Michael Zelden, a former federal prosecutor who served as special assistant to Robert Mueller at the Department of Justice, compared Donald Trump’s legal team with the “dream team” that led Bill Clinton through his impeachment process, arguing the president is “far behind” where he should be.
“The best comparison is, what did Bill Clinton have as his outside counsel?” Zelden replied. “… They had a dream team that matched up equally with [independent counsel] Ken Starr's team.”
“Here, you have Jay Sekulow, who’s really a communications guy, and Ty Cobb, who’s in the White House—so he's circumscribed by virtue of his government service.”
“And so if you compare these two, the last two independent counsel investigations against the president of the United States, you see how far behind the Trump legal team is from his predecessor, Bill Clinton’s, legal team.”
