more delicate says one the president met them, the president quote did not believe he had personal chemistry with them. the washington post had the saddest take on it, the president wanted him to be on the legal team even though he didn t know him because the president enjoyed his tv appearance, however, once he announced he hired him and brought him to the white house quote the president wasle less impressed than he had been while watching him on defense. kind of shorter than i thought. i don t even know if he s short. the president is not hiring joseph or his wife after all but announcing that he was hiring them before he even bothered to meet them cost him the representation of his actual lead lawyer on the russia scandal, who has been representing him for months and coordinating that response and now at this late date in the russia scandal, the president really doesn t have a lawyer.
uniting them is they all seem to win. jared kushner is the guy on the left with senator bob menendez. his lawyer s name is abby lowell, top drawer washington lawyer. before that, mr. kushner was represented by jamie gorelick who was also the real deal top drawer. that high-powered very well respected top drawer legal representation is important in its own right for jared kushner particularly with new news discovered tonight. on a more human level, though, it s also just a striking contrast. with what s been going on with the president himself. as of this weekend it appears that the president has no serious legal representation with the russia scandal. the lead lawyer had been this man, john dowd. so for example that s who had been negotiating with robert mueller and his prosecutors
about when and whether and how the president might end up being questioned by the special counsel and his team. and i know it feels like there s been a lot of chaotic lawyering and a strange cast of characters around the president when it comes to his legal defense but what has happened there and happened on that subject in the last week, which has resulted in the president no longer having really a russia legal defense, i got it s been nuts but what just happened in the past week is almost impossible to believe. we can now tell from the reporting that s happened over the weekend and into today that it appears what happened with john dowd is that the reason he quit, the reason the president s lead lawyer on the russia scandal submitted his resignation and walked out in the middle of the investigation is because the president announced that he was making an addition to his legal team. he said he was bringing on a guy he had seen on fox news, joseph digenova. whatever the president s r
real lawyer named richard cullen. hope hicks recently resigned white house communications director not yet 30 years old has a real lawyer. robert trout is her lawyer. he is the real deal. reince priebus, steve bannon and don mcgahn for some reason who is still white house counsel is representing william burke as their russia lawyer. he s the real deal. jared kushner has got freaking abby lowell. if you had a friend as a public official who was facing real trouble, you would want abby bolatete to be your friend s lawyer. i don t know if you feel friendly towards jared kushner but that s the situation he s in with who his lawyer is and how much trouble it looks like he might be in. it appears that his sort of lawyering firepower is matching his legal liability. mr. kushner s legal exposure in the russia scandal and related matters started off deep but they have been getting deeper ever since. it was only last summer when we learned that six months into the
which helped convince the president they weren t the right fit. the new york times was slightly more delicate with it saying once the president met them, the president quote did not believe he had personal chemistry with them. the washington post had the saddest, most unvarnished take on it. the president wanted digenova to be on his legal team even though he didn t know him because the president enjoyed his tv appearance, however, once he announced he hired him and brought him to the white house to meet him, quote, the president was less impressed with mr. digenova than he had been while watching him on television. you re kind of shorter than i thought. i don t even know if he s short. the president is not hiring joseph dooemg or his wife after all, but announces he was hiring them before he even bothered to meet them cost him the representation of his actual lead lawyer on the russia scandal, who has been representing him for months and