Reports Tie Trump Withdrawal Of Former US Attorney’s Nomination To Politically Sensitive Cases | Talking Points Memo

President Donald Trump withdrew a high-profile Treasury Department nomination over the nominee’s old job, as top federal cop in Washington, D.C., reports indicate.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1291058

Never forget: Alan Dershowitz should be written into our history books as one of the most damaging and reviled men of our era.

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The legacy news media, telling us stuff we already know or have guessed.

Now, multiple outlets report that the change was a result of Liu’s old job, where she supervised a number of politically sensitive cases including those against Trump confidante Roger Stone and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Still, I suppose verification is worth something.

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Another lawyer who won’t have the stench of the administration on her career.

This could be the best thing that has happened to her.

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Have you, as a non smoker, ever lived with a two-pack a day smoker.

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I do now. Well, maybe not two packs a day, but still a smoker.

This entry won’t make it on to her resume. Ergo, no, it won’t impact her career.

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It certainly will. Serving as a Trump KKKult loyalist would have guaranteed her a giant salary at a corrupt GOP firm like Jones Day when she left government. She will no longer have that opportunity. Her only job was to protect Trump and mete our his vengeance on behalf of the GOP and their agenda and she failed.

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I hope you’re right as folks have a tendency to tar with the same brush.

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Let me put it this way:

My resume has 24 years of project experience for projects I actually served on. It doesn’t have anything on there for those for which I interviewed and didn’t either succeed or accept, if succeeded.

This gig for her will be the one ‘that got away’.

@sniffit, and that in the real world will be enough to salvage her career among the real lawyers, vs. the hacks.

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She can hope so, but she’s somewhat tainted from both directions. I agree that not getting the nomination or having it pulled by a douchebag POTUS really isn’t the issue, but her wilingness to serve him and then her unwillingness to REALLY serve him is a double-edged sword.

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Hey, I’ve taken jobs I wasn’t proud of. Happens to all of us.

What will go on the record is what she did that CAUSED her to be withdrawn. Much more important.

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Instead of playing cute games with people’s careers, maybe the Trump administration can do something good for the rest of us.

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And Dershowitz plays the victim in that he is no longer invited to Martha’s Vineyard parties. The indignity of it all!! Talk about drunk on yourself!!

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That was snark, right?

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Now Playing!

President’s Personal Retribution Tour 2020

(h/t Matt Shuham)

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Is this evolutionary Trumpism where one can be fired before they are hired?

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As mentioned on the related TPM article on Liu, she was more likely canned for investigating McCabe, but not prosecuting. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person (Trump transition team, etc.) but that is what our country is now.

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an unnamed source familiar with Trump and other officials’ thinking.

Now there’s a scary thought. This is someone looking forward to years, perhaps decades, of therapy.

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This is old hat. See Scaramucci, Anthony.

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So basically she was fired for not being quite corrupt enough, a little like the US attorneys under shrub who were willing to do most of his dirty work but couldn’t quite extend to the fraudulent voter suppression cases.

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