermath of protests in the Virginia college town.
You cannot be against General Lee and be for General Washington, the email reads, there literally is no difference between the two men. Read More
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,586 posts)who's almost as much of a douche as he is. The others - Kasowitz, McGahn, and Sekulow - are weapons-grade assholes, too. And then there was Roy Cohn, formerly Joe McCarthy's chief counsel for HUAC. In fact, it seems that asshole lawyers are all he can get. Hardly anybody wants to work for him any more.
Washington lawyers have defended spies, embezzlers, strongmen, torturers. But the prospect of defending Trump has apparently given them pause. Brendan Sullivan of Williams & Connolly, who represented Oliver North, and Ted Olson of Gibson, Dunn, who represented the Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, are among the veterans of Washington scandals who have reportedly rejected overtures to join Trumps legal defense team.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/magazine/all-the-presidents-lawyers.html?mcubz=1
pat_k
(9,313 posts)From PBS The Choice 2016
Hes a kid who wants to figure out how to make deals, to figure out how to establish a presence for himself in Manhattan. And hes right to believe that thats not easy to do.
NARRATOR:
He needed a mentor. He found one in Roy Cohn, the notorious New York lawyer....
NARRATOR:
Cohn had become famous during the McCarthy hearings, a witch hunt that accused Americans of communist sympathies.
MARIE BRENNER, Vanity Fair:
He delighted in the fact that he had ruined so many lives in the McCarthy era...
Roy Cohn humiliated people. He made up things. He had no morals. You couldnt even say that he had the morals of a snake. He had no morals. He had no moral center....
NIKKI HASKELL:
Roy was like a street guy. You know, he was like, Punch you punch me, Ill punch you. And I think he made Donald very confrontational. And I think you had that sort of tough guy, dont take any kind of, you know, [expletive deleted] from anybody, kind of an attitude. And I think a lot of that, you know, he instilled in Donald.
BARBARA RES, VP, Trump Organization, 1980-92:
And in his drawer, he had a picture of Roy. And it was a grainy black and white picture, and Roy looked like the devil. And he would pull it out and he would say, This is my lawyer. If we cant make an agreement, this is whos going to who youre going to be dealing with.
NARRATOR:
In 1973, Trump hired Cohn to defend him and his father. They had been sued by the federal government for discriminating against black renters looking for apartments in their buildings.
MICHAEL KRANISH, Co-Author, Trump Revealed:
The lawsuit revealed that Trump agents allegedly were writing down C for colored or Number 9 to indicate a black prospective tenant, and those people were often turned away.
A psychopathic nightmare.
LeftInTX
(25,123 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,400 posts)The one RWNJ Facebook "friend" that I spar with loves the BLM equals terrorists. The meme seems to be based on one video a featuring high debate where a young man said some really stupid things.
He also spouted something that he must have seen on Fox, Breitbart, or InfoWars. He claimed that since Nazis are National Socialists, they were just Bernie Sanders.
Deep thinkers all huh?
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)of other BS coming from Twitter Tower last week.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Last edited Sun Aug 20, 2017, 11:58 PM - Edit history (3)
...that are likely to take many, many years to repair.
Amid the distraction of the chaotic horror show he is definitely "getting things done."
Some of the things tracked on presterity.org:
I fear that the actions that are big enough, or implemented at a level high enough, to make the news are just the tip of the iceberg compared to damage being done by the systematic decimation of executive regulatory functions going on at every level. And this doesn't even touch on his abusive use of executive power over foreign policy, which is making the world a more dangerous .place, not to mention his withdrawal from efforts to use of our influence and dollars to advance human rights.
Human beings are naturally pulled in when confronted with something that is beyond understanding. As we witness DT's evermore explosive and bizarre verbal diarrhea, our attention is diverted. At the same time, we are being overwhelmed by the shear volume and breadth of the damaging actions he's pulling off. Generalized opposition is strong, but a whole lot is getting by without fanfare or organized opposition.