Much of President Trump’s personal legal team’s focus is currently being sunk into assembling a “counter-report” to whatever special counsel Robert Mueller finds in his ongoing probe, the legal squad’s attack dog Rudy Giuliani told the Daily Beast.
Like the rebuttals of the opposing party that often air after a President’s state of the union, Trump’s lawyers appear to be focusing on complaints they already have about Mueller, since they don’t actually known what his report about Trump will say.
One half of the report — already 58 pages long, according to Giuliani — is devoted to questioning Mueller’s “legitimacy” and any “possible conflicts” among federal investigators — already a favorite smear tactic of the President and his allies.
The latter half will address the substance of Mueller’s findings — though Giuliani admitted to the Daily Beast that there have been some difficulties in pulling together this section, since Trump’s lawyers are still in the dark about what Mueller will conclude.
They’ve undertaken no independent investigation or interviews of their own, according to the Beast, and everything they’re putting in the report is already Google-able.
“I don’t think there’s anything in it that isn’t publicly available in some form or another,” Giuliani said. “There is no [secret] grand jury material here…It’ll be our report, put out on…personal stationary, and it would be in response to their report…We may have to use it in court, or [send to] Congress.”
Giuliani told the Beast that if it exceeds 100 pages it will include an executive summary.
That’s nonsensical. Not only do they manifestly have no earthly clue what Mueller knows, and therefore what such a report might look like, they surely have not been informed of what Trump and his innermost circle know.
So what possible fact-based counter-report could be issued? Anything that could possibly stem from such an effort is just a bunch of shit-flinging in an attempt to discredit Mueller and his team. Binders full of ad hominims.
If this is the best tasking Trump can think of for his legal team, he is actually in even deeper shit than I imagined.
Executive Summary: We’re guilty!
a.k.a. Making shit up!
My thoughts exactly. No wonder 26 sources are saying they are completely unprepared for what is coming. It would be funny if not so pathetic. I take that back, it is funny because it is so pathetic.
Well, that’s sure to be a marvel of legal brilliance.