Trump tries to recruit "star" GOP lawyer for Mueller probe - and gets humiliatingly rejected

[Miles Archer]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-tries-recruit-star-gop-lawyer-mueller-probe-gets-humiliatingly-rejected-report/

A Washington Post report on Tuesday claimed that the Trump White House has been trying to recruit Theodore B. Olson, described as a “star” Republican lawyer, to help defend President Donald Trump in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.

However, just hours after the report was published, it looks as though Olson has rejected the White House’s overtures.

Ted Boutrous — a partner at Olson’s law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher — sent out a tweet on Tuesday shooting down any notion that Olson would be leaving to work with the White House.

Ted Boutrous
‏
Verified account

@BoutrousTed

I can confirm that @gibsondunn and Theodore B. Olson will not be representing @realDonaldTrump

10:05 AM - 20 Mar 2018

Link to tweet

[underpants]

1. Don't want to get anywhere near him + he doesn't pay

Too funny.

[erronis]

20. Not only "he doesn't pay". He soon will be unable to pay anything

Either his assets (including spawn/exs) will be totally wrapped up in legal tape.

or

This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy had a burger-with-fries,
This little piggy had none,
And this little piggy died eating a meal from his best-boy-friend

[still_one]

2. There still is some integrity

[Wounded Bear]

8. More self interest, I'd bet...

Joining the team trying to defend Trump is starting to look like breaking into the Alamo just before the final assault.

[bitterross]

10. Yep. That makes the most sense.

Pretty good indication of how the insiders think the whole thing is going to play out.

[Gregory Peccary]

30. Self interest is correct.....

Because the terms "Star GOP Lawyer" and "Integrity" are not compatible.

[Demsrule86]

37. And Olsen worked on the Marriage Equality fight too along with David Boies too.

[Cha]

46. I agree.. ted olson?

[GoCubsGo]

17. Yep. Olson has a few shreds of it left.

He and David Boies sued Schwarzenegger, challenging California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. They won, obviously. I generally can't stand the guy, but I respect him for his stand on that, as well as not wanting to be involved with Comrade Trump.

[MaryMagdaline]

3. Olson is loyal to Bush family

[True Blue American]

27. Just what I was thinking, Bush Vs Gore.

Teds wife died on 9/11 in the Pentagon crash. She had just written a book on Clinton.

[blake2012]

4. Outstanding news. Fry the fucker.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Apart from the fact that Ted Olson has a reputation to protect -

and nobody leaves Trump's employ with their reputation intact - Trump probably wasn't willing to pay a yuge retainer up front.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. But The Honor Of Taking That Gig

Did i say "honor"? What was i thinking?

[royable]

16. A typo?

Did you mean, "horror"?

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Very Well Could Have?

Honor, sarcastically. But, horror is likely more to the point.

[PA Democrat]

7. As an added "bonus" Trump is every lawyer's worst nightmare.

An idiot who doesn't follow the advice of legal counsel can't keep his mouth shut, or should I say his tiny Twitter fingers idle.

[alittlelark]

9. Ha Ha !!!

[TheBlackAdder]

11. Olson knows that Trump is not salvageable. His firm wants to be winners, Trump would be a loss.

[EffieBlack]

15. Theyre probably less worried about losing than about how theyd rid themselves of the stench

A loss is not dishonorable. Being anywhere near Trump, even if it resulted in a win, is.

[gratuitous]

18. I'd guess GDC already has a client

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher (Richard Nixon's old firm!) has almost certainly been hired by one of the other miscreants in this opera buffo, so much as they might want to (and they don't), they can't take on the short-fingered vulgarian as a client.

[TheBlackAdder]

19. I think you've nailed it.

[ailsagirl]

12. "Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide..."

[HopeAgain]

13. One factor beyond it just being Trump

is that there are too many kooky cooks in the kitchen. I don't think any lawyer with a shred of sense would work with the likes of Joseph diGenova or Michael Cohen.

[TheOther95Percent]

56. Ding. Ding. Ding. We have another winner.

I don't think there is any one factor. It's a combo of:

He won't pay his bills.

He won't take his lawyers' advice.

The likelihood that such a representation would ensure Russian government hackers would be snooping their the firm's electronic files to stay abreast of "developments."

Not wanting to keep company with the likes of Michael Cohen and Joseph diGenova.

Existing client backlash

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Updated: Can't find link or a page re my claim: tRump rejected by impeachment lawyer Emmet Flood

tRump rejected by impeachment lawyer Emmet Flood just last week or over the weekend

There is a Preet Bharara (sp?) tweet about it, something like if Emmet Flood rejects tRump then his case is as bad or worse than it seems.

[Maeve]

51. NYTimes said he was trying to hire Flood

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/us/politics/trump-mueller-flood.html

And the TweeterTwit said he wasn't trying to hire ANY other lawyers--but then he did. Which led many to believe that Flood turned him down....

[katmondoo]

21. Ted Olson became a changed man after the death of his wife on the plane that hit the Pentagon

on 9/11. I believe she was talking to him just before it went down.

[Gothmog]

22. HA HA

Link to tweet

[SayItLoud]

23. It was the NDA that

Olson and his entire firm, their wives, families and even their mailmen were required to sign by the F'n MORON that made this deal fall apart. VOTE VOTE VOTE

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Lawyers automatically have NDAs, in effect.

Lawyer-client communications are privileged. The lawyer can't tell anyone, ever, things his client tells him, even the fact that the client has committed a crime. Retaining a lawyer for any reason is in essence an automatic NDA. So that wouldn't have anything to do with why "the deal fell apart." There never was a deal. Trump approached Olson and Olson said he wasn't interested. And why would he be?

[dajoki]

24. I hate Olson, but...

I really hope he doesn't join team traitor.

[scheming daemons]

25. Trump will claim that he never asked Olson

[barbtries]

34. of course he will.

then he will malign his reputation and call him names. infantile asshole

[not fooled]

58. dump will claim

that Olsen begged dump to hire him. And that dump turned him down.

[bmichaelh]

26. Olson and Mueller

Mueller was FBI Director during the period Olson was Solicitor General of the United States.

[PearliePoo2]

28. On CNN they speculated that Olson told Dump he was going to be busy washing his hair!

[OldHippieChick]

32. Olson will not be caught dead anywhere near

DiGenova. We all know who Cheeto will listen to and Olson would be left scrambling, much as Cheeto's lawyers are today. What a mess. DiGenova will take over and shout everyone down and will feed the insatiable ego of the Cheeto. Two insane people more than double the amount of crazy.

[barbtries]

33. i imagine he's been lawyer shopping his entire life

i know he's had some for years, but jeez these days it seems like he's hiring new ones constantly.

he doesn't want a lawyer with ethics, just one who knows the law well enough to get him through the way they always have. the man is so over his head. all he can get are shysters or cult members with law degrees. he's really starting to get a stench about him.

ridiculous how happy this bit of news has made me. i may have to hop on to twitter and retweet this to him.

[JohnnyRingo]

35. I guess not everyone is for sale.

Also, a great lawyer doesn't take a doomed case. Maybe there's a fledgling public defender somewhere who seeks the notoriety.

[radical noodle]

36. Ted Olson's late wife

would have been a trump lover for sure.

[C Moon]

38. I wonder how Trump's current lawyers feel about all of this...

They were almost playing second fiddle to a "star" GOP Lawyer.

[enid602]

39. Me. Stiffy

No one wants to get stiffed by 'Mr. Stiffy.'

[TranssexualKaren]

40. My definition of hell....

Would be to go through eternity as Donald Trump’s lawyer.

[Mc Mike]

44. That scenario would fit right into an updated Dante's Inferno.

They'd have to dig a new, deeper circle, under the ninth.

[NastyRiffraff]

41. What lawyer would want to represent Dump?

From all accounts, he's a nightmare client. Never listens to advice, thinks he knows better than anyone. Plus there's the little matter of his stiffing people.

[Ilsa]

42. A demon from Hell, like Digenova. nt

[greyl]

59. Can't exert authentic quality, so rely on sensational celebrity, at any cost. nt

[Bob Loblaw]

43. Boutrous Boutrous Teddy

[Still In Wisconsin]

45. I was just about to post the same thing, by (Boutros Boutros) golly! n/t

[OnDoutside]

49. There used to be a UK TV show who used Boutros Boutros-Ghali as a punchline.

[Still In Wisconsin]

47. Is it just me or are his jowls getting even larger? I'm going to start calling TRUMP

"Donny Four Chins."

[LiberalFighter]

48. Interesting that the law firm put this out.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

50. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is a very upscale white-shoe law firm

that has a lot of big-shot corporate clients and has been around forever. I'm sure they don't want Trump's taint on their reputation.

[gopiscrap]

52. Ted Olsen is a piece of shit

he pushed George Bush on us, did all sorts of dirty legal and possibly illegal stuff to get him in office

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. But even he won't work for Trump.

[Gothmog]

54. From Prof. Tribe

Link to tweet

[raven mad]

55. Can't you hear his 3-year-old pouty wail?

Careful, staffers, widdle temper tantwum online for this evening...........

[SCantiGOP]

57. Check Twitter at 4am

Olsen was a loser, a lightweight. I would have never hired Terrible Ted, believe me sad WITCH HUNT