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Jay Sekulow Wrote Those Questions? He Really Is The Dumbest Lawyer In America
Jay Sekulow Wrote Those Questions? He Really Is The Dumbest Lawyer In America
Mueller raised the prospect of a subpoena... we're entering uncharted constitutional ground now.
By JOE PATRICE
at 10:02 AM
We knew those questions were leaked by the Trump team. When the New York Times announced that they’d received several possible questions that Mueller might ask Trump, the source was never in doubt, only the motive of the Trump lawyers doing the leaking. Elie Mystal mused that they might come from the Giuliani side in a sly effort to impress upon Trump exactly how serious this is. But that theory never really sat right with me.
Could Giuliani, with a prosecutorial and Biglaw background, really pull such an amateurish stunt? Would he really want to expose work product to the scrutiny of the press and risk showing the world the slapdash nature of Trump’s legal defense? As one former prosecutor pointed out, the leaked questions couldn’t even get basic grammar right!
Questionable strategy and grammatical applesauce? By GAWD… that’s Jay Sekulow’s music!
Obviously, this all comes back to Jay Sekulow. He’s Brainy Smurf after Brainy already landed on his head 20-30 times too many. Reports suggest that he’s the one who wrote the questions that ended up in the Times, and theoretically the mastermind behind the leak, intended to suggest that Mueller has overstepped his mandate (which some of us suspected all along). From the Washington Post:
Funny you should throw Starr under the bus like that, because Kenny “Go Bears” Starr is actually one of the very few “serious” legal analysts who actually buys this tripe about Mueller exceeding his mandate. Watching Starr take to the cable news circuit and bash himself will actually be appointment television for the next week. One more sad chapter for him — becoming the Republican’s definition of a bad lawyer.
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Joe Patrice is an editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.
Mueller raised the prospect of a subpoena... we're entering uncharted constitutional ground now.
By JOE PATRICE
at 10:02 AM
We knew those questions were leaked by the Trump team. When the New York Times announced that they’d received several possible questions that Mueller might ask Trump, the source was never in doubt, only the motive of the Trump lawyers doing the leaking. Elie Mystal mused that they might come from the Giuliani side in a sly effort to impress upon Trump exactly how serious this is. But that theory never really sat right with me.
Could Giuliani, with a prosecutorial and Biglaw background, really pull such an amateurish stunt? Would he really want to expose work product to the scrutiny of the press and risk showing the world the slapdash nature of Trump’s legal defense? As one former prosecutor pointed out, the leaked questions couldn’t even get basic grammar right!
Questionable strategy and grammatical applesauce? By GAWD… that’s Jay Sekulow’s music!
Obviously, this all comes back to Jay Sekulow. He’s Brainy Smurf after Brainy already landed on his head 20-30 times too many. Reports suggest that he’s the one who wrote the questions that ended up in the Times, and theoretically the mastermind behind the leak, intended to suggest that Mueller has overstepped his mandate (which some of us suspected all along). From the Washington Post:
The president and several advisers now plan to point to the list as evidence that Mueller has strayed beyond his mandate and is overreaching, they said.
“He wants to hammer that,” according to a person who spoke to Trump on Monday.
“Mueller is in Kenny Starr territory now,” said another Trump adviser, referring to how the controversial independent counsel investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s real estate deals in Arkansas ended up examining the president’s lies about his sexual relationship with a White House intern.
Funny you should throw Starr under the bus like that, because Kenny “Go Bears” Starr is actually one of the very few “serious” legal analysts who actually buys this tripe about Mueller exceeding his mandate. Watching Starr take to the cable news circuit and bash himself will actually be appointment television for the next week. One more sad chapter for him — becoming the Republican’s definition of a bad lawyer.
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Joe Patrice is an editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news.
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