Trump Confirms: Washington Lawyer Pat Cipollone To Be Next White House Counsel

President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed to the Associated Press that Washington lawyer Pat Cipollone will be the next White House counsel. The Washington Post reported in August that Cipollone was under consideration for the job, and reported earlier this month that Cipollone had been selected for it.

Trump tweeted in late August, following a report by Axios, that current White House counsel Don McGahn “will be leaving his position in the fall, shortly after the confirmation (hopefully) of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.”

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  1. He’ll be advising a woman-hating prez to hate women even more by denying reproductive rights.

    Cipollone is active in the Catholic community, having served on the board of the Catholic Information Center, a group that organizes events in Washington, as well as the Board of Visitors of the Columbus School of Law. He was a founding member of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, according to his biography with that group.

  2. I sometimes wonder if the Catholic boys on the Supreme Court were assaulted or raped by their priests when they were young. It might explain a few things.

  3. I wondered how Trump got his name.

    I hate to go all deep state and shit but I want to know who is directing all these lawyers Trump’s way, and what hold do they have over him?

  4. Lots of people surrounding the moron look at records of law firms and what lawyers are in their firms, and I imagine groups like the Federalist Society are a tremendous help in steering the WH towards conservatives.

  5. Oh I understand the Leonard Leo (hey I correctly remembered the order of his name this time) connection. But there has to be more than Leo giving Trump a list of pre-approved names.

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