Posted on 03/25/2018 8:25:30 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
President Trump is not adding Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing to his legal team for the Russia investigation, per the New York Times. Conflicts of interest will ultimately prevent the married team from representing Trump — just days after diGenova's addition was announced last week — though another of Trump's lawyers, Jay Sekulow, said they will work for the president on "other legal matters."
Why it matters: Trump's personal legal team is in a state of flux after its leader, John Dowd, resigned last week. And diGenova and Toensing's conflicts come just days after GOP superstar lawyer Theodore Olson rejected an offer to join the Trump team — potentially prompting Trump's tweets this morning insisting that "many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case."
It seems the Friday bill signing has brought the “Never Trumpers” out of the woodwork....
Assios trying to stir up doubt and discord as usual. But they managed to slip in this little item:
> “ though another of Trump’s lawyers, Jay Sekulow, said they will work for the president on “other legal matters.””
Yeah, that other legal matter would be indicting Mueller on Uranium One corruption to force his resignation unless he’s smart or lucky enough to resign beforehand.
The gloves are off.
Really? Trump hasn’t fired John Dowd? Or I’m sorry, Dowd resigned to spend more time practicing law with his, uh, family.
lol!
I don't think he's naive about what's going on. As a businessman he dealt with this garbage all the time. But he had decades of learning who he could trust and who he couldn't. Now he's got to learn the same thing in a different arena...who to trust and who to not trust. He'll be okay but there will be hiccups.
There’s some unseen reason for this, and I doubt that President Trump will say any more.
With President Trump’s epic trolling of congress this week, I’m going to just watch to see how this turns out later.
The Salvati case in Boston really stinks.
Salvati got railroaded in the 1960s before Mueller was involved, but Mueller continued the cover-up in the 1980s.
And no telling what he knew about Whitey Bulger in the 1980s when Whitey was terrorizing Boston with the complicity of the FBI. (Then Agent-in-charge John Connolly is currently serving a life sentence for conspiring with Whitey.)
There's nothing in the Russian investigation to defend against.
Jay Sekulow, said they will work for the president on "other legal matters."
Joe and Victoria could be Trump's shadow DOJ?
One should check for such problems before you make public annoucements, not afterwards. It makes me wonder if something else happened. Not good either way.
Oh, please.
It will be interesting to see if Joe does his recurring radio appearance on WMAL this Monday. He will of course say nothing about anything touched by attorney client privilege. He has, however, been very outspoken on the Mueller investigstion. It will be interesting to see if his analysis has changed.
It sure has.
He's a man of action in order get things done. He moves quickly to change people and things if they are not to his liking.
He doesn't worry about appearances like the politicians do.
He just wants to get the job done.
I don't know what the conflict of interest issue is, but diGenova and Toensing are both top-notch.
I'm not so sure about that.
Nothing Trump does is obvious at first blush.
He did this for a reason. Nothing he does is by happenstance.
Something else is going on but Trump is known for not telegraphing his moves.
We should relax, breathe deep and wait for this to play out.
Trump is up to something.
“I am not surprised in the least.”
President Trump - “We will start the new wall on Monday”
American Thinker
President Trump hints he may use Defense budget to build the border wall now
“Build WALL through M” sounds like a plan that John Salisbury outlined in a Twitter thread yesterday. Rather than embed each tweet, I will post their contents below. Readers who want to reference an individual tweet may visit the link above to review the entire thread.
1) Let’s talk about what the President can and can’t do for this Omnibus Bill. There’s a lot of discussion both ways so let’s examine how money gets allocated & spent in the US Government:
1. Congress allocates money to be spent. The President spends the allocated money.
2. Once Congress allocates money, their job is oversight of the money being spent. They don’t spend the money and have no say HOW it gets spent as long as it’s spent legally. That’s their job to monitor with oversight.
3. Once the President is given the money with the instructions to spend it, he has a number of choices to make in spending it. There are some rules he has to follow & some of the money is fungible and some isn’t.
4. However there are some other factors that are in play here. One of them is that the President has declared a Human Rights Emergency AND has notified Congress that he’s invoking the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 5. This opens up new options.
6. By making these two declarations President Trump has just communicated that he has the authority to NOT spend any funds he doesn’t deem necessary and will return them to the US Treasury. So, funds for Planned Parenthood? He can simply not allocate the funds.
7. Also, these declarations make some funds fungible. For instance if he determines that building a Wall on the Southern Border is a defense against Human Trafficking? He can move funds from anywhere else in the Defense Dept Allocation & simply build the Wall.
8. Congress is powerless to stop cash reallocations on an omnibus bill AND cannot stop the DOD from taking measures under a declared Emergency. 9. Despite their language in the Omnibus Bill about the Border Wall, it is trumped by the State of Emergency that Trump declared.
8) So in summary - This will go to the Courts. Congress will sue the President over the Border Wall. But here’s how it will play out - Congress and the President are co-equal branches with different functions. Congress allocates. The President spends.
9) The President has National Security as his Primary Responsibility and it’s his job to use whatever funds and declarations he needs to for that job. No Court in this Nation (except corrupt on the take Judges) would EVER rule against a President for exercising that authority.
10) In the end the Supreme Court (yes, that’s where it will end) will fully VALIDATE the President’s Constitutional Authority & the Wall will be built. /end #MAGA #QAnon #TQFam #8Chan #TheGreatAwakening #TheStormIsHere @POTUS #InternetBillOfRights #FreeTheInternet
In a later tweet, Salisbury speculates:
This has got Mulvaney’s fingerprints all over it...
Note that Nick Mulvaney, head of the OMB, outmaneuvered and outsmarted Elizabeth Warren’s cats paws at the Consumer Financial Protection Board, and became simultaneously the director there in order to begin dismantling its burdensome regulations. Taking advantage of Warren’s design, he is now immune from Congressional oversight there. There is little doubt that he is highly skilled at using bureaucratic and legal farmeworks.
I am not a constitutional lawyer, and have no idea if this strategy would work. But I ike the way it promises to get the job done.
Personally, I like the first one!
Border wall prototype picture via Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cbpphotos/26151119719/in/photostream/
I don't think the SC needs to be confirmed by anybody. The SC is appointed by the AG (or the DAG acting as the AG).
That said, the current DAG wouldn't pic DiGenova and I believe if you fire the current DAG, a new DAG would have to be confirmed.
Yeah, that's it. 🙄
When were YOU hired, by POTUS, for his legal team strategy?
I agree.
I have decided to relax about the whole omnibus bill and see what plays out. We may be very surprised.
Perhaps this legal duo are going to be involved in the take down of the world ring of child traffickers. For the president to have hired them, and then announce there’s a conflict tells me that they have done some major strategy rethinks and want them on the team but not committed to anything in particular as of yet.
Representing witnesses involved in the cases/investigations.
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