Dec 04, 2017 · Trump's lawyer says he wrote the president's tweet about Flynn's dismissal. John Dowd told ABC News he wrote the tweet about Flynn's firing -- not Trump.
Dec 04, 2017 · View 2 more images. (Newser) – President Trump's personal lawyer is claiming that he, not Trump, was the author of a legally dubious tweet sent from Trump's account Saturday. "I had to fire ...
“I’m the lawyer,” Jay Sekulow, an attorney on Trump’s outside legal team, told “Fox & Friends” on Monday. “I don’t tell him what to write or not what to write.” Sekulow spent part of his weekend trying to explain the president’s tweeted assertion that he is being investigated in the federal probe into Russia’s interference into the 2016 presidential election.
Dec 03, 2017 · Turns out the ill-advised tweet, according to the White House (as was reported by The Washington Post, CNN and others), wasn't actually written by President Trump but by his personal lawyer John Dowd.
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That suggests Trump knew Flynn was guilty of a crime when he allegedly asked former FBI Director James Comey to halt his investigation of the former national security adviser the day after his firing, meaning the request could have been obstruction of justice. The lawyer, John Dowd, tells NBC News that the "sloppy" tweet was his work.
He says he had never written a Trump tweet before, and he is "sorry he misled people.". Sally Yates. Dowd tells NBC that the tweet referred to statements made by then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates when she visited the White House in late January.
He says Yates told White House Counsel Don McGahn that Flynn had given FBI agents and Vice President Mike Pence the same story. "All the president knew was that the department was not accusing him of lying," he says. "More Fake News.". Trump referenced the uproar in one of many tweets over the weekend about the FBI and the Russia probe.
"If President Trump sends it, then Trump has adopted it. It’s his statement," Cohen says. "The bottom line is the tweet is still bad for Trump —it makes things worse for him.".
It does matter if Trump had any hand in sending the tweet, but it might also not matter — especially since Trump has not come out and denied the tweet.
If Trump's lawyer is lying, Mueller may well be able to find out. There's already rampant speculation that the special prosecutor will subpoena Dowd to get to the bottom of the tweet.
It's hard to know what exactly is on Trump's mind at any particular moment, but it looked clear on Monday morning that the president has been worried about the obstruction argument.
Scavino, in his race against no one and for no real reason, fell into the same trap. In picking up one particularly gnarly storm video, the White House director of social media and assistant to the president did a fake news of his own. It wasn't Miami International Airport, nor was it even from that same week.
Donald Trump does not know how to thread his tweets. He certainly seems to understand that it's a thing people do, since at some point over the last year, he started using ellipses to indicate that he wasn't quite done yet.