Trump Appointee and Nominee Stream Flows from White House Annex AKA: FOX News

From FOX’s “Greenroom” to White House Oval Office 

(Great gig for those who hang on)

As special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian election interference gets closer to Trump, he is shaking up his defense team more so now that lead lawyer John Dowd resigned. Trump wanted to add Victoria Toensing and hubby, Joseph DiGenova – now it seems he backtracked on their appointment and that from Jay Sekulow, Trump’s personal attorney.

Noteworthy on all this: All three of them, (Sekulow, DiGenova, and Toensing pictured above) share a common thread: All of them have made regular appearances on Fox where they have vigorously defended Trump and attacked Mueller and the Russia probe.

Fact or Opinion or Educated Guess: This is the legal team Fox News host Sean Hannity built as well as ensuring that Fox has remade itself into a “pro-Trump propaganda machine, working to delegitimize Mueller’s probe and defend the president on all counts and now Trump appears to be tearing down his legal team and reassembling it with lawyers pulled from the Fox greenroom.

For example: Jay Sekulow, a longtime fixture on right-wing TV,  was reportedly hired to serve as “the omnipresent TV face of Trump's defense” because the president liked the way that Sekulow, who had characterized the president as the victim of a “deep state bureaucracy” and a “shadow government,” defended Trump in cable news appearances.

Conclusion: Toensing and husband, Joe DiGenova probably have their jobs for the same reason — both are conservative activists who regularly use Fox appearances to offer a staunch defense of the president and lash out at the president’s investigators in ways that mirror Trump’s own attacks on the FBI and special counsel. 

For example: DiGenova has argued that Trump was framed by FBI officials and the DOJ while Toensing has called for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate Mueller himself (over the Uranium-One/Clinton “pay to play” rightwing BS myth that Toensing now pushes – see here more on that topic). 

So, adding them to his team may signal that the president wants to engage in a scorched-earth offensive and that does not bode well for the country – although Fox and Fiends are surely delighted. 

My view: Rough days lie ahead under this president who has one desire as I’ve said before: To be a one-man dictator-in-charge of America… that is patently obvious from ever turn and decision he makes. So, stay tuned.

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