October 17, 2019
IF THEY HADN'T ALL DESTROYED THEIR REPUTATIONS...:
Trump's legal team is reportedly 'stunned' after Mick Mulvaney admitted to a quid pro quo (Kathryn Krawczyk, 10/17/19, The Week)
"If the White House was withholding aid in regards to the cooperation of any investigation at the Department of Justice, that is news to us," a senior DOJ official said in a statement to reporters Thursday. This comes after another DOJ official told reporters they "have no idea what [Mulvaney] is talking about."But over on President Trump's personal legal team, things aren't going so well. "I think people are a bit stunned," one person familiar with the team's thinking told CNN. Another source called Mulvaney's briefing "not helpful," per CNN. Trump's top attorney Jay Sekulow, meanwhile, briefly said "the legal team was not involved in the acting chief of staff's press briefing."
...one might think he'd seen enough and decided to end this presidency.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 17, 2019 5:36 PM