‘Winter is coming’: Allies fear Trump isn’t prepared for gathering legal storm

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By Philip Rucker ,
Carol D. Leonnig ,
Josh Dawsey and
Ashley Parker
August 29 at 8:11 PM

President Trump’s advisers and allies are increasingly worried that he has neither the staff nor the strategy to protect himself from a possible Democratic takeover of the House, which would empower the opposition party to shower the administration with subpoenas or even pursue impeachment charges.

Within Trump’s orbit, there is consensus that his current legal team is not equipped to effectively navigate an onslaught of congressional demands, and there has been broad discussion about bringing on new lawyers experienced in white-collar defense and political scandals.

The president and some of his advisers have discussed possibly adding veteran defense attorney Abbe Lowell, who currently represents Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, to Trump’s personal legal team if an impeachment battle or other fights with Congress emerge after the midterm elections, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Trump advisers also are discussing recruiting experienced legal firepower to the Office of White House Counsel, which is facing departures and has dwindled in size at a critical juncture. The office has about 25 lawyers now, down from roughly 35 earlier in the presidency, according to a White House official with direct knowledge.

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[TomSea]

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/

[Sanguine]

Oh, how sweet, the WaPo writers are concerned. 

[truth_seeker]

--Trump can't win the nomination

--Trump can't win the General

--Trump can't effectively govern

But alas,

--Record low unemployment

DJIA up over 46% since Nov. 2016


Left Paris climate scam

--Left Iran nuclear scam

--Left NAFTA


--Earned back respect from our enemies and allies alike. Peace through strength


--Massive reductions in regulations

--Could do a lot more, with conservative Republican Senators and House Reps.


--Obamacare would be dead, if not for Sen. McCain

--Ended John McCain war

[corbe]

    If twitter goes down at the same time, we're screwed.
    All the starving Red Meat addicts could quickly cripple our ability to Govern.

[Frank Cannon]

    If twitter goes down at the same time, we're screwed.
    All the starving Red Meat addicts could quickly cripple our ability to Govern.

Says the guy who lives on an internet forum 24/7 just to bash a politician so the same 6 people can seal clap.

[corbe]

   We're up to 7 now.

[Free Vulcan]

They're going to have to get Congress first. Looking at the AZ and FL primaries, they Dems are going to have to get better turnout, because they got outvoted by the GOP yesterday.

[txradioguy]

--Trump can't win the nomination

--Trump can't win the General

--Trump can't effectively govern

But alas,

--Record low unemployment

DJIA up over 46% since Nov. 2016


Left Paris climate scam

--Left Iran nuclear scam

--Left NAFTA


--Earned back respect from our enemies and allies alike. Peace through strength


--Massive reductions in regulations

--Could do a lot more, with conservative Republican Senators and House Reps.


--Obamacare would be dead, if not for Sen. McCain

--Ended John McCain war

And this has anything to do with the topic how?

Oh yeah when you have nothing to say...just Spam meaningless crap.

[txradioguy]

Not sure why there should be a legal storm brewing for Trump.

He hasn't violated campaign finance laws...and that comes straight from the former head of the FEC.

There are two different memo's that Muller has now grudgingly agreed with that say you can't indict a sitting President.

Everyone involved in the investigation that led to all of this has either been fired or under criminal investigation.

There's a whole lot of nothing there.


That being said...


If we'd have picked a better candidate in the first place this kind of crap wouldn't have dominated the media for the last two years.

[Sanguine]

Not sure why there should be a legal storm brewing for Trump.

He hasn't violated campaign finance laws...and that comes straight from the former head of the FEC.

There are two different memo's that Muller has now grudgingly agreed with that say you can't indict a sitting President.

Everyone involved in the investigation that led to all of this has either been fired or under criminal investigation.

There's a whole lot of nothing there.


That being said...


If we'd have picked a better candidate in the first place this kind of crap wouldn't have dominated the media for the last two years.

Well said, TRG, but I disagree with your last sentence.  We could have elected Mother Theresa, and they left would still have created and thrown everything they could at her. 

[txradioguy]

Well said, TRG, but I disagree with your last sentence.  We could have elected Mother Theresa, and they left would still have created and thrown everything they could at her.

Agreed they would try.  But they'd find nothing.  The new tactic for the left is to character smear anyone the Republicans put up for office...it provides a smoke screen so they don't have to defend their socialist goals.

However...

With our current President...he's left a trail everywhere for the left to latch onto.