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Donald Trump's advisers are threatening to ruin one of his former attorney's reputations after he revealed infighting among his legal team on the way out the door.
Defense attorney Tim Parlatore appeared earlier this month on CNN, where he discussed the disagreements that led to his departure, and Trump's advisers are furious that he disclosed longtime adviser Boris Epshteyn's role in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents coverup -- which they feel could implicate them, reported The Daily Beast.
“He basically called into question the legal team’s ethical guidelines,” said one source briefed on the situation. “So everyone who stayed…he put everyone in a very bad position.”
Parlatore told CNN that Epshteyn “served as kind of a filter" between the legal team and Trump, and believes he lied to both the attorneys and the former president, and three sources familiar with internal discussions told The Daily Beast this was received back at Mar-a-Lago as a betrayal.
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“He puts himself out there, goes on TV and motherf*cks people,” said one of these sources. “To say Boris is obstructing — who gets hurt there? Trump gets hurt there. That’s a serious, serious, true ethical violation. It’s a f*cked-up thing to do.”
Trump's inner circle wish Parlatore had kept quiet unless he was ordered to testify under oath by federal investigators, who've been questioning the defense team, even if they shared his apparent disregard for Epshteyn.
“I agree that Boris is an assh*le,” said another Trump lawyer. “But I’ve never seen anybody quit and go on TV and discuss attorney-client matters. That’s pretty crazy. Do I think it was completely inappropriate? Of course!”
Parlatore told The Daily Beast that he'd gone after Epshteyn on TV to extinguish rumors that he quit after being targeted by the feds and insisted that he might flip on the former president and turn into a cooperating witness.
“Nobody has discussed this with me, and I hope any professional attorney would beforehand,” Parlatore said. “I am completely and totally confident with the ethics and everything I’ve done in this case – and my departure. I was talking about Boris’ obstruction of other attorneys doing their job. I didn’t implicate anyone in any wrongdoing.”
Trump's presidential campaign called Parlatore's comments "unfounded and categorically false," but some of Trump's confidantes are considering a bar complaint alleging a breach of attorney-client privilege that could drag on behind the scenes at length -- but one lawyer familiar with the situation said that could actually free him from additional attorney-client obligations.
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Watch: Fox News smacks down far right Republican complaining he gets just 3 days to read debt ceiling bill
May 31, 2023
Far-right House Republican Ralph Norman of South Carolina spent a good portion of Tuesday complaining about the debt ceiling bill, legislation that was brokered by President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy to avert a national and global financial meltdown, but even Fox News isn't interested in his complaints.
“It’s an insult, to get a 100-page bill, and be asked to decide on it on the spot,” Congressman Norman lied while at the Freedom Caucus's press conference Tuesday.
"I won't buy a microwave, unless I get it in writing," Rep. Norman said, although it was unclear what "it" is.
That video on social media went viral, with nearly one million views in just six hours.
Congressman Norman previously has claimed children are being aborted after being born while also voting against legislation to protect child sex abuse victims, refused to wear a mask during the hight of COVID because he was "tired" of them, voted for a federal vigilante "Don't Say Gay" bill, denied the January 6 insurrectionists were Trump supporters, and urged the U.S. Supreme Court to declare it legal to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
Tuesday afternoon he continued his rant about having to vote on the debt ceiling bill while only getting three days to read it, but even Fox News was not putting up with it.
"We were on Memorial Day, and to get a call to come and support a bill, a negotiated bill that we hadn't even read," Norman complained.
"It's like the [Speaker] Pelosi days. You gotta pass it before you can read it," Norman said. For only one bill, the Affordable Care Act, which is 906 pages, and was written and negotiated over the course of more than a year, did Speaker Pelosi say it could only be read after it had been passed.
"But he is giving you 72 hours to consider it," Fox News host John Roberts reminded Norman.
"Pelosi didn't do that," he claimed.
"We ought to have a lot more time," Norman insisted.
"It's only 99 pages," Roberts also reminded Norman.
Norman, who has signaled he will not be voting for the legislation, insisted it's "time to negotiate and go back to the table," which will not happen.
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'It has to be done': These are the House Republicans open to firing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker
May 31, 2023
Many House Republicans are furious with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, after they realized President Joe Biden was able to negotiate an excellent deal to avert a debt default, one that is good for the nation and the world but does not give the far-right everything they wanted.
Now some of these extremist House Republicans are threatening to invoke a parliamentary procedure they included in their agreement to support Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, even if it did take 15 tries.
Called the "motion to vacate the Speaker," under the McCarthy House rules just one person can invoke the procedure, forcing a vote on McCarthy's future. It would need just a simple majority to get rid of the embattled McCarthy, and in theory with such a narrow margin, Democrats could easily join with Republicans to boot him.
The question then would become, who becomes Speaker?
Here are the Republicans who say they are open to or willing to boot McCarthy.
Dan Bishop: “It is inescapable to me. It has to be done,” he told Politico, referring to a motion to vacate for McCarthy.
Lauren Boebert: "If this bill passes with a majority of Democrats voting in favor of it, then I'm sorry, that's the end of Kevin McCarthy's speakership," Raw Story reports.. "That is a bad, bad look to pass a bill of this magnitude without the support of the majority and if it's Democrats."
Ken Buck: NBC News reports Monday night Buck "floated using the motion to vacate," calling it the “elephant in the room.”
NBC News adds that Paul Gosar "proposed using the threat to force McCarthy to allow members to amend the bill on the House floor, under an "open rule" that could stall the bill's passage. Perry responded that they would discuss the issue more when members return to Washington after the long weekend."
Additionally, Matt Gaetz says if McCarthy can't get at least half of the GOP conference to vote for the debt ceiling bill, it would immediately "trigger" a motion to vacate.
"That would immediately be a black-letter violation of the deal we had with McCarthy to allow his ascent to the speakership and it would likely trigger an immediate motion to vacate," Gaetz said on Newsmax.
According to Fox News, Chip Roy, "a key member the House Freedom Caucus (HFC), indicated Tuesday that if Republicans do not stop the debt deal in committee he would consider ousting Kevin McCarthy from leadership as House speaker."
Ralph Norman told Fox News earlier Tuesday he might be up for kicking McCarthy out.
Separate from McCarthy's future, Politico reports these House Republicans opposed McCarthy as Speaker on January, and now also oppose the debt ceiling bill: "Reps. Chip Roy (R-Texas), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Bob Good (R-Va.), Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), Keith Self (R-Texas), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Mary Miller (R-Ill.) and Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.). Many of these members are hard line conservatives who belong to the House Freedom Caucus."
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