{"id":28816,"date":"2018-03-22T21:54:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28816"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:54:37","slug":"another-top-trumpkin-bails-on-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28816","title":{"rendered":"Another top Trumpkin bails on POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/static.politico.com_-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28817\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/static.politico.com_-3-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/static.politico.com_-3-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/static.politico.com_-3-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/static.politico.com_-3-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/static.politico.com_-3.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a laugh a day at the Donald John Trump Sr. White House. Except few Americans find little actual humor at what is transpiring.<\/p>\n<p>To<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/03\/22\/trump-lawyer-john-dowd-steps-down-479417\">day&#8217;s chuckle comes from John Dowd<\/a>, the president&#8217;s now-former lead lawyer in this Russia matter. Dowd has called it quits, packed it up and gone on his way.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, imagine this if you dare: Dowd says he is leaving because his client isn&#8217;t heeding his legal advice. Shocking, yes?<\/p>\n<p>Trump isn&#8217;t inclined to listen to anyone. Not his lawyer. Or his national security team. Or his chief economic adviser. The secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>The national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, implored Trump against congratulating Vladimir Putin on his re-election in a rigged vote; Trump patted Putin on the back anyway and McMaster is now thought to on his way out. Former chief economic adviser Gary Cohn didn&#8217;t want Trump to impose trade tariffs on imported steel and aluminum; Trump imposed them and Cohn quit. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson battled Trump on all manner of Russia-related matters; Trump fired Tillerson.<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8230; it&#8217;s the president&#8217;s lead lawyer who is walking away.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd has had enough. Trump seems to want to take a more prominent role in his own legal defense against the special counsel, Robert Mueller, who is proceeding with a meticulous probe into &#8220;the Russia thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am left to recall what I&#8217;ve heard so many times: Someone who represents himself in a legal proceeding has a fool for a client.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a laugh a day at the Donald John Trump Sr. White House. Except few Americans find little actual humor at what is transpiring. Today&#8217;s chuckle comes from John Dowd, the president&#8217;s now-former lead lawyer in this Russia matter. Dowd has called it quits, packed it up and gone on his way. Why? Well, imagine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another top Trumpkin bails on POTUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,6944,6734,7093,5246],"class_list":["post-28816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hr-mcmaster","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-russia-probe","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28818,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28816\/revisions\/28818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}