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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,563 posts)
Wed May 17, 2023, 09:01 PM May 2023

Top Trump lawyer Parlatore leaves former president's legal team amid special counsel's documents pro

You have to wonder why this attorney is leaving the TFG team. TFG just confessed to taking the classified documents on the CNN town hall which would tend to piss off most attorneys.



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-lawyer-tim-parlatore-leaves-former-presidents-legal-team-rcna84896?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=6465475e5fa89100019e67b4&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Timothy Parlatore, a key lawyer representing Donald Trump in a special counsel investigation of his handling of classified documents, said Wednesday that he is leaving the former president’s legal team.

Parlatore had been a staunch defender of Trump, calling special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the former president's retention of classified documents "improper." In a statement announcing his departure, Parlatore repeated his criticism of the investigation.

“It has been an honor to be a member of this legal team over the past year, and to litigate some very interesting issues,” Parlatore said in a statement to NBC News. “Although I have decided to move on, I believe very strongly in the merits of the case, and the DOJ is acting improperly.”....

Parlatore had previously voluntarily testified before a federal grand jury investigating Trump's handling of classified documents. Then, he answered questions about the search for classified documents that he had conducted at a number of Trump properties late last year.
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Top Trump lawyer Parlatore leaves former president's legal team amid special counsel's documents pro (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 OP
Mar-a-Lago - where men enter as lawyers and emerge as witnesses. LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #1
if any photo screamed "incel"... this one would be tops on the list. lapfog_1 May 2023 #2
This lawyer was one of the authors of the stupid letter sent to the House Intelligence Committee LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #3
TFG concealed the top secret documents at Mar-a-Lago and refused to return them. LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #4
Boris Epshteyn "interfered" with searches for classified documents. LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #5
Fun fact: Parlatore means talker in Italian peppertree Jun 2023 #6

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,563 posts)
3. This lawyer was one of the authors of the stupid letter sent to the House Intelligence Committee
Thu May 18, 2023, 01:27 AM
May 2023

Remember the idiotic letter that TFG's attorney sent to the House Intelligence Committee. In that letter, TFG's attorneys claimed that all of the classified documents ended up at Mar-a-Lago by accident due to a hurried job of packing. TFG just contradicted that letter at the CNN townhall when TFG admitted that he took the documents and had the right to take these documents.

One of the authors of that letter is Parlatore which explains why he resigned. Here is a description of some of the stupid claims made in that letter. This is a very stupid move by TFG. Congress has no power to block the DOJ/Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation. This filing contains admissions that Jack Smith will be able to use against TFG. I hope that this is a stunt that TFG demanded because



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/team-trump-begs-congress-derail-dojs-classified-docs-probe-rcna81760?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=644ab1252d3f1f00015640bd&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

It was against this backdrop that the former president sent a remarkable new appeal to Capitol Hill yesterday. The New York Times reported:

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump asked lawmakers on Wednesday to place the intelligence community in charge of assessing Mr. Trump’s handling of the classified documents found in his possession after leaving office, saying Congress should strip the Justice Department of authority to run the investigation.


If this sounds outlandish, that’s because it is. In a 10-page letter to the House Intelligence Committee, Trump’s lawyers — in all seriousness — argued that they believe a “legislative solution” by Congress is “required” to prevent federal prosecutors from pursuing the case further.

The letter proposed that the Justice Department “should be ordered to stand down.”.....

University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. Attorney and an MSNBC legal analyst, added this morning, “Surely, they know this request is a non-starter that would violate separation of powers. This looks more like a PR move on the eve of indictment.”

In this letter, TFG's attorney admits that TFG has classified documents "that the White House staff simply swept all documents from the President’s desk and other areas into boxes."



In an absolutely BONEHEAD move, Trump’s attorneys just admitted Trump may have taken classified briefings of phone calls with foreign leaders.

This is absolutely wild.

In a letter to the GOP chair of the House Intelligence Committee, two of Donald Trump’s defense lawyers argue that the fact Trump may have these classified briefings “indicates that the White House staff simply swept all documents from the President’s desk and other areas into boxes.”

In defending Trump…they may have just made it even worse for him.

Trump’s attorneys wrote the letter to urge Congress to tell the Justice Department to “stand down.”

TFG gutted the authors of this letter which is why this attorney resigned

peppertree

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6. Fun fact: Parlatore means talker in Italian
Thu Jun 1, 2023, 08:28 PM
Jun 2023

And boy will he ever - once he realizes he's in legal jeopardy and that El Cheeto is flagging down a bus as we speak, to throw him under.

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