Who Is Leaking In Trump’s White House? My Guess Is Here

Brutus Stabs Caesar

One thing that Republicans and Democrats agreed on today—and also President Trump: One or more of the people who are very close to him leaked sensitive information to the whistleblower.

My heart says Kellyanne Conway just because I cannot see how she and George Conway can co-exist in a marriage with such bipolar views of the president. Is she a mole?

But she is not my guess. It’s White House Counsel Pat Cippilone.

Sure, I am wrong. But here is my reasoning.

For one, his predecessor, Don McGahn, spent 30 hours being questioned by the Mueller team. McGahn did this freely. No one talks for 30 hours if he is compelled. It takes about 30 minutes to close down a deposition by asserting executive privilege or the Fifth Amendment.

He would have talked to Cippilone, who was taking over for him. I can’t imagine the conversation was flattering to the president. I believe it would be more like “help the president enact his agenda but do not allow people in the White House to break the law.”
Next, it's fair to say that Trump has a losing streak with his lawyers: McGahn cooperated extensively with Mueller, and it turns out that Michael Cohen was not willing to take a bullet for Trump. Cippilone might make it a hat trick. 

Then there is Cippilone’s education— an undergraduate degree, and a law degree, from the University of Chicago. I’m not suggesting every graduate of U of C is a saint. What I’m saying is that Chicago’s educational environment is crushingly challenging—you only excel there by having extraordinary discipline. I think that’s a trait that could lead to leaking out of some sense of moral imperative.

Then, there is the jealousy angle. It’s clear that the real White House lawyer is Rudy Giuliani. And Rudy was both lawyer and envoy in the Ukrainian machinations. That would have to grind Cippilone’s gears.

Then, there is the federal appeals court judge that Cippilone clerked for: Danny Boggs.

Judge Boggs has an unusual managing style: He constantly quizzes his clerks on history, literature, and classics. Now those are interesting topics. Anyone who is being quizzed on the study of the Greco-Roman world would know a lot of history, especially tragic emperors who are similar to Trump. 

This would sensitize a person to the perils of tyranny and abuse of power—not to mention glorious backstabbing events—for example, Brutus’ stabbing of Caesar, a megalomaniac of epic proportions (Trumpian).

Finally, there is the lawyer side to this. The public is really frustrated when lawyers represent the worst miscreants in society—but that’s the job of a lawyer.

But legal privilege between a lawyer and client ends when the client seeks to use a lawyer in the commission of a crime.

So, if that is true, Cippilone would be adhering to his duty as a lawyer—and also protecting his huge investment in his University of Chicago law degree.