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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's personal lawyer, John Dowd...declared, Im out of the tweeting business.
Maybe Dowd does not want to take the fall for Trumper over twitter anymore???
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-lawyer-says-president-knew-flynn-had-given-fbi-the-same-account-he-gave-to-vice-president/2017/12/03/5c59a620-d849-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html?utm_term=.c9c4fa8fdba6
.......... Trumps Saturday tweets had stoked controversy, as he wrote that I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. Previously, the White House had cited only the false statements to Pence as a rationale for dismissing Flynn.
Dowd confirmed Sunday that he had drafted the tweet for Trump and acknowledged that it was sloppily worded. He said it was inaccurate to say the president was told that Flynn had lied to the FBI. Dowd said Sunday that Trump knew only what acting attorney general Sally Yates had told the White House counsel: that Flynns accounts to the agents interviewing him were the same as those Flynn gave Pence, and that the [Justice] Department was not accusing him of lying.
People familiar with Yates account say she never discussed any part of the FBI investigation with the White House.
Dowd played down the significance of Trumps tweet, saying he did not intend to make news and declared, Im out of the tweeting business........................
Arkansas Granny
(31,537 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)It doesn't appear to be his best career choice...
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)Does he expect us to believe he was using Trump's phone?
And doesn't he realize that if investigators are already that deep, he and his client are fucked?
NanceGreggs
(27,820 posts)... that it was sloppily worded?
Yeah, sending a tweet that implicates your client as having obstructed justice is pretty damned sloppy.
Maybe it's time Dowd got out of the lawyering business.
deminks
(11,018 posts)whether you lied or not. Keep talking, dirtbag. You are gonna have to testify under oath, and then we shall see.
underpants
(182,962 posts)CanonRay
(14,123 posts)Is he trying to make a case for incompetent counsel?