(05-21-2018 02:18 PM)shere khan Wrote:  https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/na...story.html

Now that John Dowd is out as President Trump’s lead lawyer in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, could former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz be taking his place?

The answer, according to Dershowitz, is an emphatic no.

more valuable advocating on the small screen than working behind the scenes since impeachment is a political indictment ...

COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION

(05-21-2018 02:28 PM)green Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 02:18 PM)shere khan Wrote:  https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/na...story.html

Now that John Dowd is out as President Trump’s lead lawyer in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, could former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz be taking his place?

The answer, according to Dershowitz, is an emphatic no.

more valuable advocating on the small screen than working behind the scenes since impeachment is a political indictment ...

COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION

Dersh is just a real liberal. He's not pro Trump, he's anti Marxist, statist, scum.

(05-21-2018 02:41 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Dersh is just a real liberal. He's not pro Trump, he's anti Marxist, statist, scum.

all the more reason ...

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(05-21-2018 01:44 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:38 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:32 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 08:11 AM)Kronke Wrote:  

Quote:Flush with 16 prosecutors, including a former lawyer for the Clinton Foundation, and an undisclosed budget, the Mueller investigation has been a scorched-earth effort to investigate the entirety of the Trump campaign, Trump business dealings, the entire administration and now, if it was not Russia, maybe it’s some other country.
The president’s earlier legal team was naive in believing that, when Mueller found nothing, he would just end it. Instead, the less investigators found, the more determined and expansive they became.

I think one of Trump's big mistakes was trusting the legal team that had apparently represented him well as a real estate developer were up to the task of dealing with Washington insiders. If I were him, I'd hire Alan Dershowitz tomorrow. The biggest waste of money in the world is paying for the second-best lawyer in the room.

I think Dershowitz said he wouldn't represent Trump. Dersh is a classic liberal and I don't think he likes Trump but hates government corruption worse. I actually side with real liberals on many issues. The current Democrat party is full of Marxist prog filth and a shadow of its former self.
I'm glad there are a few like dersh left. No pun intended.

Hadn't heard that Dershowitz said that. If he refused, there are others. The big problem is that you need one or two members of the club on your team. Trump reminds me of Al Czervik.

When this is all over...there's gonna be a new club. Politics in America will be fundamentally changed. I think people with lifetime ties to DC power will be going to prison. Trumps a bulldog. Not a person you want as an enemy.

(05-21-2018 03:59 PM)Old Blue Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:44 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:38 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:32 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 08:11 AM)Kronke Wrote:  

I think one of Trump's big mistakes was trusting the legal team that had apparently represented him well as a real estate developer were up to the task of dealing with Washington insiders. If I were him, I'd hire Alan Dershowitz tomorrow. The biggest waste of money in the world is paying for the second-best lawyer in the room.

I think Dershowitz said he wouldn't represent Trump. Dersh is a classic liberal and I don't think he likes Trump but hates government corruption worse. I actually side with real liberals on many issues. The current Democrat party is full of Marxist prog filth and a shadow of its former self.
I'm glad there are a few like dersh left. No pun intended.

Hadn't heard that Dershowitz said that. If he refused, there are others. The big problem is that you need one or two members of the club on your team. Trump reminds me of Al Czervik.

When this is all over...there's gonna be a new club. Politics in America will be fundamentally changed. I think people with lifetime ties to DC power will be going to prison. Trumps a bulldog. Not a person you want as an enemy.

He’s a counter-puncher. They should have just accepted the loss, and let him be President. Now they’ll learn the hard way.

(05-21-2018 03:59 PM)Old Blue Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:44 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:38 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:32 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 08:11 AM)Kronke Wrote:  

I think one of Trump's big mistakes was trusting the legal team that had apparently represented him well as a real estate developer were up to the task of dealing with Washington insiders. If I were him, I'd hire Alan Dershowitz tomorrow. The biggest waste of money in the world is paying for the second-best lawyer in the room.

I think Dershowitz said he wouldn't represent Trump. Dersh is a classic liberal and I don't think he likes Trump but hates government corruption worse. I actually side with real liberals on many issues. The current Democrat party is full of Marxist prog filth and a shadow of its former self.
I'm glad there are a few like dersh left. No pun intended.

Hadn't heard that Dershowitz said that. If he refused, there are others. The big problem is that you need one or two members of the club on your team. Trump reminds me of Al Czervik.

When this is all over...there's gonna be a new club. Politics in America will be fundamentally changed. I think people with lifetime ties to DC power will be going to prison. Trumps a bulldog. Not a person you want as an enemy.

I've said that from day 1.......ol' boy has changed the game.....and the dippos don't have a fk'n clue how to combat it.....

#happydays

(05-22-2018 02:49 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 03:59 PM)Old Blue Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:44 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:38 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:32 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I think one of Trump's big mistakes was trusting the legal team that had apparently represented him well as a real estate developer were up to the task of dealing with Washington insiders. If I were him, I'd hire Alan Dershowitz tomorrow. The biggest waste of money in the world is paying for the second-best lawyer in the room.

I think Dershowitz said he wouldn't represent Trump. Dersh is a classic liberal and I don't think he likes Trump but hates government corruption worse. I actually side with real liberals on many issues. The current Democrat party is full of Marxist prog filth and a shadow of its former self.
I'm glad there are a few like dersh left. No pun intended.

Hadn't heard that Dershowitz said that. If he refused, there are others. The big problem is that you need one or two members of the club on your team. Trump reminds me of Al Czervik.

When this is all over...there's gonna be a new club. Politics in America will be fundamentally changed. I think people with lifetime ties to DC power will be going to prison. Trumps a bulldog. Not a person you want as an enemy.

I've said that from day 1.......ol' boy has changed the game.....and the dippos don't have a fk'n clue how to combat it.....

#happydays

I agree with that statement; however, it will be temporary and highly dependent upon who follows Trump. I'll be honest and state I am really not sure what we are seeing. On the surface it appears that he is a reform minded person whose goal is to transform gov't to something more in line with how it used to be - the fabled halcyon days of old? At times it appears that this is being driven by "Trump the idealist". Except I don't believe such a creature exists. I think "Trump the egoist" is who we have. That would square with the notion that Trump is not a reformer but a charismatic leader whose sole purpose is to make waves primarily to feed his ego. No doubt that a reformer and an egoist can be traveling partners if the end results are the same despite the motives being different.

In the end, I think Trump is like mankind trying to tame nature and gov't corruption and the "deep state" IS nature. Sooner or later - nature always wins. IMHO, there is no one waiting in the wings to continue governing in the way Trump is doing it now.

I guess we will see. Fortunately for us, it rarely matters a whole lot because the things that impact us the most are local issues. If a swamp critter takes over after Trump, and that swamp critter can maintain a booming economy, then none of it will matter. JMHO.

(05-22-2018 07:29 AM)miko33 Wrote:  

(05-22-2018 02:49 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  [b]ol' boy has changed the game[/b

I agree with that statement; however, it will be temporary and highly dependent upon who follows Trump. I'll be honest and state I am really not sure what we are seeing. On the surface it appears that he is a reform minded person whose goal is to transform gov't to something more in line with how it used to be - the fabled halcyon days of old? At times it appears that this is being driven by "Trump the idealist". Except I don't believe such a creature exists. I think "Trump the egoist" is who we have. That would square with the notion that Trump is not a reformer but a charismatic leader whose sole purpose is to make waves primarily to feed his ego. No doubt that a reformer and an egoist can be traveling partners if the end results are the same despite the motives being different.

In the end, I think Trump is like mankind trying to tame nature and gov't corruption and the "deep state" IS nature. Sooner or later - nature always wins. IMHO, there is no one waiting in the wings to continue governing in the way Trump is doing it now.

I guess we will see. Fortunately for us, it rarely matters a whole lot because the things that impact us the most are local issues. If a swamp critter takes over after Trump, and that swamp critter can maintain a booming economy, then none of it will matter. JMHO.

Solid post, one that makes a lot of good points. Permit me to offer two more:

=> It is true that mankind cannot change nature. But it is our plight to try. The gov't swamp is inevitable. But we at least can grab a few of the more pernicious critters from time to time and skin 'em: Lerner; Holder; Lynch; S. Rice; Power; Abedin; Mills; Samuelson; Combetta; Pagliano; Brennan; Clapper; Yates; McAulliffe; Ohr; J. Baker; Comey; McCabe; Strzok; L. Page; Halper. Those are just the gov't-swamp critters who have surfaced so far. It won't change nature; but it will at least tame it for the short term.

=> I'm not sure I agree about the local > national observation. That certainly used to be the be the case. When you'd hear of some sensational story, it was more often than not tempered by "Well, they're all just crazy out there." Not anymore. Maybe it's social media. Maybe it's our more mobile population. Maybe it's just my own false perception. But problems happening elsewhere -- school shootings, opioid addiction, racial clashes -- that I used to write off as specific to the locality, and thus not my immediate concern, now seems more real and pressing.

(05-22-2018 07:29 AM)miko33 Wrote:  

(05-22-2018 02:49 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 03:59 PM)Old Blue Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:44 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(05-21-2018 01:38 PM)shere khan Wrote:  I think Dershowitz said he wouldn't represent Trump. Dersh is a classic liberal and I don't think he likes Trump but hates government corruption worse. I actually side with real liberals on many issues. The current Democrat party is full of Marxist prog filth and a shadow of its former self.
I'm glad there are a few like dersh left. No pun intended.

Hadn't heard that Dershowitz said that. If he refused, there are others. The big problem is that you need one or two members of the club on your team. Trump reminds me of Al Czervik.

When this is all over...there's gonna be a new club. Politics in America will be fundamentally changed. I think people with lifetime ties to DC power will be going to prison. Trumps a bulldog. Not a person you want as an enemy.

I've said that from day 1.......ol' boy has changed the game.....and the dippos don't have a fk'n clue how to combat it.....

#happydays

I agree with that statement; however, it will be temporary and highly dependent upon who follows Trump. I'll be honest and state I am really not sure what we are seeing. On the surface it appears that he is a reform minded person whose goal is to transform gov't to something more in line with how it used to be - the fabled halcyon days of old? At times it appears that this is being driven by "Trump the idealist". Except I don't believe such a creature exists. I think "Trump the egoist" is who we have. That would square with the notion that Trump is not a reformer but a charismatic leader whose sole purpose is to make waves primarily to feed his ego. No doubt that a reformer and an egoist can be traveling partners if the end results are the same despite the motives being different.

In the end, I think Trump is like mankind trying to tame nature and gov't corruption and the "deep state" IS nature. Sooner or later - nature always wins. IMHO, there is no one waiting in the wings to continue governing in the way Trump is doing it now.

I guess we will see. Fortunately for us, it rarely matters a whole lot because the things that impact us the most are local issues. If a swamp critter takes over after Trump, and that swamp critter can maintain a booming economy, then none of it will matter. JMHO.

if one simply leaves out the personality/party aspect and focuses on policy, it becomes much easier to view through an objective lens....

and you're right.....after DJT, does the next regime pay attention to lessons learned....this is why #henceDJT was critically important moving forward....

you get it....