Donald Trump's lawyer took to the Sunday shows today to defend the President For Now. You can tell how little Donald Trump's lawyer trusts his client because when asked point-blank whether America could count on Trump, at the very least, not firing the special counsel investigating Russian election hacking and its potential ties to members of the Trump campaign Donald Trump's lawyer could not promise that wouldn't happen.
[O]n Sunday, ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Trump attorney Jay Sekulow whether the president would pledge not to interfere or order the attorney general to fire Mueller.
“Look, the president of the United States, as we all know, is a unitary executive,” Sekulow said on ABC’s “This Week.” “But the president is going to seek the advice of his counsel and inside the government as well as outside. And I'm not going to speculate on what he will, or will not, do.”
It seems likely that Trump's attorney would not be at all surprised if Trump fired the man appointed to investigate members of his White House. It seems very, very likely that Jay Sekulow has no idea what the hell his client might do at any given moment or during any given tantrum, and so he's not about to go out on a limb by assuring the viewing public that Donald Trump wouldn't do the crookedest possible thing anyone can imagine Donald Trump doing.
Sekulow said he “can’t imagine” the issue would arise, but “that, again, is an issue that the president with his advisers would discuss if there was a basis.”
In the middle of all that ass-covering, however, Sekulow still seems to want to assure America that his irritable and unpredictable client would at least consult with "his advisers" before doing such a transparently crooked thing.
He may still be promising too much.