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- President Donald Trump is looking to bolster the legal team representing him in the Russia investigation, which could see some of his current lawyers replaced with new ones.
- That’s according a New York Times report published Monday night that cited people close to the president who said lawyers Ty Cobb and John Dowd could be on Trump’s cut list.
- The development follows news that a new lawyer the president may add to his team had previously asserted that the FBI and Justice Department are trying to “frame” him in the Russia investigation, suggesting Trump is interested in attorneys who will echo his increasingly aggressive tone on the matter.
Fresh off a weekend of increasingly aggressive public tirades against the special counsel Robert Mueller and the Russia probe, President Donald Trump is reportedly looking to reshuffle his legal team in search of a “magic bullet” who will cater to his mercurial approach to the investigation.
According to a New York Times report published on Monday night, two of the lawyers representing Trump, John Dowd and Ty Cobb, are said to be on Trump’s cut list, while a new attorney, Joseph diGenova, is joining the team.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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