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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed May 2, 2018, 12:44 PM May 2018

Trump to Add Clinton Impeachment Lawyer Emmet Flood to Replace Ty Cobb

Source: The New York Times


By MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDTMAY 2, 2018

WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to hire Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing with the special counsel investigation, who is retiring, according to two people briefed on the matter.

In a phone interview, Mr. Cobb said he informed the president weeks ago that he wanted to retire. He said he planned to stay at the White House, likely through the end of the month, to help Mr. Flood transition into the new job.

“It has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House,” he said. “I wish everybody well moving forward.”

Mr. Flood is expected to take a more adversarial approach to the investigation than Mr. Cobb, who had pushed Mr. Trump to strike a cooperative tone. Mr. Flood initially spoke with the White House last summer about working for the president, but the talks ultimately fell apart because Mr. Flood did not want to deal with Mr. Trump’s longtime New York lawyer, Marc E. Kasowitz, who was overseeing the president’s dealings with the special counsel at the time.



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/us/politics/emmet-flood-ty-cobb-white-house-lawyer-special-counsel.html?smid=pl-share



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Pluvious

(4,276 posts)
15. Next thing we'll hear, Lying Donnie will plead the fifth
Wed May 2, 2018, 04:33 PM
May 2018

Or just answer everything with, I've got the World's greatest memory, but I don't recall.

MattP

(3,304 posts)
2. You can only be as good as your client sometimes
Wed May 2, 2018, 12:47 PM
May 2018

Clinton was a brilliant lawyer and he got impeached how do they think his attorneys did such a great job

procon

(15,805 posts)
3. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock... if Trump is as innocent as he claims, why does
Wed May 2, 2018, 12:49 PM
May 2018

he need lawyers with impeachment experience?

His lies are coming home to roost.

Dorn

(519 posts)
9. The reverse Midas effect strikes again
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:08 PM
May 2018

We need a graphic of the number of retirements, firings, and general get out of dodge people along side of DTs lies.

RockRaven

(14,782 posts)
11. Note that even when he gets a high profile lawyer
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:15 PM
May 2018

they take a job in the White House Counsel's office, and not that of Trump's personal lawyer.

For one thing, this ensures they get paid.

DAMANgoldberg

(1,278 posts)
12. The jokes write themselves...
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:33 PM
May 2018

for any person with extended knowledge of Baseball. A Flood replacing Ty Cobb? You can't make this stuff up.

onenote

(42,373 posts)
13. While Flood was part of the Clinton impeament legal team, he's solidly republican
Wed May 2, 2018, 01:50 PM
May 2018

He worked in the Bush II White House. He defended Dick Cheney when he was sued by Valerie Plame. He has donated exclusively to repubs, including Trump, Bush, Pompeo (several times), Gillespie, etc. He clerked for Scalia.

I doubt he's being hired because of his expertise in impeachment matters. He has experience with respect to executive privilege claims among other things.

Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
16. Unfortunately, Flood's a truly great lawyer.
Wed May 2, 2018, 04:49 PM
May 2018

Still, as someone noted, he isn’t going to tRump’s personal lawyer.

 

Izzy Blue

(282 posts)
17. The good news may be that Mueller may have recently put the fear of god into Trump.
Wed May 2, 2018, 05:51 PM
May 2018

"Flood's firm represented Hillary Clinton during her email scandal, which was considered to be one of the reasons that he had turned down a White House job earlier this year, per Reuters"

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