Dowd Blasts Mueller After Release Of His Obstruction-y Voicemail To Flynn Lawyer

[DonViejo]

By Tierney Sneed
May 31, 2019 6:07 pm

President Trump’s former personal lawyer John Dowd accused special counsel Robert Mueller of seeking to “smear and damage the reputation of counsel and innocent people” in how he characterized an infamous Dowd voicemail and other conduct in the special counsel report.

Dowd issued the statement Friday after prosecutors filed the full transcript of a voicemail Dowd left for Michael Flynn’s lawyer — a filing made at the request of the judge in Flynn’s case. A partial transcript of the voicemail was previously made public in Mueller’s report, which described it as part of a “sequence of events could have had the potential to affect Flynn’s decision to cooperate, as well as the extent of that cooperation.”

The fuller version makes clear that Dowd was the Trump personal attorney who left the voice mail, though that had already been reported. It was left on Nov. 22, 2017, days before Flynn formally entered his plea deal with Mueller and after Flynn’s lawyers informed the President’s legal team they could no longer have confidential conversations due to Flynn’s cooperation.



Dowd, in his statement Friday, called the obstruction section of Mueller’s report “a baseless, political document designed to smear and damage the reputation of counsel and innocent people.” He claimed that Mueller “knows and his March 2019 report reflects there was no conflict of interest between counsel for the President and LtGen Flynn involving the matters under investigation as reflected in the unprecedented cooperation by the President with all Special Counsel requests including materials and testimony describing LtGen Flynn and his resignation from office.”

(The President, in fact, did not cooperate with several Mueller requests that he sit down for an interview or answer certain questions in writing.)

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[StarfishSaver]

1. Because releasing a transcript of what you said is a "smear"

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Can you believe these damn guys?

The buck never stops.

[malaise]

3. Disbar the scumbag

[RedParrot]

4. The faux outrage of the guilty

Trump’s coterie of unethical lawyers is shameless, even when caught red handed.

[OnDoutside]

8. I don't understand why attempts have not been made to get

Dowd disbarred.

[RedParrot]

9. A complaint has to be filed at the state bar

where Dowd is licensed.

[OnDoutside]

11. You would like to hope someone will do just that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Releasing the transcript of something *he actually said* is a smear?

Dude, you said that shit. You sound like a mob fixer. Don't whine about being "smeared" just because you got caught trying to tamper with a witness or dangle a pardon.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. "Thanks, Pal." Hey good-buddy...

White entitlement is always one phone call away.

[MagickMuffin]

7. Thoughts and Preyers

Uhm, uhm, uhm, hey we gotta protect the pResident and our interests.

[displacedtexan]

10. So Dowd is one of those people whose reputation Barr wanted to protect?

If Dowd's rep is important enough for Barr to redact his criminal behavior, every damned word of Mueller's report must be published, like the Starr Repirt.

Imagine what else Barr has redacted.

[procon]

12. No worries, man! You can present all that

stuff as part of your defense at trial. No doubt the jury will find your excuses to be just as hilarious as the rest of us.