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As President Trump heads into one of the most critical phases of the special counsel’s investigation, his personal legal team has shrunk to essentially just one member, and he is struggling to find any top lawyers willing to represent him.
Working for a president is usually seen as a dream job. But leading white-collar lawyers in Washington and New York have repeatedly spurned overtures to take over the defense of Mr. Trump, a mercurial client who often ignores his advisers’ guidance. In some cases, lawyers’ firms have blocked any talks, fearing a backlash that would hurt business.
The president lost two lawyers in just the past four days, including one who had been on board for less than a week.
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That leaves the president with just one personal lawyer who is working full time on the special counsel’s investigation as Mr. Trump is facing one of the most significant decisions related to it: whether to sit for an interview.
That lawyer, Jay Sekulow, is a conservative commentator who made his name on religious freedom cases. Mr. Sekulow is in talks with other lawyers about joining the team, although it is not clear how far those discussions have progressed.
A porn actress says she had sex with Donald Trump, only a few months after his wife gave birth to a son. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/03/23/former-playboy-model-gives-emotional-account-of-alleged-affair-with-trump-apologizes-to-melania/ (A former Playboy model) says she had an affair with him, too. And yet according to a Pew Research Center pollconducted March 7-14, both white mainline and evangelical Protestants continue to approve of Trump as president at higher levels than other religious groups.
Why are white Christians sticking so closely to President Trump, despite these claims of sexual indiscretions? And why are religious individuals and groups that previously decried sexual impropriety among political leaders suddenly https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/23/you-get-a-do-over-here-evangelical-leaders-apparent-double-standard-on-the-alleged-trump-daniels-affair/?utm_term=.43269e55748a (willing to give Trump a “mulligan”) on his infidelity?
Our new study points to a different answer than others have offered. Voters’ religious tenets aren’t what is behind Trump support; rather, it’s Christian nationalism — their view of the United States as a fundamentally Christian nation.
It’s no longer surprising when the president of the United States makes a basic factual error. Such is par for the course in the Trump era. But for a long-tenured member of his Cabinet to make the same mistake several days later, as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin did Sunday morning, is worrying on a different level.
On “Fox News Sunday,” Mnuchin was tasked with defending the president’s signing Friday of a $1.3 trillion spending bill, to the scorn of many on the far right. Asked by host Chris Wallace what the president would do if congressional Republicans sent Trump another spending bill of this size later this year, Mnuchin repeated a suggestion that President Trump made Friday: Congress should give him the power of “line-item veto,” i.e. the ability to veto portions of the bill without vetoing the whole.
The problem? As Wallace pointed out, “that’s been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, sir.”
Wallace is correct: The Supreme Court ruled the line-item veto unconstitutional in 1998. But instead of conceding his mistake, Mnuchin dug himself in deeper: “Well, again, Congress could pass a rule, okay, that allows them to do it.” When Wallace pointed out that “No, no, sir, it would be a constitutional amendment,” Mnuchin stammered, “Chris, we don’t need to get into a debate in terms of — there’s different ways of doing this” and moved on.
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That a member of his Cabinet made the same error two days later is far more disturbing. The Sunday talk shows may not be as important as they used to be, but White House officials do not usually go on them unprepared. For Mnuchin to make this mistake days later means two things: 1.) The treasury secretary, more than a year into his tenure, is not aware of basic budget-making procedure; 2.) Either no one else senior enough at the White House to prepare Mnuchin knew those basics, or no one was organized enough to prep the one Cabinet member to appear on any of the Sunday shows this weekend.
In the president’s first 400 days, we’ve seen plenty of government by amateurs. But as “record-setting turnover” in Trump’s White House continues apace, his administration seems determined to mine new levels of incompetence. Mnuchin would play a critical role in the next economic crisis. If he can’t get something so basic right, what chance does the country have when things get tough?
Let’s set aside the political question of the agreement reached between adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney at the Trump Organization. And let’s set aside the legal questions that surround the idea that the payment was meant to bury the story before the 2016 election, which we have https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/09/new-evidence-the-stormy-daniels-payment-may-have-violated-election-law/?utm_term=.2413727ea20b (explored elsewhere).
Let’s instead consider another question that might apply to individuals who work for the government in less significant capacities than the presidency. Does the existence of that agreement with Daniels (and, potentially, one with http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/03/26/there-are-now-multiple-legal-questions-surrounding-attempts-to-hide-alleged-trump-relationships/ (Playmate Karen McDougal)) mean that Trump was susceptible to blackmail in a way that might cost someone else a government position?
This has been presented as the more significant question to emerge from the “60 Minutes” interview with Daniels that aired on Sunday. In Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury” (which has justifiably prompted some skepticism) former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon is quoted as suggesting that Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz “took care of” a hundred women during the campaign. None of those women have come forward, but the stories presented by Daniels and McDougal (only the latter of which was public when Wolff’s book was published) make clear that there have been some instances in which relationships with Trump were kept out of the public eye in exchange for money.
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"The amended complaint broadens Daniels’s contention that the confidentiality agreement was illegal, because it lacked Trump’s signature. The new complaint says the payment violated federal laws that impose limits on campaign donations..."
Stormy Daniels ramped up her legal battle against President Trump on Monday, alleging in court that his personal attorney Michael Cohen defamed her by insinuating that she lied about an affair with Trump more than a decade ago.
Daniels amended her existing lawsuit against Trump, adding Cohen as a defendant in the pending case. The expansion of the lawsuit in a California federal court comes one day after the adult-film actress’s https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-eve-of-60-minutes-interview-stormy-daniels-says-working-in-porn-helped-prepare-her-for-public-scrutiny/2018/03/24/b1555594-2ea6-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html?utm_term=.b59fba3f5272 (widely watched interview on “60 Minutes.”)
"The amended complaint broadens Daniels’s contention that the confidentiality agreement was illegal, because it lacked Trump’s signature. The new complaint says the payment violated federal laws that impose limits on campaign donations..."
Stormy Daniels ramped up her legal battle against President Trump on Monday, alleging in court that his personal attorney Michael Cohen defamed her by insinuating that she lied about an affair with Trump more than a decade ago.
Daniels amended her existing lawsuit against Trump, adding Cohen as a defendant in the pending case. The expansion of the lawsuit in a California federal court comes one day after the adult-film actress’s https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-eve-of-60-minutes-interview-stormy-daniels-says-working-in-porn-helped-prepare-her-for-public-scrutiny/2018/03/24/b1555594-2ea6-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html?utm_term=.b59fba3f5272 (widely watched interview on “60 Minutes.”)
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yea i wonder how many therapists clinton’s kid has been to to date. got to be fuked up mentally poor girl
