Politics Trumpy loses another lawyer — Ty Cobb leaving, replaced by Clinton attorney

It's only Wednesday and already this has been a fun week for Trumpy.

Let's review:

Supposed questions that Mueller wants to ask Trumpy was given to the NY Times.

Trumpy has a meltdown. Blames Mueller & Dept of Justice for leaking.

Nope, Trumpy's former attorney Jay Sekulow leaked them.

Trump continues to meltdown, still blaming Mueller and the DOJ.

So Trump's lead lawyer, Ty Cobb, says fuck it. The orange dumbshit won't shut the fuck up, I'm out of here.

Now Trumpy's legal team is Rudy G and a former Clinton attorney.

Good times!

 

Shep Smith: There's a 'concerted effort' for Fox News guests to warn Trump against Mueller interview

Fox News’ Shepard Smith said on his show Wednesday that there’s a push to have guests on television shows, including those on Fox News, warn President Trump against interviewing with special counsel Robert Mueller.

“There appears to be a concerted effort to put a bunch of people on television, having seen those questions, and to say into the television — like this channel — ‘don’t do it Mr. President, don’t do it,” Smith said, referring to the recently leaked list of questions Mueller reportedly plans to ask Trump in a potential interview.

Reuters reporter Jeff Mason, a guest on Smith’s show, noted that Trump is known for watching television.

“He’s got a lot of surrogates as we call them, or friends out there who speak for him or speak on behalf of his advisers,” Mason said.

“And they all say 'don’t do it,'” Smith interjected.

“Exactly, and if they start saying that you never know if that will have an impact,” Mason continued.

Trump is known for watching cable news, particularly Fox News. He often tweets about the channel's programming and is close with network hosts like Sean Hannity.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/3...-effort-to-have-people-on-fox-news-warn-trump

 

2 of the 3 attorneys mentioned in this are now gone.

 

Giuliani: Trump repaid attorney Cohen for Stormy Daniels settlement

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor and a recent addition to President Trump’s legal team, said Wednesday night that Trump made a series of payments reimbursing his attorney, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 settlement with an adult-film actress — appearing to contradict Trump’s assertion last month that he was unaware of the payment.

“The president repaid it,’’ Giuliani told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity.

Trump “didn’t know about the specifics of it, as far as I know. But he did know the general arrangement, that Michael would take care of things like this, like I take care of things like this with my clients,” Giuliani said. “I don’t burden them with every single thing that comes along. These are busy people.’’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...58a1aa9ac0a_story.html?utm_term=.2925f635a47a

 

Giuliani’s remarks raise the question of whether Trump misrepresented his knowledge of the arrangement.

Last month, a reporter on Air Force One pressed Trump about the payment, asking him, “Did you know about the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels?”

Trump responded, “No.”

The reporter then asked, “Then why did Michael Cohen make [the payment], if there was no truth to her allegations?”

“You’ll have to ask Michael Cohen,” Trump said. “Michael’s my attorney, and you’ll have to ask Michael.”

Another reporter asked the president, “Do you know where he got the money to make that payment?”

“No,” Trump said. “I don’t know.”

On Wednesday night, Giuliani said Trump repaid Cohen through a series of payments over a period of months, but didn’t specify when they occurred.

Cohen has said he arranged the financing of the settlement with Daniels through his home-equity line of credit. In a statement earlier this year, he did not mention any role by Trump.

“Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” Cohen said, using Daniels’s real name, Stephanie Clifford.

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Cohen’s business practices, including whether there were any crimes committed as part of a possible pattern or strategy of buying the silence of people who could offer accounts in 2016 that could have damaged Trump’s candidacy, according to people familiar with the probe.

Daniels sued Trump in early March, seeking to void the deal she signed shortly before the 2016 election. That suit also named Essential Consultants, a company that Cohen set up as a vehicle for the $130,000 payment.

Michael Avenatti, an attorney for Daniels, said Giuliani’s comments suggested campaign finance violations and possibly bank fraud and money laundering.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...58a1aa9ac0a_story.html?utm_term=.2925f635a47a

 

"We'll see what happens"

barfo

 

Damn, Rudy G just keeps shooting himself and Trump in the foot.

 

Oops, Fox News has turned on Trump.

 

Plausible deniability. He can say he paid Cohen back, but not know what for.

Now, about those emails...

 

"Oh my god, it's Uday and Qusay!"