Everything’s fine, totally normal
Aw. Poor Don is having trouble hiring new lawyers now.
President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase.
“The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in a statement on Sunday morning. “However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the president in other legal matters. The president looks forward to working with them.”
And Dowd quit on Thursday. Rats, sinking ship, at all, maybe?
The president met with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing, who are married, in recent days to discuss the possibility that they would join his legal team in the Mueller case. According to two people told of details about the meeting, the president did not believe he had personal chemistry with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing.
“Personal chemistry” – what does that mean in Trump’s case? They seemed too intelligent? Not quite corrupt enough? Sketchy in the bullying department?
The news about the canceled legal appointments came as White House officials were girding themselves for an interview on Sunday evening on the CBS program “60 Minutes” with the porn star known as Stormy Daniels.
Yes, well, don’t be too surprised if Trump drops a nuke on someone in the next few hours, just to make sure nobody will be watching 60 Minutes.
On Sunday, one of Mr. Trump’s closest friends, Christopher Ruddy, said the president was “perplexed” by reports of turmoil in his administration. Speaking on the ABC program “This Week,” Mr. Ruddy, who is the chief executive of Newsmax Media, said he expected the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, to stay in his job, despite the president’s chafing at what he sees as the restrictions Mr. Kelly has placed on him.
Oh yes? Well if Trump is “chafing” then Kelly is halfway out the door.
I’d suspect the “personal chemistry” problem is that Trump caught the couple rolling their eyes to each other when they thought Donny wasn’t looking.
Ms. Toensing was a 6, and he couldn’t understand why any hotshot lawyer would want to fuck her, let alone get married to her.
Thank you, Seth. I was wondering why the lawyers being married was relevant. I didn’t realise that the words ‘to one another’ had been omitted.