Dowd has felt that his client isn’t following his advice….
The president’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, John Dowd, resigned on Thursday, according to two people briefed on the matter, days after the president called for an end to the inquiry.
Mr. Dowd, who took over the president’s legal team last summer, had considered leaving several times in recent months and ultimately concluded that Mr. Trump was increasingly ignoring his advice, one of the people said. Mr. Trump has insisted he should sit for an interview with the special counsel’s office, even though Mr. Dowd believed it was a bad idea.
It is not clear who will take over the legal team. Mr. Trump’s other personal lawyer for the investigation, Jay Sekulow, is liked by the president and recently brought on one of his longtime friends, Joseph E. diGenova, to join the team. Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer for the investigation, came aboard around the same time as Mr. Dowd and Mr. Sekulow and advocated on behalf of cooperating with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating Russia’s election interference and possible ties to Trump associates….
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All diGenova is going to be good for is appearing on FoxNews to expound on some of his conspiracy theories.
Of course Trump will like that.
Sounds to me as if Dowd gave him good advice.
His answering questions from Mueller could be his undoing.Also, that advice could mean that Dowd suspects that Mueller may be laying a trap for Trump, who ,as a pathological liar may fall right into if he agrees to sit for questioning.
I don’t say what Trump thinks he would gain from this.Republicans are going to defend him no matter what so he has no problem there.
Does deGenona get paid by Fox AND Trump?
Oooops!
via twitter….
Shimon Prokupecz
@ShimonPro
CNN: Joseph diGenova’s role, as well as that of his wife and law partner, Victoria Toensing who is also in discussions about joining the legal team, are in flux. After meeting on Thursday, Trump is not convinced they are right for the legal jobs. No one has been officially hired