Donald Trump’s lawyer John Dowd goes completely off the deep end

| 1:30 pm EST November 14, 2019
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The pressure of televised impeachment hearings appears to be getting to everyone in the Donald Trump regime. The latest to crack is Trump’s longtime lawyer John Dowd. The guy has a history of embarrassing himself in various ways, but let’s just say that today he took things to an entirely new place.

If you watched yesterday’s impeachment hearings, you know that State Department veteran Bill Taylor came off as knowledgeable, dignified, believable, and fair. But don’t tell that to Trump’s lawyer John Dowd, who is insisting that Taylor came off as a “pitiful, ignorant, insubordinate gossip with no trustworthy information.” This is somehow a real quote. In fact Dowd took the time to email this quote to the New York Times, just to make sure everyone knows what a sniveling idiot John Dowd is.

Of course John Dowd is having a bad month in general. Ukraine scandal henchman Lev Parnas initially hired Dowd as his criminal defense attorney. But then Parnas fired Dowd, and publicly announced through his new attorney that he’s going to fully cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry. Whatever Dowd tried to do with Parnas, it sure didn’t work.

In any case, John Dowd is just the latest Trump acolyte to toss his cookies as the specter of impeachment continues to get uglier for everyone in Donald Trump’s orbit. We’ve never been entirely sure what Dowd’s actual role is in Trump’s legal defense strategy. But at this point Dowd sounds like a two year old having a bad day.