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[Electric Eye]

Trump's legal team is really, really bad at their job.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/us/politics/trump-russia-legal.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Hoping to Have Trump Cleared, Legal Team Eases Resistance to Inquiry

White House officials once debated a scorched-earth strategy of publicly criticizing and undercutting Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian efforts to disrupt last year’s election. Now, President Trump’s lawyers are pursuing a different course: cooperating with the special counsel in the hope that Mr. Mueller will declare in the coming months that Mr. Trump is not a target of the Russia inquiry.

Once Mr. Mueller has combed through the evidence, Mr. Trump’s lawyers plan to ask him to affirm that Mr. Trump is not under investigation, either for colluding with Russian operatives or for trying to obstruct justice.

Best Part which shows Just how stupid his team is.

Whether the strategy will work is another matter. The plan rests on the premise that Mr. Trump has done nothing wrong — something the president has repeatedly told his lawyers and said publicly — and some lawyers connected to the investigation say that Mr. Cobb has been too willing to take the president at his word. If the White House moves too hastily, they argue, materials could end up in Mr. Mueller’s hands that might damage the president and other administration officials.

 

[Shauni]

Mr. Cobb sounds about right since he seems to have the intelligence of a corn on the cobb.

 

[Alucrid]

Did his lawyers go out for lunch at another steakhouse?

 

[ultracal31]

Stupidgate indeed...

 

[Slayven]

That is the quality you get when no serious lawyer will touch you with a 10 foot pole

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Trump months from now, hopefully

 

[Quixzlizx]

 

[Strike]

Edit: Beaten!

 

[Electric Eye]

Did his lawyers go out for lunch at another steakhouse?

No they have made this strategy public actually. From the article.

More than a half dozen White House officials, witnesses and outside lawyers connected to the Russia inquiry have described the approach, which is as much a public relations strategy as a legal one.

 

[Doctoglethorpe]

shhhhhhhh, don't tell them.

 

[Game-Biz]

Mr. Cobb seems a little cornfused.

Eh....

 

[Dash_Riprock]

If you can't beat'em, join'em?

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

So, do they not realize that cooperating with the enemy only works if you can get away with it?

 

[Rorschach]

Trump months from now, hopefully

There's a good chance I may have committed some light treason.

 

[hidys]

Gee I wonder what Trump’s reaction to this strategy will be?

 

[Hyun Sai]

 

[BoboBrazil]

Cobb is doing the right thing guys. He should be cooperating which any competent attorney would do.

 

[Magilla]

Edit: Beaten!

Beaten like Trumps attorneys?

 

[TAJ]

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Cobb is doing the right thing guys. He should be cooperating which any competent attorney would do.

Nobody is questioning that.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Why would he cooperate if he's guilty? /investigation

 

[Not]

Maybe this is a good sign that they're too incompetent to prevent Mueller from indicting Trump.

 

[Imperfected]

Trump months from now, hopefully

Honestly it's his own fault if what this article says is true.

You don't lie to your fucking attorneys. You're paying them as much as you are so you don't have to, and so they can lie to everyone else for you.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

They still don't get it, do they? He wasn't under investigation til he started to tweet that made him suspicious

 

[kevin1025]

Maybe this is a good sign that they're too incompetent to prevent Mueller from indicting Trump.

Maybe if we're nice to him, he won't put us all behind bars!

 

[TheBryanJZX90]

Possible reasons:

He actually didn't do anything that will get him in trouble
He didn't do anything that will bother his base
He did something bad but just hopes they won't be thorough enough to ask for it
He did something bad and his attorneys intend to commit perjury/obstruct justice and say they are cooperating and turning everything over, but aren't actually going to give everything
He did something bad and is going to actually cooperate in the hopes of plea bargaining to something minor

 

[ThLunarian]

Could be that his attorneys are just taking Trump's money but secretly want him to go down

 

[Electric Eye]

Maybe this is a good sign that they're too incompetent to prevent Mueller from indicting Trump.

Their entire strategy is to have Mueller publicly proclaim that Trump isn't under investigation the exact same thing that Trump wanted from Comey in other words they have no strategy and what they are dealing with is a narcissistic client who can't let go and is still hung up on what Comey wouldn't do for him, pledge allegiance and lie on his behalf. Trump is sunk.

 

[Auto_aim1]

Never believe what Trump says. These lawyers are a special kind of stupid.

 

[grandjedi6]

At the very least, Trump's definition of obstruction of justice and collusion are different from reality's. So it doesn't mean much if Trump says he's telling the truth as that still wouldn't match reality.

 

[epmode]

Possible reasons:

He actually didn't do anything that will get him in trouble

Even if there’s absolutely nothing to the Russia thing, he’s still on the hook for obstruction of justice. And that’s just based on his own public statements.

 

[Lowmelody]

That's the sound of every defense attorney in the country simultaneously smashing their hand through their forehead.

 

[Zolo]

Sounds like a good idea. Keep it up.

 

[ManDudeChild]

Could be that his attorneys are just taking Trump's money but secretly want him to go down

Now THERE is an interesting footnote in history if true. That would be just awesome.

 

[RandomExpletive]

Possible reasons:

He actually didn't do anything that will get him in trouble
He didn't do anything that will bother his base
He did something bad but just hopes they won't be thorough enough to ask for it
He did something bad and his attorneys intend to commit perjury/obstruct justice and say they are cooperating and turning everything over, but aren't actually going to give everything
He did something bad and is going to actually cooperate in the hopes of plea bargaining to something minor

Would be swell if they withheld some important info that Mueller already has, and got nailed for doing so

 

[YoungFa]

I always imagine his lawyers to be the cast of jersey shore. Then the world makes sense again.

 

[The Kree]

He's going to walk.

 

[thepenguin55]

This is great. I’m guessing Trump thinks he’s covered his tracks... we’ll see.

 

[XAL]

Mr. Cobb sounds about right since he seems to have the intelligence of a corn on the cobb.

Just lawyers on a cobb.

 

[Surfinn]

Sure guys, trust a known liar.

What could go wrong?

 

[Marvie_3]

This is ridiculously funny

 

[ImaLemming]

Could be that his attorneys are just taking Trump's money but secretly want him to go down

I thought he never paid his lawyers (or, you know, anyone), which is why the competent ones don't want anything to do with him.

 

[Beer Monkey]

in the hope that Mr. Mueller will declare in the coming months that Mr. Trump is not a target of the Russia inquiry

I literally choked laughing.

I thought he never paid his lawyers (or, you know, anyone), which is why the competent ones don't want anything to do with him.

Pretty sure they are insisting on getting paid in advance. Retainers.

 

[kitsunelaine]

Now give us your tax returns.

 

[Blizzard]

He's going to walk.

What do you base this on?

With the depth that Mueller is taking in the investigation, and the people he's assembled for it, pretty much the only way that he would walk would be if he actually hasn't done something he can be convicted of, wouldn't you say?

For example, Zainab Ahmad is 13-0 in terrorist prosecutions.

 

[Sanjuro]

Mueller: Has Mr. Trump ever been featured in a pornographic film?

Attorney: Oh, sure he has.

 

[Taramoor]

This actually seems like a smart strategy.

Give Mueller everything and then some, in fact help him find all the evidence, get the entire inquiry over and the findings locked in while the GOP controls the House and the Senate. Have Trump pardon everybody while Congress refuses to act. Boom, problem solved.

 

[Beer Monkey]

This actually seems like a smart strategy.

Give Mueller everything and then some, in fact help him find all the evidence, get the entire inquiry over and the findings locked in while the GOP controls the House and the Senate. Have Trump pardon everybody while Congress refuses to act. Boom, problem solved.

And then he and his cronies gets fucked in New York courts.

 

[B-Dubs]

How would he be innocent of obstruction? He literally admitted to it on national TV in an interview with Lester Holt!

 

[fanboi]

What do you base this on?

With the depth that Mueller is taking in the investigation, and the people he's assembled for it, pretty much the only way that he would walk would be if he actually hasn't done something he can be convicted of, wouldn't you say?

For example, Zainab Ahmad is 13-0 in terrorist prosecutions.

Don’t you need the senate to impeach him also? You can’t just do a normal case against him.