Trump Tells His Lawyers: Stay for the Coming Legal Hellscape
The president has made private admissions that federal investigations bedeviling his first term in office will be haunting him for possibly years to come.
Asawin Suebsaeng, Erin Banco
02.25.19 4:41 AM ET
Late last year, over the course of three separate conversations, Donald Trump signaled to those in his inner circle that even he knew Special Counsel Robert Mueller finishing his investigation would be a new beginning, not a dramatic end, for Trumpworlds eclectic legal hellscape.
The president made clear to his outside legal team, which includes Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, that he didnt want his lawyers going anywhereeven after the Mueller probe ends. The conversations served as a private admission that federal investigations bedeviling his first term in office will be haunting him for possibly years to come.
The president broached the topic of keeping his team together starting late last year, according to two sources familiar with the exchanges, by discussing other legal woes he might face after the Special Counsels Office submits its report to the Department of Justice.
Trumps focus at the time? The Southern District of New York. The jurisdiction, also known as SDNY, is currently looking into matters involving the president. Those cases have long been considered by Trumps close allies as a potentially far graver threat than the Mueller investigation.
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