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Undated: Jay Alan Sekulow (born June 10, 1956) is an American attorney who serves as Chief Counsel at the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ). He also hosts a talk show that airs on radio and television. Sekulow is a frequent guest commentator on the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Fox News Channel. A self-described Messianic Jew, Sekulow built a legal and media empire over a thirty-year period by representing conservative, religious, pro-life groups.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sekulow
Undated: Sam Nunberg (born June 21, 1981) is a former political advisor to the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Donald Trump.
While working for the Mitt Romney 2008 presidential campaign, Nunberg was hired by attorney Jay Sekulow to work with the American Center for Law & Justice in an attempt to stop the construction of the Park51 mosque.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Nunberg
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June 19: Who is Jay Sekulow, Donald Trump's contradictory new lawyer?
The conservative attorney was thrust into the spotlight as part of Trump’s legal team in the Russia investigation – though he seems hazy on the actual details
Unfortunately for Sekulow, his introduction to the nation involved insisting across several networks that Trump was not being investigated for firing FBI director James Comey – despite the president having tweeted on Friday that he was – and then admitting that, actually, he did not know if Trump was being investigated after all.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/19/jay-sekulow-donald-trump-new-lawyer-russia-investigation
June 27: Trump lawyer's firm steered millions in donations to family members, files show
Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal Jay Sekulow approved plans to push people to give to his Christian nonprofit, which then paid big sums to his family
More than 15,000 Americans were losing their jobs each day in June 2009, as the US struggled to climb out of a painful recession following its worst financial crisis in decades.
But Jay Sekulow, who is now an attorney to Donald Trump, had a private jet to finance. His law firm was expecting a $3m payday. And six-figure contracts for members of his family needed to be taken care of.
Documents obtained by the Guardian show Sekulow that month approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/27/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-donations
July 24: Trump lawyer uses government action on abortion to raise cash for own group
Jay Sekulow, whose activist group has directed millions to his family, has telemarketers cite Planned Parenthood ‘investigation’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/24/jay-sekulow-trump-lawyer-planned-parenthood-fundraising
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March 29: Donald Trump has no real lawyers. Or, to put it more precisely, he has no lawyers capable of representing him as he navigates Robert Mueller’s ever more perilous Russia probe.
Last Thursday, John Dowd, one of the president’s personal attorneys, resigned in part because Trump would not take his advice. On Sunday, we were told that Trump’s newest potential attorney, Joe diGenova—who frequently pretends to be Trump’s lawyer on Fox News and has championed the “deep state/witch hunt” narrative Trump so enjoys—will not be able to work for the president due to a conflict of interest. Same goes for diGenova’s wife, Victoria Toensing. (In reality, the issue between the president and diGenova and Toensing was less a conflicts problem than a chemistry one.)
The president’s other great TV defender, Alan Dershowitz, says he is retired and has no interest in joining the team. On Monday, Dan K. Webb, another big-name criminal defense lawyer, turned down the president’s overtures, as did one of Webb’s law partners. And Ted Olson didn’t just decline the opportunity to serve on Trump’s legal team: The Republican wonder-lawyer also told Andrea Mitchell that the “turmoil” in the White House was “not good for anything,” then revealed to Mother Jones’ David Corn that nobody in D.C. appeared keen to take a White House gig. On Wednesday, CNN piled on, reporting that major D.C. firms are staying far away; Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall posits that female partners may be behind those firms’ no-Trump policies.
Trump, as he often does, is living in a different reality. On Sunday, the president tweeted, “Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. Fame & fortune will NEVER be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted.”
Leave it to this president to insult the last attorneys in America who might take him on as a client by suggesting they will hold their noses and do anything for money. It turns out, even those guys are busy.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/jay-sekulow-michael-cohen-and-the-rest-of-trumps-legal-team-are-no-match-for-robert-mueller.html
May 2: Trump’s Legal Team Lacks Security Clearances Needed for Mueller Negotiations
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/trump-lawyers-said-to-lack-security-clearance-amid-mueller-talks
August 5: Jay Sekulow: 'Inclination is not' to allow Trump-Mueller interview
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/5/jay-sekulow-inclination-not-allow-donald-trump-rob/?utm_source=GOOGLE&utm_medium=cpc&utm_id=chacka&utm_campaign=TWT+-+DSA&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuIe06IzN4AIVBghpCh0HHQyIEAMYASAAEgIP5PD_BwE
August 5: Trump Tweets a Confession, Then Sekulow Admits His Client Has Been Lying about His Involvement
https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/08/05/trump-tweets-a-confession-then-sekulow-admits-his-client-has-been-lying-about-his-involvement/
August 6: Trump’s lawyer [Sekulow] suggests Trump lied to his own legal team about his role in covering up collusion
"I had bad information."
https://thinkprogress.org/jay-sekulow-trump-lied-trump-tower-collusion-meeting-coverup-66a302caaa0c/
September 5: Attorney Jay Sekulow Says Trump Might Respond to Mueller's Written Questions
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/attorney-jay-sekulow-says-trump-might-respond-muellers-written-questions
September 20: Attorney Jay Sekulow alleges [without evidence] that NBC News edited Trump's 2017 interview on firing of James Comey
"I will just tell you, without disclosing any detail, that when you review the entire transcript, it is very clear"
https://www.salon.com/2018/09/20/attorney-jay-sekulow-alleges-that-nbc-news-edited-trumps-2017-interview-on-firing-of-james-comey/
September 20: Trump's Lawyer Just Debuted a New Gaslighting Technique on CNN
The NBC interview was selectively edited. Or he was just rambling. Or something.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23339739/jay-sekulow-president-trump-nbc-interview-russia-thing/
September 24: Trump lawyer Sekulow calls for pause in Mueller probe if Rosenstein exits
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/408170-trump-lawyer-sekulow-calls-for-pause-in-mueller-probe-if-rosenstein
November 28: Trump's legal team has joint defense agreement with Stone ally Corsi
"I wanted Jay Sekulow as the president's attorney to know what was happening to me with the Mueller investigation," Corsi said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-s-legal-team-has-joint-defense-agreement-stone-ally-n941436
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