Jeffrey Toobin
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Jeffrey Toobin is a prolific legal analyst and author known for his in-depth coverage of high-profile cases and judicial processes. This interview reveals his strategic thinking as he navigates complex legal landscapes and articulates the implications of political actions on the justice system.
“But notwithstanding the explicit message of don't do this, I think I saw the excitement, the fundamentally interesting nature of the work that they did. And even though, at least in my early part of my career when I went to law school and practiced law for a few years, I often refer to this as sort of coming into my genetic destiny.”
“I think one of the facts that's worth knowing about Bob Muller is that he wears a white shirt and only a white shirt every day because he doesn't want anyone to think that he's sending any sort of signal about what kind of day it is. I mean, that's the level of intensity that he brings.”
“For the African American community, starting with the fact that he had every advantage that most offendants, certainly African American defendants, don't have, but race was such an enormous factor that people were able to look past that.”
“Casey Stangle's story where Casey describes when he left one of his jobs as manager and he said, we call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave. And that basically was my, I mean, I was essentially fired as an AUSA, not because of anything I had done. I was a good assistant.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 241 - Jeffrey Toobin
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