Trump's lawyer just impersonated the President and faked an official statement of the US government.

[DetlefK]

Last edited Sun Dec 3, 2017, 11:09 AM - Edit history (1)

So... John Dowd issued a statement. On the Twitter-account of the President of the United States. That very same Twitter-account about which WH-spokesperson Sean Spicer had said that the tweets count as official statements of President Donald Trump.
http://time.com/4808270/sean-spicer-donald-trump-twitter-statements/

How is this okay?

John Dowd wrote that tweet from a first-person-perspective, claiming to be the owner of the account, President Donald Trump.

Help me out here:
Is it legal or is it illegal to impersonate the President of the United States with the aim to issue a faked government-statement?



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/2/1720608/-How-many-people-are-authorized-to-pretend-to-be-the-president-Public-has-a-right-to-know


EDIT:
I think, this OP came out wrong. It is highly unlikely that Dowd wrote that tweet because the tweet said "pled" instead of "pleaded", a mistake an attorney would not make.

Anyways: Either Trump admitted to obstruction of justice or his lawyer should go to jail for falsifying a government-statement. These are the options.

[Orrex]

1. To be fair, Trump himself has been impersonating the president since January 20

[dalton99a]

10. +1

[The Wielding Truth]

2. No way! It must be illegal to issue fake official statements as President of the US! Criminal Act!

[doc03]

3. So what is this the start of the Trump didn't make those tweets defense.

All along someone else has been doing these insane 6am tweets. The Sargent Shultz defense "I know nothing"

[Trust Buster]

4. Trump wrote it. Why play their game ?

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[Kentonio]

12. It's a potential way to catch them lying

If Dowd is facing prosecution for a crime then he might not be so eager to cover up for Trump.

[Vinca]

5. If something comes out of a person's Twitter account in the first person,

it has to be regarded as that person's communication. If they don't want Don tweeting about this, they're going to have to wrestle his phone from his tiny, little hands and superglue his little fingers together.

[Fullduplexxx]

6. That's not my pot i was holding it for a friend

[oberliner]

7. This is a lie

Trump's lawyer made that up to cover for him.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

8. More tha likely 45 wrote it himself...

At Raw Story...

-snip-

However, as some observers noted, if Dowd actually authored the tweet in question, he used the improper conjugation of the verb “to plead” — the kind of mistake a first-year law student learns not to make, let alone a seasoned attorney like Dowd.

-snip-


Link to entire article

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/white-house-now-blames-trump-attorney-john-dowd-for-bonkers-i-had-to-fire-general-flynn-tweet/

[greeny2323]

9. It's Keystone Cops all around n/t