All posts tagged "Boris Epshteyn"

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly angry that he can't get rid of a scandal-plagued aide with ties to President Donald Trump's closest aides.

According to a Thursday report by The Daily Mail, Rubio wants to get rid of Gavin Wax, the chief of staff in the State Department's Washington headquarters, but he's been able to stay on because of an "obsessive loyalty" to Trump and a close relationship with White House aides. The Daily Mail reported that Wax's most direct line to Trump is through Natalie Harp, the president's devoted aide.

Wax is in hot water after hosting Serbian right-wing, pro-Kremlin politicians for lunch in an executive dining room despite warnings from career State Department officials not to do so, The Daily Mail reported. Wax saved himself with a "Hail Mary" move, an anonymous source told The Daily Mail....

Law firms that cut deals with Trump to stop executive orders are now fighting a secret courtroom battle, the New York Times reported.

According to the Times, the Justice Department has issued subpoenas to 13 elite law firms, including nine that struck deals with Trump early in his second term to fend off "crippling" executive orders. Four of the subpoenaed firms challenged those orders in court, the Times reported.

The nine firms that cut deals with Trump "have largely continued to generate vast profits and the White House has appeared to leave them alone," the Times wrote. Those deals included agreements to pledge nearly a billion dollars in free legal work to causes supported by Trump to head off executive orders that would have crippled these firms, according to the Times....

A legal analyst expects Todd Blanche to be confronted with tough questions about President Donald Trump's fixer during his upcoming confirmation hearing.

During an episode of Legal AF, national trial lawyer and strategist Michael Popok said that aside from questions about Blanche's handling of the Epstein files, Trump's pick for attorney general will have to answer for his ties to Trump's personal lawyer and "consigliere," Boris Epshteyn.

"There's a shadowy figure that controls all of Donald Trump's private lawyers and law firms, his battalion of lawyers going after his political enemies in courts, suing baselessly for defamation and even going after his sex abuse victims like E. Jean Carroll," Popok said. "All of those lawyers, whether they're located in Miami or in New York or in Chicago or D.C., are controlled by one person, an advisor to Donald Trump named Boris Epshteyn."...

Donald Trump was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in a recent Arizona indictment of false electors, but his right-hand man was charged, which could signal prosecutors think Trump is "personally involved" in the scheme and they want to get the goods on him, according to a Florida prosecutor.

State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg appeared on MSNBC's Ayman on Saturday, where he was asked about the recent indictment of Trump's associates.

Specifically, the host asked, "What's significant about who was charged, and why was Trump not charged if they believe he was involved in this effort?"...

Longtime Donald Trump strategist Boris Epshteyn's presence at the former president's criminal trial in Manhattan is a bizarre development, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance told MSNBC's Ari Melber on "The Beat" Friday — and it's worth keeping an eye on.

This comes after Epshteyn, who also spent a while performing right-wing content to send to Sinclair Broadcast Group news affiliates, was implicated in the plot to declare fake electors in battleground states to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and was one of the Trump associates indicted over the scheme in Arizona earlier this week.

Epshteyn has been present with Trump for some of his other cases, and even tried to speak out in court during the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial on behalf of the former president....

As overlapping criminal investigations bear down on former President Donald Trump, one potential — and prominent — co-conspirator could face particularly pitched legal jeopardy as a key participant in the multi-state, multi-stage effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Rudy Giuliani — the former mayor of New York City, former federal prosecutor, and one of the former president’s most loyal advocates — figures prominently in an alleged scheme to install fake Trump presidential electors, which appears to be the focal point of anticipated charges by both Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Giuliani’s promotion of a debunked conspiracy theory about two election workers falsely accused of mishandling Fulton County ballots also implicates him in an infamous phone call from Trump to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — also a focal point of Willis’ investigation. During the phone call, Trump tried to pressure the state’s chief election officer into flipping the election in the former president’s favor....