Lawyer Up

I watched all four major network Sunday morning political shows. That would be Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and my favorite Face the Nation with John Dickerson. There are also shows on the cable news networks and PBS, but the above mentioned four are the top guns on Sunday mornings. 

These four shows have political leaders from the administration and Congress on as guests. They have both Democrats and Republicans giving their views on the top issues of the week. There is usually a representative of the White House on these programs too. 

The administrations representative on every program this past weekend was Jay Sekulow. Who the hell is he? Sekulow is one of Trump's personal lawyers. Not an official member of the White House staff, not a cabinet member, not even a top executive branch official. Hell, not even a government employee. A personal lawyer of the president. A lawyer who is on Trump's payroll because he may need legal counsel due to the Congressional and Special Counsel Mueller's probes.

One of the talking head panelists on one of the shows referred to it as the full Sekulow.   

This guy never met a question he couldn't avoid. On all the shows, he avoided questions, stated numerous times that he was not Donald, Jr.'s lawyer, didn't know who was paying for him or the other of Trump's personal lawyers, and ultimately blamed this whole mess on James Comey. Streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch! He also mentioned alleged Clinton-Ukrainian contacts. So, the scenario has morphed from "there is no Russiam collusion", there is "no there there" to "everybody does it". 

Apparently, this guy is the new official Sunday morning spokesman for the White House. It seems a little strange to me that a personal lawyer represents the president who is not yet under any legal indictments or even accusations. 

Sekulow appears to be the new Kelly Anne Conway. He is just as full of BS as Conway and even more combative. It was ironic to me that he was most argumentative with Chris Wallace of Fox. I thought Fox was a close ally of Trump. 

I'm not sure why these news programs even invite spokesmen from the administration. They never answer a question. I guess the hope is that they will accidentally spill the beans or make a very stupid remark. They often do. 

Is this jackass the Kelly Anne Conway replacement? If so, what the hell is her role?

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