Coupla legal beagles chimed in this weekend on Boy Trumpie.
Alberto Gonzales, Bush43 A.G., gave a rare (AlGon don't talk so good.) interview, excerpts of which I had to read a coupla times to understand. AlGon said the Boy's constant criticism of A.G. Jeff Sessions without firing JeffSess makes Trumpie look "weak." After I re-read that a coupla times I understood AlGo's pernt. I don't know, I never took the Boy's threats as sign of weakness but as weathervane and the wind is blowing from the East for JayEss.
And The Dershowitz who is a recklessly fired projectile when a microphone is in his range opined that the Boy has more to fear from the SDNY than from the Special Counsel. No constitutional protections there and AlDer sees constitutional protections out the ass on the Mueller probe. But SDNY is a federal agency. Could the Boy not fire the U.S. Attorney there and get rid of his nettlesome gumshoes who are all in Conehead's shit and have granted immunity to Boy Trump's Mob Treasurer Allen Weisselberg? Could he not pardon Conehead and Weisselberg? I think he could.
AlDer has four points of light for the Boy:
"Look, my advice to the president — I never gave it to him privately because I’m not his lawyer, but on television — is:
(1) Don’t fire,
(2) don’t pardon,
(3) don’t tweet and
(4) don’t testify.
As codicil to (4) Witz said this:
(4a) "it would be good for the American public if President Trump sat down and said everything he knows, but it wouldn’t be good for President Trump. And that’s why his lawyers are so strongly recommending against it.”
Yes, it would be good for Boy Trump; no it would not be good for the country and this Trump lawyer manque does not owe that advice to a non-client but insists on giving it anyway when one of those attractive nuisances, the microphone, is nearby which is why AlDer don't get invited to dinner no more on the Vineyard.
And if he listened to those four things, he’d be in less trouble than he is today,”
Oh, AlDer is right on the money there but the Boy has already fired Comey and Lindsey Graham (And one or two others? I forget.) has pretty much given Trumpie the green light to whack JayEss. He seems to be on the brink of doing that but he has been on that ledge before and stepped back.
Don't tweet is strawman advice. Boys can't help themselves and that horse is out of the barn and has cleared the nearest ridge. He's gone.
Don't testify is sound advice but it is not AlDer's advice to give but he keeps doing it and I don't think Trump will. I think he grudgingly knows that his lying is congenital, he can do nothing about it and if he does it in a formal Q and A with Mueller he is a very foolish Boy indeed. Witz is correct about the codicil, too. Trump's lawyers don't represent the American people, they represent the Boy "president" and it is good lawyering to recommend against sending their execrable client into Muellerton only to have him come out with the inevitable perjury article of impeachment.
