Key Trump attorney departs legal team

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Washington CNN — Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for Donald Trump who played a key role in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and once testified before the grand jury, is leaving the former president’s legal team, two sources familiar with the exit tell CNN.

Parlatore’s departure became official Tuesday, though it had been rumored for several weeks among the former president’s inner circle. The high-profile departure comes as special counsel Jack Smith appears to be in the final stretch of investigations into the possible mishandling of classified documents and efforts to obstruct the 2020 election.

“It’s been an incredible honor to serve and work through interesting legal issues. My departure was a personal choice and does not reflect upon the case, as I believe strongly the (Justice Department) team is engaging in misconduct to pursue an investigation of conduct that is not criminal,” Parlatore said in a statement to CNN.

Parlatore spoke with Trump regarding his exit as well. Parlatore’s exit is notable given he was the attorney who organized searches for additional classified documents last year at Trump Tower, Trump’s properties in Bedminster, Mar-a-Lago, an office in Palm Beach and a Florida storage unit.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/17/politics/timothy-parlatore-trump-legal-team/index.html

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Washington CNN — Timothy Parlatore, an attorney for Donald Trump who played a key role in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and once testified before the grand jury, is leaving the former president’s legal team, two sources familiar with the exit tell CNN.

Parlatore’s departure became official Tuesday, though it had been rumored for several weeks among the former president’s inner circle. The high-profile departure comes as special counsel Jack Smith appears to be in the final stretch of investigations into the possible mishandling of classified documents and efforts to obstruct the 2020 election.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

[Trenzalore]

1. Wonder if he got paid

[no_hypocrisy]

3. My first thought as well.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Just updated the OP

and it's a doozy.

[3Hotdogs]

26. I'm sure he was paid. Now-adays, anybody who can read the papers and works for Gropenfuhrer,

knows to get paid before lifting a pen, hammer, turning on a keyboard, car engine, -- can't think of much else.


Oh, and be sure to count your fingers after shaking hands with him.

[zuul]

2. Maybe he's a target now and he needs his own attorney.

MAGA = making attorneys get attorneys

ETTD = everything t**mp touches dies

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Yup

he is heading for the exit thanks to Jack Smith's MAGA strategy.

[The Jungle 1]

6. Like rats fleeing a sinking ship.

I fell into a burning ring of fire
Went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire Johnny Cash

[Botany]

7. Timothy Parlatore knows that Trump broke the law and doesn't want to "go down with the ship."

"And once testified before the grand jury" which no doubt covered the stolen documents @ Merde a Logo.

&t=6s

[AZ8theist]

19. It's "Merde LARDO"

sheesh...get it right!!

[speak easy]

8. "It's been an incredible honor to serve" Mr.Pond Scum himself.

sure has

[Mike Nelson]

9. Hmm...

... "...as I believe strongly the (Justice Department) team is engaging in misconduct to pursue an investigation of conduct that is not criminal..." is too much information. He may be involved in criminal conduct connected to the case.

[IronLionZion]

10. MAGA Make Attorneys Get Attorneys

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Does everyone who works for the traitor have to praise him efflusively?

“It’s been an incredible honor to serve and work through interesting legal issues."

Sounds just like the captive cabinet meeting where Pence and just about everyone else had to sound like they were in the presence of Stalin and Beria.

[truthisfreedom]

13. Famous curse: "May you live in interesting times."

[Permanut]

20. Yes,..

but not sure the groveling and shoe kissing is mandatory.

[bluestarone]

12. "incredible honor to serve?"

WTF? Do these CRAZIES get CULT tRUMP Blood transfusions or what? Can't wait for them to ALL get their due!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Mar-a-Lago - where men enter as lawyers and emerge as witnesses.

Link to tweet

[BumRushDaShow]

16. That doesn't even count Christina Bobb

who was the first one who "signed off on" certifying everything had been handed over, leading to an avalanche of obstruction.

And yup, she was subject to Smith's MAGAing!

[Novara]

29. heh

[Aristus]

15. Nursing a paralyzing hangover, and finally sobering up, Parlatore exclaimed:

"I agreed to represent WHOM?!?..."

[FSogol]

17. "It's been an incredible honor to serve plus I don't want to go to prison for that shithead,"

he added.

[riversedge]

18. I am thinking this might Delay the case once again. ?? More delays.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Trump's attorney could have had 'conflict of interest' in documents case: Former prosecutor

The fact that this attorney has testified before the grand jury may mean that he has a conflict with TFG

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-attorney/

"Barbara, I'm old enough to remember when it was a bombshell when Don McGahn was found to have spent 30 hours with Robert Mueller sharing not only his notes but his own chief of staff, sharing everything, turning the West Wing inside out for Robert Mueller," said Wallace. "After that it was pretty sensational when Eric Herschmann became one of the most riveting witnesses in the congressional probe into January 6th, and there was a lot of coverage and speculation about whether Pat Cipollone would or would not testify before the 1/6 Select Committee."

"We know there have been so many dominos fall, it doesn't register as a huge deal when lawyers become witnesses against Donald Trump, but it is interesting to watch the movements," Wallace continued. "This today is someone who became a witness and is now quitting. What could be the reasons or explanations for that, Barb?"

"Well, there could be a number of reasons," said McQuade. "It could simply be, you know, people get worn down working for Donald Trump. That would certainly be understandable. But at least one reason might be that a conflict of interest has arisen."

"Someone can't represent a person if they are also a witness against that person," said McQuade. "So it could be quite possibly that he has been cooperating or testifying even if uncooperatively with the Justice Department in response to a subpoena about the movement of those documents. He himself ordered a search for those documents, so he certainly has information that the Justice Department would be interested in. So that would be one important reason that he might be stepping away from his representation of Donald Trump, because he is a witness against him."

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Who was it? Corcoran who had a conflict

through the Stormy Daniels case (she had consulted with him and then he later represented 45).

[LetMyPeopleVote]

23. The court ruled that Corcoran/TFG conversations were not protected by atty/client privilege

You do not see the crime fraud exception to the attorney client privilege used much outside organized crime cases

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Well we know

he is a prime RICO candidate, so...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. TFG starts sweating bullets as one of his attorneys jumps ship -- ditching Trump's legal team.

Link to tweet

BREAKING: Donald Trump starts sweating bullets as one of his attorneys who was at the center of the scandalous Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation jumps ship — ditching Trump’s legal team.

The departure has set off speculation that the attorney, Timothy Parlatore, may choose to cooperate with investigators. Parlatore organized the “searches” for classified documents at Trump’s properties. He has already testified before a grand jury.

Parlatore attempted to downplay the departure, spoke to Trump about it, and called his time working for the crooked ex-president “an incredible honor” during which he helped “work through interesting legal issues.”

He insisted that jumping ship was a “personal choice” and tepidly accused the Justice Department of “misconduct.”

Retweet to urge Parlatore to cooperate with Special Counsel Jack Smith!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. This lawyer was one of the authors of the stupid letter sent to the House Intelligence Committee

Remember the idiotic letter that TFG's attorney sent to the House Intelligence Committee. In that letter, TFG's attorneys claimed that all of the classified documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago by accident due to a hurried job of packing. TFG just contradicted that letter at the CNN townhall when TFG admitted that he took the documents and had the right to take these documents.

One of the authors of that letter is Parlatore which explains why he resigned. Here is a description of some of the stupid claims made in that letter. This is a very stupid move by TFG. Congress has no power to block the DOJ/Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation. This filing contains admissions that Jack Smith will be able to use against TFG. I hope that this is a stunt that TFG demanded because

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/team-trump-begs-congress-derail-dojs-classified-docs-probe-rcna81760?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=644ab1252d3f1f00015640bd&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

It was against this backdrop that the former president sent a remarkable new appeal to Capitol Hill yesterday. The New York Times reported:

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump asked lawmakers on Wednesday to place the intelligence community in charge of assessing Mr. Trump’s handling of the classified documents found in his possession after leaving office, saying Congress should strip the Justice Department of authority to run the investigation.

If this sounds outlandish, that’s because it is. In a 10-page letter to the House Intelligence Committee, Trump’s lawyers — in all seriousness — argued that they believe a “legislative solution” by Congress is “required” to prevent federal prosecutors from pursuing the case further.

The letter proposed that the Justice Department “should be ordered to stand down.”.....

University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. Attorney and an MSNBC legal analyst, added this morning, “Surely, they know this request is a non-starter that would violate separation of powers. This looks more like a PR move on the eve of indictment.”

In this letter, TFG's attorney admits that TFG has classified documents "that the White House staff simply swept all documents from the President’s desk and other areas into boxes."

Link to tweet

In an absolutely BONEHEAD move, Trump’s attorneys just admitted Trump may have taken classified briefings of phone calls with foreign leaders.

This is absolutely wild.

In a letter to the GOP chair of the House Intelligence Committee, two of Donald Trump’s defense lawyers argue that the fact Trump may have these classified briefings “indicates that the White House staff simply swept all documents from the President’s desk and other areas into boxes.”

In defending Trump…they may have just made it even worse for him.

Trump’s attorneys wrote the letter to urge Congress to tell the Justice Department to “stand down.”

TFG gutted the authors of this letter which is why this attorney resigned

[BumRushDaShow]

28. In a broad sense

all of this magnifies the reason why only electing someone to the Presidency who has had experience in some type of government workplace (as an employee including military service) and/or elective office (whether municipal, county, state, or federal), is paramount, even with it not being a Constitutional requirement.

There are certain "rules" (whether they are followed or not) and expectations that are unique for government employees that a Presidential candidate would have been exposed to, and having that exposure would go a long way towards preventing what was a breathtakingly aberrant ethics disaster that marked the previous administration.

The fact that the VP for that administration (regardless of his often controversial policy focus) was such an employee (in Congress and then as governor), illustrates how his knowledge of government seemed to guide his decisions and posture during the insurrection.

[LudwigPastorius]

31. Nah...

You could have had the rules tattooed on Trump's corneas when he came down the escalator, and he still wouldn't have followed them.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. Well that was my point

Those who work in civil servant positions and/or run for office and stay learn the rules of the road, and if they don't like them, they leave (or are removed) fairly early in their careers.

45 was one who would have never been the type to work in public/civil service and only used the position as a means for high-level grifting (which is why he's the first in this country's history to not only be impeached twice, but is facing many criminal charges).

[Kennah]

30. Maybe he's taking a bath