Pretty sickening when a 71 yr old man has to have his lawyer and everyone working under him, watching out for him. He is too much of a child to ever take the blame for his own doings. What a PIG!!!
Believe Trump's Lawyer Wrote That Crazy 'Firing Flynn' Tweet? I've Got Some Great Swampland For You
"I had to fire General Flynn," Trump's tweet read, "because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"
The tweet caused a frenzy in the legal community as it appeared to introduce a serious added dimension of legal exposure for the president.
As The Hill noted earlier today, "The tweet caused shockwaves, as legal experts suggested that if Trump knew that Flynn had lied to the FBI and then asked James Comey to drop the investigation, as the former FBI director has testified to Congress, it could amount to obstruction of justice."
Nice kettle of (self-inflicted) fish. But lucky for the president there was a mitigating factor! Turns out the ill-advised tweet, according to the White House, as was reported by The Washington Post, CNN and others, wasn't actually written by President Trump but by his personal lawyer John Dowd.
Whew, that was a close one. There are only three problems with this strange explanation.
1. It suggests Trump's attorneys are encouraging him to tweet on sensitive legal matters. (Yep, sounds like a solid legal strategy to me.)
2. Mr. Dowd would need direct access to the president's private Twitter account. Well, I suppose that's possible, but it would also suggest:
3. Mr. Dowd didn't realize that the past tense of "plead" is "pleaded," not "pled," as most first-year law students would know, and "pled" was the wording used in the tweet. (Well, I suppose Dowd could be a young inexperienced lad, but turns out he was born in 1941 and played a key role in the Iran-Contra affair, among many others. Not exactly a young legal pup.)
Seems a whole lot more likely to me that the loyal attorney, sensing Mr. Trump's legal jeopardy increasing by the second, took a bullet for his boss. Or perhaps a grenade.
"One lies and the other swears to it." Sorry, but there's only so much lying, misremembering, "can't recalls" and nonsensical explanations a body can stand. This all rather sadly reminds me of a story from my youth. I was 8 years old. A group of neighborhood urchins, myself included, were playing baseball in a small concrete backyard that passed for a ballfield. One of us hit a foul ball that went backward smashing a glass window of the nearby apartment building.
A few minutes later the building's janitor appeared, in his dark green janitor shirt and pants, walking over to us slowly in that world-weary way he had from having witnessed too much bad behavior for too many years.
"Well, what happened?" he asked. It wasn't our first broken window.
At first no one said anything but then one of us (I can no longer remember who) came up with some cockamamie story that miraculously absolved all of us.
Then another one of us chimed in with, "Yeah, that's it, that's just how it happened."
The janitor didn't say anything for a minute. He looked at all of us long and hard and then shook his head slowly and said in his tired disappointed voice:
"Great kids. One lies and the other swears to it."
Today it's 57 years later and I'm the janitor and that's pretty much how I feel about the whole Trump administration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victor...ot-some-great-swampland-for-you/#498a5461270f
Believe Trump's Lawyer Wrote That Crazy 'Firing Flynn' Tweet? I've Got Some Great Swampland For You
"I had to fire General Flynn," Trump's tweet read, "because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!"
The tweet caused a frenzy in the legal community as it appeared to introduce a serious added dimension of legal exposure for the president.
As The Hill noted earlier today, "The tweet caused shockwaves, as legal experts suggested that if Trump knew that Flynn had lied to the FBI and then asked James Comey to drop the investigation, as the former FBI director has testified to Congress, it could amount to obstruction of justice."
Nice kettle of (self-inflicted) fish. But lucky for the president there was a mitigating factor! Turns out the ill-advised tweet, according to the White House, as was reported by The Washington Post, CNN and others, wasn't actually written by President Trump but by his personal lawyer John Dowd.
Whew, that was a close one. There are only three problems with this strange explanation.
1. It suggests Trump's attorneys are encouraging him to tweet on sensitive legal matters. (Yep, sounds like a solid legal strategy to me.)
2. Mr. Dowd would need direct access to the president's private Twitter account. Well, I suppose that's possible, but it would also suggest:
3. Mr. Dowd didn't realize that the past tense of "plead" is "pleaded," not "pled," as most first-year law students would know, and "pled" was the wording used in the tweet. (Well, I suppose Dowd could be a young inexperienced lad, but turns out he was born in 1941 and played a key role in the Iran-Contra affair, among many others. Not exactly a young legal pup.)
Seems a whole lot more likely to me that the loyal attorney, sensing Mr. Trump's legal jeopardy increasing by the second, took a bullet for his boss. Or perhaps a grenade.
"One lies and the other swears to it." Sorry, but there's only so much lying, misremembering, "can't recalls" and nonsensical explanations a body can stand. This all rather sadly reminds me of a story from my youth. I was 8 years old. A group of neighborhood urchins, myself included, were playing baseball in a small concrete backyard that passed for a ballfield. One of us hit a foul ball that went backward smashing a glass window of the nearby apartment building.
A few minutes later the building's janitor appeared, in his dark green janitor shirt and pants, walking over to us slowly in that world-weary way he had from having witnessed too much bad behavior for too many years.
"Well, what happened?" he asked. It wasn't our first broken window.
At first no one said anything but then one of us (I can no longer remember who) came up with some cockamamie story that miraculously absolved all of us.
Then another one of us chimed in with, "Yeah, that's it, that's just how it happened."
The janitor didn't say anything for a minute. He looked at all of us long and hard and then shook his head slowly and said in his tired disappointed voice:
"Great kids. One lies and the other swears to it."
Today it's 57 years later and I'm the janitor and that's pretty much how I feel about the whole Trump administration.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victor...ot-some-great-swampland-for-you/#498a5461270f
