Emmet Flood. Emmet Thomas Flood IV is an American attorney who served as the interim White House Counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump from October 17, 2018, to December 10, 2018, following the resignation of Don McGahn. He also served as a Special Counsel during the George W. Bush Administration .
Flood advised President Bill Clinton during his impeachment process. Flood's law firm also represented Hillary Clinton on matters relating to the Clinton email controversy.
Archived from the original on May 3, 2018. The White House announced Tuesday that Flood will replace Ty Cobb in the White House Counsel’s Office, serving as a point person for the White House’s response to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Flood advised Bob McDonnell on his response to the corruption investigation into his activities. Flood was retained by Cameron International to defend them after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
On May 2, 2018, it was reported that Flood would be replacing Ty Cobb as the White House attorney dealing with the investigation of President Donald Trump by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
He wrote a response in late April 2019 to Attorney General William Barr concerning the Mueller Report.
Emmet Flood, left, talks with then-White House Deputy Director of Political Affairs Scott Jennings and his attorney, Mark Paoletta, at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting in August 2007.
President Donald Trump has a new lawyer. Emmet Flood, who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment and worked in the George W. Bush administration, has been hired as Trump’s new attorney in the latest shakeup to his legal team. Flood joins the White House staff as special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in ...
Flood returned to Williams & Connolly LLP in 2009 as a partner after his time in the Bush administration ended. According to the firm’s website, “Emmet Flood represents individuals, corporations and professional services firms in complex white-collar matters, Congressional investigations, professional liability disputes, and other high-stakes litigation and crisis situations. He has tried criminal and civil cases in state and federal courts and in arbitration, and has represented clients in investigations conducted by grand juries, Independent Counsel and Special Counsel, multiple federal agencies, state agencies and attorneys general, and the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.”
Cobb told The Times, “It has been an honor to serve the country in this capacity at the White House. “I wish everybody well moving forward.”
Emmet T. Flood is an Illinois native. He was born in Chicago and raised in the suburbs, according to his bio on the Williams & Connolly website. He attended St. Mary’s Riverside elementary and middle school and Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, a ccording to his Linkedin profile. He then attended the University of Dallas, graduating with a philosophy degree in 1978. He completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1986 and was a post-doctoral fellow at Wesleyan University from 1987 to 1988. He then attended Yale Law School, graduating in 1991.
Ty Cobb, a friend of the President, who has done a terrific job, will be retiring at the end of the month,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said. “For several weeks Ty Cobb has been discussing his retirement and last week he let Chief of Staff Kelly know he would retire at the end of this month.”.
According to the New York Times, “he did not have a high-profile role, Mr. Flood did attend the Senate’s deposition of Mr. Clinton’s lawyer and confidant, Vernon E. Jordan Jr.”. “We can’t yet know what his plan is, but we do know that Flood represented Clinton during his legal battles.
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Dershowitz, who dined with the president last month as questions mounted over whether he would dismiss Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, added that the hiring of Flood could also indicate further “posturing” from a president eager to show he has legal might on his side.
Defense of an oil & gas industry pioneer and his new companies in a suit seeking $450 million based on allegations of misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract. The case settled for no payment, no admission of liability and with plaintiff agreeing to pay millions of dollars in defense costs.
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, 1993 - 1994
Eventually, Flood said that Trump wanted three key points expressed: 1) Trump’s decision not to assert executive privilege was not a waiver of privilege; 2) there was no waiver executive-privileged portion s of the report that were disclosed regarding Mu eller’s “underlying investigative materials,” like “FBI Form 301 witness interview summaries and presumptively privileged documents made available” to Mueller; 3) Trump reserves the right to “instruct his advisors to appear before congressional committees to answer questions on the same subjects.”
Flood proceeded to argue that “conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred” was “ not [his emphasis not ours] the SCO’s assigned task, because making conclusive determinations of innocence is never the task of the federal prosecutors.”
If Mueller did worse it would ruin Mueller forever however Mueller took it to the line, stepped on the line then later told honest answers to Barr.
All of them committed treasonous acts against this country long before president Trump even thought about running for office. That includes Mueller too. He was one of the people who signed off on the Uranium One deal that sold US uranium, something that is in short supply in this country, to the Kremlin in exchange for Hillary, and many others involved, getting millions. They actually sold out US national security to a country belligerent to us. That's only one crime they committed. There's literally dozens more. It would take a whole page on this website to cite them all. Do the research. These people were dirty, dirty, dirty.
In closing, Flood said that the “cloud” of “Russian collusion” over the presidency and the lack of mention about “improper disclosures by senior government officials with access to classified information” should “worry all civil libertarians, all supporters of investigative due process, and all believers in limited and effective government under the Constitution.”
President Donald Trump ‘s White House counsel Emmet T. Flood wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr on April 19 to complain about Special Counsel Robert Mueller ‘s report. That was the day after the redacted version of the full report went public.
Matt Naham is the editor-in-chief of Law&Crime.
By NBC News. NBC News on Thursday obtained a five-page letter White House special counsel Emmet Flood wrote to Attorney General William Barr one day after a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report was released. In the letter, Flood lamented the report, saying that the special counsel's "inverted-proof standard ...
New White House lawyer letter to Barr a 'blistering attack' on Mueller report. Flood also signaled that Trump would move to prevent his aides and administration officials from testifying before Congress.
In the letter, Flood lamented the report, saying that the special counsel's "inverted-proof standard and ex oneration statements can be understood only as political statements, issuing from persons (federal prosecutors) who in our system of government are rightly expected never to be political in the performance of their duties.".
Emmet Thomas Flood IV is an American attorney who served as the interim White House Counsel to U.S. President Donald Trump from October 17, 2018, to December 10, 2018, following the resignation of Don McGahn. He also served as a Special Counsel during the George W. Bush Administration.
Flood attended Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, graduating in 1974.
Flood obtained a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Dallas in 1978. He received a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 and 1986, respectively. His doctoral thesis was entitled Philosophy and narrative form. He went on to earn a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1991.
Flood was a law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Antonin Scalia.
Flood advised President Bill Clinton during his impeachment process. Flood's law firm also represented Hillary Clinton on matters relating to the Clinton email controversy.
Flood represented Dick Cheney in response to Wilson v. Cheney, a civil lawsuit filed by Valerie Pla…
He is a partner at Williams & Connolly. He wrote a response in late April 2019 to Attorney General William Barr concerning the Mueller Report.
He served on the Advisory Council of the Catholic Charities Legal Network.
• Flood, Emmet T. (1982). "Augustine and the classical tradition of rhetoric". History of Education. 11 (4): 237–250. doi:10.1080/0046760820110401. ISSN 0046-760X.
• Flood, Emmet T. (1987). "Descartes's Comedy of Error". MLN. 102 (4): 847–866. doi:10.2307/2905794. ISSN 0026-7910. JSTOR 2905794.
• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9)