the rats are fleeing the sinking ship
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The White House Counsel's office is down to 25 lawyers, from 35, but many of Trump's allies fear that they are not equipped to handle Trump's growing legal problems: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/winter-is-coming-allies-fear-trump-isnt-prepared-for-gathering-legal-storm/2018/08/29/b07fc0a6-aba0-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html?utm_term=.1acbe660649d The most likely replacement for McGann is Emmett Flood: Emmett Flood, a White House lawyer and McGann ally who handles the special counsel’s Russia investigation, has long been considered a top prospect to replace McGann. People close to Flood said that if Trump offers him the counsel’s job, he would have to evaluate how best he could continue his priority of serving as the White House’s chief strategist with the Mueller probe. McGann's expertise was helping Trump select judges for his courts. Not only did he pick Neil Gorsuch and Kavanagh, he also was instrumental in picking judges for dozens of lower courts. Flood, in contrast is best known as a criminal defense lawyer. His past clients make an interesting list: Flood was a law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Antonin Scalia. Flood advised President Bill Clinton during his impeachment process. Flood's law firm also represented Hillary Clinton on matters relating to the Clinton email controversy. Flood represented Dick Cheney in response to Wilson v. Cheney, a civil lawsuit filed by Valerie Plame for his alleged role in the Plame affair. Flood advised Bob McDonnell on his response to the corruption investigation into his activities. Flood was retained by Cameron International to defend them after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In 2017, Flood was offered a job in the Trump Administration, though he declined. In March, 2018, Flood met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss the White House's response to the Special Counsel investigation. On May 2, 2018, it was reported that Flood would be replacing Ty Cobb as the White House attorney dealing with the investigation of President Donald Trump by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He is a partner at Williams & Connolly.
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The lengthy article posted below popped up in my inbox this morning: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176464/tomgram:_engelhardt,_history,_memory,_and_donald_trump Although it is an interesting read, the most significant part is the listing of FORMER employees, and the number of days that they worked for Trump: He won’t be remembered for the record crew of people who took positions in his administration only to find themselves, within a year or so (or even days), fleeing the premises or out on their noses, including Anthony Scaramucci (6 days), Michael Flynn (25 days), Mike Dubke (74 days), Sean Spicer (183 days), Reince Priebus (190 days), Sebastian Gorka (208 days), Steve Bannon (211 days), Tom Price (232 days), Dina Powell (358 days), Omarosa Manigault Newman (365 days), Rob Porter (384 days), Hope Hicks (405 days), Rex Tillerson (406 days), David Shulkin (408 days), Gary Cohn (411 days), H.R. McMaster (413 days), John McEntee (417 days), and Scott Pruitt (504 days). And White House Counsel Don McGahn was only recently tweeted out of office, too, with others to follow.
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that guy in AZ Wrote:One of these days, I'll figure out this "cutting and pasting" thing. This is the link that I meant to post on Tuesday: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/amp-stories/you-re-fired-a-timeline-of-trump-administration-departures/ Its not really surprising that these people were fired or quit. To met trump's approval, it limited to about two categories - People who are corrupt or corruptible; self-serving qualities.
- People that trump can easily manipulate; his base.
Trump needs to be the center of all things, and people that do not give him that, are gone pretty quickly. Along with people who are ethical and won't cross legal boundaries for him. He loves people who are willing to break the law on his behalf, or do other extremely questionable activities without Trump having to specifically authorize it.
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It wasn't long ago that Representative Justin Amash from Michigan bailed on the Republican Party. (Since his parents were immigrants from Palestine and Syria, why was he a Republican anyway?) Today, a former Texas judge named Elsa Alcala announced that she was leaving the party after DECADES as a Republican. "President Trump is the worst president in the history of this country," Elsa Alcala wrote in a Monday Facebook post, saying also that she will vote in the Democratic primary next year for the first time in more than 20 years. Alcala wrote, "At his core, his ideology is racism. To me, nothing positive about him could absolve him of his rotten core." She added it has taken her "years to say this publicly." Alcala told CNN Wednesday she officially switched her party affiliation from Republican to Democrat. "Please don't lecture me about abortion because today Trump's actions are resulting in the deaths of live humans in other ways," Alcala also wrote. "There is no moral high ground by Republicans on abortion or the value of life." https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/former-texas-judge-trump-ideology-racism-leaves-gop/index.html Amen.
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