{"id":37773,"date":"2018-05-02T13:27:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37773"},"modified":"2018-05-02T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T20:30:43","slug":"kiss-of-death-another-trump-goon-sleeps-with-the-fishes-after-praise-from-the-white-house-don","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37773","title":{"rendered":"Kiss of Death? Another Trump Goon Sleeps With the Fishes After Praise From the White House Don"},"content":{"rendered":"

The big news out of Washington on Wednesday is that Donald Trump’s last remaining original lawyer working on Russia collusion matters is off the case. The President has had a difficult time hiring and maintaining legal defenders to counter the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller. A few weeks ago his lead attorney, John Dowd was dismissed. And his personal attorney, Michael Cohen has his own legal problems and might be close to flipping<\/a><\/strong> on his former client.<\/p>\n

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Ty Cobb was one of the first lawyers that Trump brought aboard to handle the special counsel matter. And throughout a tumultuous tenure. Trump has fiercely insisted that Cobb was in it for the duration and had his “full confidence.”<\/em> Trump affirmed that in a tweet<\/a><\/strong> as recently as April 12. What’s more, Trump was outraged (as usual) at the the New York Times for reporting last March that there were problems within his legal team and that changes were imminent:<\/p>\n

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The Failing New York Times purposely wrote a false story stating that I am unhappy with my legal team on the Russia case and am going to add another lawyer to help out. Wrong. I am VERY happy with my lawyers, John Dowd, Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow. They are doing a great job and…..<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n