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Trump to Hire Lawyer Who Has Pushed Theory That Justice Dept. Framed the President
The New York Times ^ | March 19, 2018 | MAGGIE HABERMAN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Posted on 03/19/2018 10:19:32 AM PDT by monkapotamus

MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Trump has decided to hire the longtime Washington lawyer Joseph E. diGenova, who has pushed the theory on television that Mr. Trump was framed by F.B.I. and Justice Department officials, to bolster his legal team, according to three people told of the decision.

Mr. diGenova is not expected to take a lead role but will instead serve as a more aggressive player on the president’s legal team. Mr. Trump broke over the weekend from the longstanding advice of some of his lawyers that he refrain from directly attacking the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, a sign of his growing unease with the investigation...

There was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate Hillary Clinton and, if she didn’t win the election, to then frame Donald Trump with a falsely created crime,” he said on Fox News in January. He added, “Make no mistake about it: A group of F.B.I. and D.O.J. people were trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: hans56

What’s his name - Pompeo? What do you know about him?


101 posted on 03/19/2018 4:46:31 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Thank You Rush
She hadn’t been given the go ahead to release the one client’s take on the subject and I don’t know if that still holds true....don’t hear much about it. I think I remember that from FOX but since I don’t watch them or any TV news anymore, it could have happened and I missed it. That would go back to last fall, I believe.

I believe Campbell was interviewed recently by the FBI. Although what Campbell knows shouldn't be a mystery to some former (and present?) members of the FBI.

102 posted on 03/19/2018 4:50:22 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: monkapotamus

Trump likes to have people around him who will fight for him. DiGenova will. Had he not appeared on Fox news then Trump may never have found him.


103 posted on 03/19/2018 5:03:49 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: monkapotamus

I don’t know why he doesn’t just call for an Army civilian march on Washington DC. The swamp And deept state Will not relent without overwhelming force. Or nations future is at stake. Simple as that. Will the government be we the people or control of the people. There really is no other choice at this time that I can see


104 posted on 03/19/2018 6:48:55 PM PDT by wgmalabama (The government murdered Robert LaVoy Finicum - what makes you think you are not next?)
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To: monkapotamus
It is not a theory anymore. There is a lot of evidence pointing to the validity of Mr. diGenova's assertion.

Dear NY Times, we have seen strong evidence pointing in this direction, and the corrupt linkages between certain officials, including you in the media.

105 posted on 03/19/2018 6:53:26 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: Iron Munro

He woke up long enough to have dinner with FISA target Rosenstein.

106 posted on 03/19/2018 7:09:12 PM PDT by Eddie01 (I'll learned it on Free Republic same as you)
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To: SunkenCiv

DiGenova’s wife likes the tag #framegate. Although I am not a twitter person, I like that word too.


107 posted on 03/19/2018 8:43:54 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: monkapotamus

Haberman and Schmidt are two journalism whores who reside in the biggest whore house in America, the New York Times.

If the evidence of political and ethical malfeasance by high-ranking members of the FBI and DOJ isn’t serious enough to admit to, then nothing is ever going to make these two people into honest, objective journalists.

If they were, they’d probably lose their jobs at the NY Times.

As Yoda would say, “The hate and lies are strong there”.


108 posted on 03/19/2018 9:50:15 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Jim 0216

The new lawyer is diGenova.

“President Trump hired the longtime Washington lawyer Joseph E. diGenova on Monday, adding an aggressive voice to his legal team who has pushed the theory on television that the F.B.I. and Justice Department framed Mr. Trump.”


109 posted on 03/19/2018 11:38:58 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: monkapotamus

It’s about time... long overdue.


110 posted on 03/19/2018 11:47:58 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Jim 0216

Imprimis just provided his speech The Politicization of the FBI.

It lays everything out about FBI malfeasance.

diGenova will need to be very careful. This is a rogue agency with many ways to kill. Our own KGB.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-politicization-of-the-fbi/

Please read it!!


111 posted on 03/20/2018 4:55:02 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: monkapotamus

It’s no theory.


112 posted on 03/20/2018 6:28:32 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

As Roger Stone said, “Trump’s lawyers are slow walking him towards the gallows”
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I once sued my own lawyer. I discovered that there were few lawyers that would sue other lawyers. This lawyer I found (out of town!) and hired had the lawsuit filed before I left his office the first time. Settled a year later for approximately a half million dollars.

Shaking up (firing) selective members of your legal team is sometimes necessary to get their attention. I think this is what Trump is up to.


113 posted on 03/20/2018 6:49:37 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: newnhdad

Agreed. Great guy and a smart guy.


114 posted on 03/20/2018 6:58:00 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Chickensoup

Thanks. I get Imprimis every month and hope to include it monthly on my website https://sonsofconstitutionalliberty.com/.

I’ll be pouring over it.


115 posted on 03/20/2018 7:13:25 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Innovative

Thanks - lets hope for the best. The rest of them are too politically correct - he needs some mavericks in there who KNOW the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended and are not afraid of the Boogeyman Leftists or the Big Bad Wolf Establishment.


116 posted on 03/20/2018 7:19:38 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: monkapotamus
Wouldn't call it a “theory,” exactly.

More like the marshaling of overwhelming evidence into a pattern exposing deliberate criminality that has far, far more supporting facts than the Steele dossier ever had.

But if you're Maggie Haberman, it's just a “theory.”

117 posted on 03/20/2018 7:55:56 AM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: monkapotamus

THEORY??? It is WAY MORE than a Theory!!


118 posted on 03/20/2018 10:47:30 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Jim 0216

One example of many
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ontD0Wt8aAY


119 posted on 03/20/2018 11:11:27 AM PDT by hans56 (I'm not tired of winning yet)
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To: Signalman

Trump needed an American of Italian descent on his team :)

Maybe we’ll be twice as lucky and his ancestors are from Sicily, like mine. :)

He’ll be ruthless!


120 posted on 03/20/2018 1:00:31 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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