And the current shake-up is perhaps a fitting crescendo for a legal team that often appeared to be as unwieldy and error-prone as its boss. Dowd's departure, in particular, underlines the discord playing out behind the scenes with Trump's legal team nearly a year into special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Russia investigation. Dowd views diGenova as pushing him to be the second chair rather than top dog on Trump’s legal team, these people said. After his departure Thursday, Trump's other longtime personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, seemed to take a dig at what Dowd had said. So it's not as though Trump has suddenly seen the light and is signaling a clear change for a legal team that has been riven by strategic divisions before.

Source: Washington Post March 22, 2018 16:40 UTC