The New Face of Trump’s Legal Team Is the Christian Right’s Pit Bull

By News on the Net -- Bloomberg —— Bio and Archives June 20, 2017

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Jay Sekulow has had a lively debut as a member of President Donald Trump’s personal legal team. On June 11, the Washington attorney and conservative television figure went on ABC’s “This Week” talk show and refused to rule out the possibility that the president would fire the special counsel overseeing the criminal probe of the Trump campaign and Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. A week later, Sekulow appeared on four Sunday shows, vociferously denying that the president is himself under investigation—a direct contradiction of his boss’s June 16 post on Twitter, in which Trump said, “I am being investigated.” -- More...