If u r Erdogan, &know Trump’s lawyer is secretly lobbying for your interests, like his ex NSA, u make different calculations abt US gov.
about if you can get away with S400, about invading Syria, about lots of things.
US govt agencies and cabinet chiefs may scream and yell, but you don’t take it seriously. will make a deal with Trump
same on Russia, same with the oligarchs hiring Trump’s coterie of lawyers, probably same with North Korea.
if there is any purpose to US FARA laws and conflict of interest rules, it is to prevent this. the president’s lawyer should not be secretly
repping foreign interests or really any other private interest that has a conflict with what is in the best interests of the United States
and some legit FARA exemptions should not detract from what the spirit of the law is meant to avoid. that US interests are being subverted
Similar with Toensing & DiGenova’s unregistered representation of Firtash funding & while running foreign political oppo campaign for Trump
even if they are old friends of the AG and their son and former law firm employee now works for the Justice Department.
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whatever technicalities Giuliani, and Toensing & DiGenova etc might legally claim for not registering with DOJ, & not respecting basic
conflict of interest & ethics guidelines, the seemingly deliberate mixing of unregistered foreign lobbying and presidential political ops
is an injustice to the United States and the American people, who are having their national interests subverted and corrupted.
