MSNBC Feed - Trump's WH lawyer hires own lawyer for Russia probe

[Xipe Totec]

I read that and nearly tripped on the area rug laughing.

[gratuitous]

1. Oooh, another leak for AG Sessions!

Go get 'em, Inspector Clouseau.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Funniest line in cinema history, or one of them

[hlthe2b]

2. Exponential Lawyer Employment Program...

At least one job sector is happy, I suppose

[longship]

4. Recursive lawyering up.

Recursive, not exponential. It's lawyers, all the way down.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Lawyers upon lawyers. It's lawyers all the way down.

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down."

(from A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking)

In Trump's White House it's lawyers instead of turtles, all the way down.

[longship]

5. Cynical minds think alike.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. GMTA.

The best thing is there's no attorney-client privilege as between McGahn and SCROTUS because McGahn isn't Orange Foolius' personal lawyer - just like John Dean wrt Nixon.

[virtualobserver]

7. that is what Nixon's WH counsel, John Dean did, just as he began to cooperate with investigators

not a good sign for Team Trump.

[fierywoman]

9. Ooooooooooooo!!!! I love knowing this -- thanks!