Courtesy of Pam Martens
Trump’s New Lawyer, Jay Sekulow (Right), Appears on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace
Four years ago Wall Street On Parade published an investigative report with the headline: “Jay Sekulow: The Man Pumping the IRS Scandal on Network TV Sits at the Center of a Web of Nonprofits That Have Paid Him, His Family and Related Businesses $40 Million Since 1998.” Add millions of dollars more to the above figure and you have an updated account of the man the President of the United States just added to his white collar criminal defense legal team. Oh yes, there’s one more update, Jay Sekulow has no white collar criminal defense legal experience.
Sekulow also appears to be the new spokesperson for Trump’s legal team. His tenure in that position may be short-lived given his recent roasting by comedian Stephen Colbert. (See video clip below.) This past Sunday, June 18, Sekulow made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows, which included getting into a heated argument with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday on whether Sekulow had just flip-flopped on whether Trump is under investigation by the Justice Department’s Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.
Colbert had this take on Sekulow’s performance on Fox News:
Sekulow is saying Trump is not under investigation, is under investigation, and he has no idea if he’s under investigation. A good lawyer covers his bases. That way, when the judge asks ‘How does your client plead, guilty or innocent,’ he could answer, ‘All of the above.’
One sentence during Sekulow’s appearance on Fox News Sunday might provide some insight into where this lawyer plans to go with the Trump case. At one point Sekulow told Wallace: “I just gave you the legal theory, Chris, of how the constitution works….” A great deal of Sekulow’s past has been advancing right-wing cases to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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