MSNBC’s Melber: ‘Donald Trump Is Employing More Lawyers To Silence Women’ Than His Russia Probe Defense

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MELBER: "Donald Trump in the face of two different legal threats. Stormy Daniels breaking her silence, fighting back against efforts by trump to silence her in secret arbitration. That’s one story. And also Bob Mueller bearing down on trump as his administration reels from very big new shakeups to what is a dwindling legal team. And this sets up a pretty stark contrast. Right now, Donald Trump is employing more lawyers to silence women who may talk about him than he has lawyers defending him in the criminal probe into his campaign and administration. Consider that in trump’s litigation against Daniels and other women he’s employing Michael Cohen, and the new addition, charlarder, plus whatever junior associates those are employing, plus, while the Russia probe lawyers have dwindled down to include Jay sekulow. En to put it another way, when Mueller’s prosecutors call the White House today, just anytime, with dowd and digenova out, there’s only one person left who actually still has attorney-client privilege to keep trump secrets who can pick up the line. That’s Jay sekulow. Allies pushing a big story that digenova could not represent the president because of conflicts. The problem with this story is, one, digenova had been publicly representing corrala, and corrala waived the conflict. And there are reports that trump didn’t have personal chemistry with the lawyers. Okay. Now let me give you wider context as we kick off our evening and very special guests ahead. Because while trump allies talk up why he doesn’t want certain lawyers, the president is currently outgunned against Mueller, because a lot of lawyers don’t want to work for trump. Which is a remarkable thing to say about a personally wealthy sitting president."