Morning Joe Crew Mocks Trump Attorneys For Talking About Russia Case In Public (Video)
Joe Scarborough said the ‘lack of discipline’ from Donald Trump’s legal team is ‘staggering’
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough blasted Donald Trump’s legal team for their sloppiness after a New York Times report revealed that attorneys Ty Cobb and John Dowd were discussing the Russia investigation in public at a restaurant on the sidewalk in earshot of reporters.
Scarborough said the incident was clearly a bad sign for their client.
“Again, the lack of discipline,” Scarborough said. “I want to say the lack of any attorney that’s practiced law for more than a week knows the lack of discipline shown by this group is staggering. I don’t know any other client that, in similar circumstances, they had something like this happen, they would fire these attorneys immediately.”
Mark Halperin then pointed to the buried lede in the New York Times report about the attorneys arguing over lunch.
“There’s one other detail in that story that I think is important, which says that White House officials believe their colleagues might be wearing wires for the independent counsel (Robert Mueller) and trying to obtain more evidence within the White House,” he said.
“That doesn’t send a chill in the White House,” Scarborough said sarcastically.
Scarborough went on to note an experience he had a young law clerk when he was walking with an attorney.
“He turned to me very politely and was like, ‘Young man, we don’t talk about our clients outside of the office,’” Scarborough said, “and I looked around. He goes, ‘It doesn’t matter whether anybody is around or not — it’s something you just don’t do.’ You know, I learned that as a 23-year-old kid, and these clowns are sending e-mails (to reporters) in the middle of the night. These jackasses.”
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Later, the Morning Joe crew spoke with the New York Times reporter Ken Vogel who was seated next to Trump’s attorneys.
As expected, Vogel noted “I was surprised.”
