Lead Trump Attorney John Dowd Resigns From President’s Legal Team
There goes another one.
New York Times received confirmation that John Dowd, Donald Trump‘s personal lawyer, has resigned from his position at the head of the president’s legal team. The early indications suggest that Dowd had grown frustrated with the president for ignoring his advice in terms of how to legally handle Robert Mueller‘s special investigation.
Jay Sekulow, one of Trump’s other lawyers and a possible replacement for Dowd, offered this statement on the departure:
“John Dowd is a friend and has been a valuable member of our legal team. We will continue our ongoing representation of the President and our cooperation with the Office of Special Counsel.” – Jay Sekulow, Counsel to the President tells @kwelkernbc
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) March 22, 2018
Dowd himself had this to say:
JUST IN: John Dowd, Pres. Trump’s lead attorney for special counsel investigation, has resigned. “I love the President and wish him well,” he tells @ABC.
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 22, 2018
Over the past weekend, Dowd caused something of an uproar when he called for the special counsel investigating the Trump campaign’s Russia ties to be shut down. Dowd later claimed he wasn’t speaking on Trump’s behalf when he made those remarks, though the president has attacked the Mueller investigation multiple times since then.
Dowd’s departure comes after several administrative officials took their leave in the last few weeks, not the least of which were Rex Tillerson and Gary Cohn. However, Trump’s legal team also had a recent expansion with the hiring of Joseph diGenova, a conservative legal advocate known to spread conspiracy theories that the FBI and DOJ are trying to undermine Trump by framing him for a crime.
Ironically, Trump bashed NYT recently for reporting that he was dissatisfied with his legal team and was likely to make changes to it.
The Failing New York Times purposely wrote a false story stating that I am unhappy with my legal team on the Russia case and am going to add another lawyer to help out. Wrong. I am VERY happy with my lawyers, John Dowd, Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow. They are doing a great job and…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2018
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