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The Note: Trump’s wild legal ride - ABC News

posted onMay 6, 2018
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Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump has grown used to smashing norms and conventions — and Washington and the world have adjusted, or not, accordingly. But his biggest clash may still be ahead of him. The chaos inside the president’s legal team, the wild ride Rudy Giuliani is already leading it on, and the conflicting signals and veiled threats flowing via tweets and congressional rumblings — it all points to a more confrontational White House stance in the Robert Mueller probe. Just hours before the announcement that Ty Cobb would be leaving the White House legal team, Cobb said on ABC’s “Powerhouse Politics” podcast that Mueller is “doing what he was assigned to do.” He added that he had “no doubt” that the leak of Mueller’s potential questions for Trump did not come from Mueller’s team. Now Cobb exits, while Giuliani — who recently called it a “disgrace” that the Mueller probe hasn’t already concluded, and dropped a new bomb in the Stormy Daniels matter Wednesday night — is trying to negotiate potential presidential cooperation. Cobb will be replaced by Emmet Flood, a former Clinton impeachment lawyer whom the White House stated will “represent the president and the administration against the Russia witch hunt.” Legal bedrocks and constitutional principles could be in play soon around attempts to obtain testimony from the president. And Trump may just be getting started: “At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers gra... Link to the full article to read more

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