{"id":25667,"date":"2018-03-23T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T11:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=25667"},"modified":"2018-03-23T11:51:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T11:51:15","slug":"trump-lead-lawyer-for-russia-probe-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/trump-lead-lawyer-for-russia-probe-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lead lawyer for Russia probe quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s top lawyer for the Russia investigation has resigned, The New York Times reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>John Dowd, who had counselled full cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s team, had found himself increasingly at odds with Trump, who, he felt, was ignoring his advice. His exit is being called the most significant shake-up of the legal team since the departure of Marc E Kasowitz, a long-time personal lawyer, who left last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Trump added a new member to his legal team, Joe diGenova, who has described the Russia investigation as a \u201cbrazen plot\u201d to exonerate Hillary Clinton and \u201cframe\u201d Trump. He was to work with Dowd, who had taken over Trump\u2019s Russia team last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller\u2019s team wants to interview Trump personally, but his legal team is trying to prevent it or narrow the scope of the questioning, uncertain of how Trump would hold up. Trump has taken to attacking Mueller aggressively concerned that the probe could be closing in on him personally.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s top lawyer for the Russia investigation has resigned, The New York Times reported on Thursday. John Dowd, who had counselled full cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s team, had found himself increasingly at odds with Trump, who, he felt, was ignoring his advice. His exit is being called the most significant [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25669,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25667\/revisions\/25669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}