• Peak Schadenfreude

    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 17 12:39:28 2022
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers -- but he keeps
    | hearing 'No'
    |
    | The former president's current legal team includes a
    | Florida insurance lawyer who's never had a federal case, a
    | past general counsel for a parking-garage company and a
    | former host at far-right One America News
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/16/trump-lawyers-fbi-raid/>

    --bks

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  • From governor.swill@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 17 18:02:53 2022
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 17 Aug 2022 12:39:28 -0000, bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman)
    wrote:

    |
    | Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers -- but he keeps
    | hearing 'No'
    |
    | The former president's current legal team includes a
    | Florida insurance lawyer who's never had a federal case, a
    | past general counsel for a parking-garage company and a
    | former host at far-right One America News
    | ...
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/16/trump-lawyers-fbi-raid/>

    The struggle is real.
    "“In olden days, he would tell firms representing him was a benefit
    because they could advertise off it. Today it’s not the same,” said
    Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for Trump who was convicted of tax
    evasion, false statements, campaign finance violations and lying to
    Congress in 2018. “He’s also a very difficult client in that he’s
    always pushing the envelope, he rarely listens to sound legal advice,
    and he wants you to do things that are not appropriate, ethically or
    legally.”

    One lawyer told a story from early in Trump’s presidency of his legal
    team urging him against tweeting about the Mueller probe, only to find
    he’d tweeted about it before they got to the end of the West Wing
    driveway. Several people said Trump was nearly impossible to represent
    and that it would be unclear if they would ever get paid."

    Swill

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    "Every investigation thus far makes one conclusion abundantly clear:
    Secretary Clinton's fundamental lack of judgment and wanton disregard
    for protecting and keeping information confidential raises continued
    questions about the exposure of our nation's diplomatic and national
    security secrets,"
    Kevin McCarthy (R) commenting on the Mar a Lago search August 09, 2022

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