President Donald Trump has considered firing attorney Ty Cobb while a second attorney, John Dowd, has considered quitting, The New York Times reported.
According to the Times report, Trump doesn't think Cobb is aggressive enough in his defense of the Russia investigation, and Dowd is frustrated over his inability to control the president enough.
All parties refuted the report, with Trump reassuring Cobb, Cobb reassuring his team and Dowd reassuring the Times.
"I’m sitting here working on the president’s case right now," Dowd told the Times on Monday night.
The legal team roulette comes amid Trump's hiring of yet another attorney, Joseph diGenova, who has claimed that Trump is a victim of a "brazen plot" by the FBI to frame him. And Trump is considering adding more lawyers to the team, the Times reports.
"It’s never a good idea to see legal teams change dramatically and for competent lawyers to be replaced by others," Roger Cossack, a longtime legal analyst, told the NYT. "It shows that there is chaos and that whoever the client is — in this case the president — is unhappy and is searching for the magic bullet. And it’s never a great strategy to search for the magic bullet."
Trump brought on Dowd, Cobb and Jay Sekulow to replace his personal attorney Marc Kasowitz last summer.
Dowd stepped in it over the weekend, calling on the Justice Department - "I pray" - to end special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe. Dowd later had to clarify that he was speaking for himself, not on behalf of the president, which the Times reports he was.
The hubbub that followed prompted a statement from Cobb the next day that said Trump is not considering firing Mueller.
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