Trump Finally Has His Lawyer
In his 10 months in the administration, White House counsel Pat Cipollone seems to have earned the president’s trust in a way that few aides have done. He is both discreet, and more to the point, clear in his admiration for the president, according to a report in The Atlantic.
“Cipollone—aggressive, dedicated, and at times controlling, according to his colleagues—has helped to frustrate Democratic attempts at oversight, challenging subpoenas and crafting legal arguments to block aides’ testimony before Congress,” write Peter Nicholas and Elaina Plott.
Above the Law reports that last week Cipollone “wrote an eight-page letter to Congressional Democrats, where he openly mocked the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, stating not only that the president could not ‘permit his administration to participate in this partisan inquiry under these circumstances,’ but that it ‘lack[ed] any legitimate constitutional foundation’ and violated ‘the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent.’”
