Excerpt: "John Dowd, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, forwarded an email on Wednesday to conservative journalists and others that praised Confederate general Robert E. Lee and trashed Black Lives Matter as 'totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.'"

John Down, President Trump's personal lawyer. (photo: Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Trump Lawyer Forwarded Email Praising Robert E. Lee, Trashing Black Lives Matter

By The Daily Beast

17 August 17

ohn Dowd, President Donald Trump�s personal lawyer, forwarded an email on Wednesday to conservative journalists and others that praised Confederate general Robert E. Lee and trashed Black Lives Matter as �totally infiltrated by terrorist groups.� According to The New York Times, the email cast Lee �in glowing terms and equated the South�s rebellion to that of the American Revolution against England,� and said Lee �is no different than� George Washington. Dowd reportedly forwarded the email to The Wall Street Journal editorial board, Fox News reporters, and a top official at the Department of Homeland Security, among others. It came just a day after Trump blamed �both sides� for white supremacist-fueled deadly violence in Charlottesville. The subject line of the message reads, �The Information that Validates President Trump on Charlottesville.� Dowd accused the Times of �sticking your nose in my personal email� before hanging up. �People send me things. I forward them,� Dowd said.

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+48 # ddd-rrr 2018-09-27 14:02

I listened to Dr. Ford's testimony this morning in the Senate,
and this afternoon (as I write this), Kavanaugh's sniffling
delivery of his "sales-job". One had nothing to gain
from what she said; the other has a life-time
VERY IMPORTANT post to occupy
if he is confirmed.

Which of these opposing stories would you tend to believe...?

And, WHY WERE THERE NO FBI INQUIRIES, NORMALLY DONE?

+50 # HarryP 2018-09-27 14:47

A minor point. Kavanaugh told Fox New he had perhaps acted immaturely at times while in high school, but his drinking had been legal since the minimum age in Maryland was still eighteen. But since he graduated when he was still seventeen, all his drinking (including his quest to drimk 100 kegs of beer during his senior year) had been in violation of the law.
The same was true of his drinking at Yale - the topic of this article. He arrived in 1982 as a seventeen year old and it was that year Connecticut raised the minimum age to nineteen - thus extending his illegal debauchery for another year.
Otherwise, he was a choir boy - as his parents and the Jesuits had taught him to be.
If the allegations of attempted rape and rape are true, Kavanaugh may be closer to a prison term that a seat on the Supreme Court. In Maryland, there is no statute of limitations for these crimes.

+65 # ddd-rrr 2018-09-27 15:18

Watching more of Kavanaugh's "performance", it does appear to me
that regardless of ANY other consideration, this candidate for
this important post is not temperamentally suitable
for holding a post as a judge on ANY court!

+41 # pmargaret7 2018-09-27 15:24

Wow, quite an impactful story - makes me very glad I went to a large public university where the elite could be avoided very easily! They always exist, alas, but you barely had to know each other because there were so many options for friends and/or company. I actually feel rung thru the ringer just imagining that washroom! The "haves" were probably used to having their messes cleaned up by someone much lower on the social/class order, and bigger problems cleaned up by money and their parents! Privilege is ugly, especially since the privileged feel no obligation to others who have not lived in their swirl! Boy I'm glad to be middle-classed!

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+42 # DongiC 2018-09-27 18:16

Corrupt to the core, the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee backed their sniveling, rude, obstructionist nominee to the Supreme Court unanimously. Kavanaugh quakes at the idea of an independent FBI investigation. His belligerent attitude toward Democratic senators indicates he has much to hide. I can see why Trump finds him so loveable, he lies and seduced woman when he was young. Plus, he washes it all down with beer and god knows what else. Ford, on the other hand, was magnificent. She is a fine citizen well award of her civic duty. What a contrast.

+45 # Laura June 2018-09-27 19:28

ddd-rrr -
My thoughts exactly!!! Beyond the sexual allegations, this man is too emotionally fragile for the Supreme Court. He feels soooo sorry for himself

+4 # dquandle 2018-09-29 21:24

Once he gets in and gets the sadism machine fully up and running full swing, he won't feel sorry for himself, and his fragility will never again be tested. It'll all be hunky dory once he's back in the driver's seat.

+42 # CEB 2018-09-27 19:46

+18 # Good4Glenn 2018-09-28 07:39

I learned to drink beer in the USNavy in 1952 at age 21. A Christian, at that time, I also thought drinking was a sin. Drinking and sex that followed during 2 years in southeast Asia brought years of guilt and shame. Why is there no appearance of guilt, shame or remorse in the statements of Brett Kavanaugh? Drinking alcohol and having sexual intercourse, cunnilngus and fllatio are typically legal adult behaviors unless there is social conventions or age limits. Kavanaugh, at his age, was violating laws and social norms of morality while in High School and at Yale. If he can't admit to his illegal adolescent behavior, how can he be a respected judge?

+12 # lorenbliss 2018-09-28 15:22

Perhaps the most important aspect of these hearings is how they (again) reveal the arrogantly hateful moral imbecility of our white ChristoNazi overlords -- those obscenely wealthy, viciously misogynistic men Jeff Sharlet exposes as the real USian Ruling Class.

Wake up, people, and read your Marx: this is Class War in its ultimate U.S. form: the sadistic white ChristoNazi Capitalist aristocracy against all the rest of us, most especially women, LGBTQ people, people of color and let us not forget anyone else of any race or gender who dares resist Capitalism's final Nazification of our nation.

(Yes I believe Kavanaugh will be confirmed no matter what, and yes I believe the resultant outrage will at long last push hitherto-undeci ded USian women into becoming a truly revolutionary vanguard.)

+9 # NAVYVET 2018-09-29 11:13

Once again, I wish that the Repubs could be forced (with head pliers if necessary) to watch JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG in its entirety--an indictment of the failures of the German judiciary in the Nazi era, either through their own fascist leanings or fear.
A bunch of us, all junior Navy officers, saw it together and then most of us went to someone's room in the BOQ, where we all lived, and discussed every major and minor point of it. This film was a life-changer. It made me consider my own courage (or lack) and helped me decide to resign when the war in Vietnam grew bloodier and more futile.

+9 # elkingo 2018-09-29 14:28

The single thing that pissed me off the most, was when a network commentator - a woman no less - called Ford "girlish". I didn't see "girlish". I saw a mild mannered, conscientious, decent, intelligent highly accomplished woman, absolutely scared witness by her proximity to the "big boys" - the US Senate and by extension SCOTUS, and the ravages of the yob redneck fascist Nazi core of this country. Both can hurt you. She is a hero, a profile in courage, as someone suggested. A humanly attractive woman. If pig Kavanaugh gets crow-barred into the Court,God help all of us. Look for tanks in the street, and look to oppose them.

+2 # DongiC 2018-09-30 09:32

Wow, elkingo. I agree with you completely. Kudoes to you and to so many brave commenters on this thread.

+2 # suzyskier 2018-09-30 15:30

+3 # dquandle 2018-09-29 21:18

+4 # johnescher 2018-09-30 07:40

Hey Lindsey, I don't wanna boofer turning the Supreme Court into a vomitorium.

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