Posted on 03/19/2018 5:26:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump has stepped up his attacks on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation in recent days, and his lawyer even suggested that the inquiry should be shut down. And just in case the direction in which this whole thing is headed wasn't clear, Trump has now hired a lawyer who argues the president is being framed.
Trump's legal team on Monday announced the hiring of Joseph E. diGenova, a former U.S. attorney who served as an independent counsel and a special counsel in the 1990s and was later hired by the New York Senate to investigate Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D). The hiring was first reported by the New York Times.
DiGenova clearly has experience, but what may make him most attractive to Trump is his thoughts on this particular case. He told Fox News Channel in January that the investigation is “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.”
“Make no mistake about it: A group of FBI and DOJ people were trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime,” diGenova said.
That interview was the most notable in a series of TV appearances that seem, in a way, to have been auditions for joining Trump's legal team. We know that Trump seems to like hiring people who say things he likes on cable TV, and diGenova has supplied no shortage of that. Much of diGenova's commentary has described a vast law-enforcement conspiracy to take down Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It’s not a theory if there really is a conspiracy.
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Exactly.
Extraordinarily biased article. Even for WaPo!
I say “framed” doesn’t cover it. How about “assaulted” ... whatever. We know the score.
“Trump just hired a deep-state conspiracy theorist as his lawyer.”
Said by a Trump-Russia conspiracy theorist, with no apparent sense of irony.
disinformation motivated by fear.
regardless, I feel great!
Boom.
Excellent move.
Amazing interview with Joe Digenova, watch it!! It’s 30 minutes long...well worth it.
[ “Make no mistake about it: A group of FBI and DOJ people were trying to frame Donald Trump of a falsely created crime,” diGenova said. ]
Ahhh, O.K. Truth is now “a conspiracy theory”.
Nully, we’ve got to re-calibrate.
The next FReepathon begins in just two weeks.
We need to finish this one first.
Come on FReepers, let’s do this!!!
<><>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.
DiGenova's right on the money.
Great News! The WAPO is very unhappy with DiGenova.
Trump is soo over the target. I’ll have more of that, please.
Actually WaPo if you were doing your job you would know it’s not a theory.
Good move, now he should hire Greg Jarrett and give Ty Cobb his one way ticket back to the Hall of Fame.
What no professional courtesy from WaPo to diG the fellow conspirator ?
Aaron Blake and the WaPo exposes their ignorance...Again.
If they don’t see a conspiracy here there is no such thing as a conspiracy.
A pathetic soyboy style takedown of Joseph E. diGenova ends up listing his accomplishments. I checked out the comments and The Compost readers like what they are being fed.
Joe DiGenova is a realist and he can smell a RAT 10 miles away.
I guess this author has not seen the poll out today showing that 74% of Americans think there is a deep state. I think President Trump has exposed the deep state to many people who never believed it existed before.
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_031918/
“Few Americans (13%) are very familiar with the term “Deep State;” another 24% are somewhat familiar, while 63% say they are not familiar with this term. However, when the term is described as a group of unelected government and military officials who secretly manipulate or direct national policy, nearly 3-in-4 (74%) say they believe this type of apparatus exists in Washington.”
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