Trump lawyers spill beans, thanks to terrible choice of restaurant next door to the New York Times

[L. Coyote]

You can't make this shit up, and no one would believe this in a novel! Trump's idiots! "I only hire the best people."

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It is every Washington reporter’s dream to sit down at a restaurant, overhear secret stuff and get a scoop. It rarely happens. Still, everyone in town important enough to have secrets worth keeping knows that secrets are not safe on the Acela train and in Washington restaurants. This is especially true in eateries next door to a major newspaper.

Yes, Ty Cobb and John Dowd, lawyers for President Trump, we’re talking to you. But it’s too late now. Dowd represents Trump but does not work at the White House. Cobb is a White House employee who is instantly recognizable to many because of his handlebar mustache. Together, they went for what appears to have been a working lunch at BLT Steak, 1625 I St. NW in Washington. It’s close to the White House and very convenient. It’s also next door to 1627 I St. NW, which happens to house the Washington bureau of the New York Times.

Sitting at the next table, according to the Times, was Kenneth Vogel, one of Washington’s most skillful investigative reporters. Vogel is former reporter for Politico, which is based in Virginia, who arrived at the Times just in time for the Russia investigation and, as it turned out, just in time for lunch.

Vogel overheard the lawyers talking about White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II and Jared Kushner ................

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[Eugene]

1. I was expecting this to be Borowitz.

This may be a stretch but are the Trumpians organized well enough to mount a disinformation op? Even they can't be this incompetent, can they?

[Scarsdale]

11. Well, look at their boss.

Incompetence is his middle name along with several others. Donald J. (Jackass) tRump. Donnie Two Scoops.

[C Moon]

23. Good point

[bitterross]

26. That is my concern too. Is this an intentional "leak?" /nt

[underpants]

2. Don't they know how to use the proper safeguards and technology

[L. Coyote]

5. LOL. They may still be living in the 50s.

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The certainly are living in a bubble.

[mountain grammy]

9. Glad you found that.. it actually crossed my mind as I read this OP.

[Brother Buzz]

16. They were in the field and should have used the portable cone of silence

[underpants]

17. Yes

Of course. What were these guys THINKING?!?!

[C Moon]

24. I saw that clip recently. I think the chief was unable to get that off after they spoke.

[Brother Buzz]

31. Professor Parker was still working out the bugs

And speaking of bugs, Professor Parker invented the electronic-fly listening device, and a bunch of other cool gadgets.

[L. Coyote]

34. They need Super Secret Phone Conversation Muzzles and smartphone head sets.

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Of course, the muzzles make eating lunch a bit more challenging.

[Kaleva]

38. A banned torture device when one has onion and coffee breath.

[flygal]

27. LOL but Smart was good guy. We're dealing with evil doofuses now.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

36. LOMFL!

Damn, that gave me a good laugh!

[bobbieinok]

3. Can they really be that stupid?

Maybe they're planting false/misleading info?

Maybe they're Laurel and Hardy clones. (German name for the two is 'Dick und Doof'--thick/fat and stupid/dumb.)

[L. Coyote]

6. Yes. Trump only hires people willing to work for him, and this is it!

The best of the best of the very, very few willing idiots.

[trof]

39. Cjeck out Jimmy Breslin's "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight"

Lots of similarities to the Donny Two-Scoops gang.

[dalton99a]

4. Priceless

[gratuitous]

7. White House personnel are worried about each other wearing wires?

No need for that. What do you want to know? Just listen, these dopes will tell you.

[NightWatcher]

8. I'd proceed with caution if I were the journalists. This sounds like misdirection

If I wanted to disseminate bad info I'd do it outside of a restaurant next door to the Times and loudly at that.

[mountain grammy]

10. Worth noting, but remember, they are the bottom of the barrel.

Doubtful there's much deep thought going on here.

[DinahMoeHum]

28. None of the big boys in law want to defend him. . .

. . .and it's showing.

[Sunlei]

12. I think they wanted to be "overheard" & reported on to misdirect evidence Mueller will -never- see.

not the "two docs locked in a safe" they loudly spoke about. That's a bunch of bullshit they wanted heard.

[L. Coyote]

13. How would a misdirection to two docs make any difference in a massive investigation?

And how does an antic that puts a media spotlight on #TrumpRussia fit into distracting from #TrumpRussia?

It makes no sense to think this is a misdirection because it simply won't work. These guys did not know who was at the next table is far more reasonable. Keep in mind who these people are:

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[flibbitygiblets]

15. I'ma have to agree with Coyote on this one. These folks are not known for their strategery

and the only thing I can think of that this would accomplish would be to waste some time looking for something that doesn't exist. Mueller has a lot of resources, so that accomplishes nothing. My guess is these people are as stupid and arrogant as their client.

[C Moon]

25. I believe that as well.

[oppressedproletarian]

14. Hahahahaha! Morons! nt

[WinkyDink]

18. IMO, stupidity, not "misdirection." For the latter, the doofuses would need to recognize the

reporter AND discuss him before sitting down; and in that convo, they'd need to agree on where to sit and what to say (topics, limitations, out-of-bounds, etc.).

Trump people just aren't that clever.

[ehrnst]

19. Who needs a wire with these guys blabbing? (nt)

[Enoki33]

20. Doubt very much this is misdirection. Why draw attention to

something most people already suspect? The opposite would be logical.

[LuckyLib]

21. The stupid is simply amazing! Kelly must be beside himself at the morans in this WH.

[Botany]

22. ? for any DU lawyers

Because they were out in the open is not their talk still protected?

[get the red out]

29. Everybody has to eat!

LOL

[DinahMoeHum]

30. As Aaron Blake of the WaPo has said before. . .

. . .being Trump's lawyer may be the second-worst job in Washington — behind being his spokesman.

[L. Coyote]

33. Trump's attorney has to be the worst job in Washington.

A spokesperson can lie without legal consequences. Try doing that to a judge and watch what happens.

[Xolodno]

32. Heh...guess Mueller is going to ask for some documents...

...locked in a safe. Whoops.

And wow...the paranoia that must be in the White House. They must all think at minimum something very illegal happened and don't want to be a bystander who gets pulled down with the ship.

They are probably measuring their words constantly...which means they aren't effectively communicating either. No wonder this administration is constantly bumbling. Not only does the left and right hands not know what each other is doing...they don't want each other to know.

[DFW]

42. Too bad for their next lunch date

No more nice sidewalk cafés--next time, they'll have to meet for lunch in Deep Throat's garage.

If one orders tea, "follow the honey!&quot

[Javaman]

35. "I only hire the best people."...that I can manipulate. nt

[NastyRiffraff]

37. Tweedledee and Tweedledum

It may be misinformation but I'm betting on gross stupidity. In any case, no doubt Vogel will fact check it.

[TNNurse]

40. I am far from a public figure.

If I had a lawyer who did this....they would no longer represent me.

[DFW]

41. Nine years ago, Biden's staffers did this at a Virginia indoor pool at 7 in the morning

At the time, I caught hell on DU for about 8 hours until Obama announced that what I posted here had been right all along.

The day that soon-to-be-nominee Obama was to announce his VP pick, Biden had been notified already. He told his family and highest staff, but no one else. Two women from his office were getting in an early morning swim before going in to their office for the big announcement in the afternoon. The only other one at the pool at that hour happened to be my nephew. 18 at the time, small for his age and with his mother's strong Oriental features (my brother's wife is from Japan), he was alone there, and they assumed he was an immigrant kid who understood no English. Instead, he is a highly intelligent American who understood English perfectly (he speaks no Japanese). They were excitedly, and openly, discussing the pick of their boss, then-Senator Joe Biden, as Obama's VP.

I posted it on DU and got soundly trashed because I posted no link, and refused to say where I got my information from. After all, DU is no state secret, and why was I going to risk getting some of Biden's staffers in trouble, or even fired, for being so happy for their boss, they made a small (if somewhat insulting to my nephew) slip-up?

Of course, I got no apologies when the confirming announcement was made 8 hours later, but I did get one post encouraging me to say Nyahh Nyahh to me detractors (I didn't bother--Obama's announcement was satisfaction enough, heh heh).

[L. Coyote]

43. Excellente. Thanks.

Great story, one for the history book. Be sure to preserve that page from DU. Do you have the link still?

[DFW]

44. No, I almost never save links to my DU pages from ancient history

At the time, it didn't seem so important to me, and I knew I could never reveal the details until, at the very earliest, after Obama/Biden had been inaugurated for the second time. I don't know who the women were, and for all I knew, they might still have been working for him.

[L. Coyote]

46. Could it be...Joe Biden?

Was this the OP?

https://www.google.com/search?lr=&safe=images&hl=en&as_qdr=all&biw=2073&bih=1437&q=DFW+%22Joe+Biden%22+Obama+2008+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com&oq=DFW+%22Joe+Biden%22+Obama+2008+site%3Ademocraticunderground.com&gs_l=psy-ab.12...9591.15160.0.17627.6.6.0.0.0.0.76.386.6.6.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.RbEqiUUDRCY

[DFW]

47. Unfortunately, I still don't know

I tried the link and got a message saying some links could not be accessed from the country I'm in, which at the moment happens to be Austria (no Wienerschnitzel comments allowed).

[Warren DeMontague]

45. ...are you sure that isn't Wilfred Brimley?

[L. Coyote]

48. Trump's lawyers don't fall far from the treethey're perfectly incompetent

Trump's lawyers don't fall far from the tree—they're perfectly incompetent
By Kerry Eleveld --- Sep 18, 2017

If you marveled over Donald Trump's attorneys Ty Cobb and John Dowd—two supposed Washington veterans—discussing internal legal rifts in the West Wing within ear shot of a New York Times reporter, it's a good time to recap just how incompetent Trump's bunch of misfits have repeatedly proven to be. ..........

...... Apparently, Cobb's learned nothing from The Americans. Likewise, the guy Cobb was complaining about, White House counsel Don McGahn, hasn't figured out he's working among colleagues who leak like pricked helium balloons. ................

Wow, couldn't have seen that coming. But then again, as the Washington Post's Aaron Blake notes, Trump's attorneys haven’t proven to be the sharpest knives in the drawer. Here's excerpts of a list Blake assembled detailing the indiscretions of Trump's legal lackeys. ..........

Cohen, by the way, is scheduled to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday.

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