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By George T. Conway III
Jan. 19, 2020 at 12:52 p.m. EST
This is what happens when you dont pay your legal bills.
President Trump, whose businesses and now campaign have left a long trail of unpaid bills behind them, has never discriminated when it comes to stiffing people who work for him. That includes lawyers which is part of the reason he found the need to make some curious last-minute tweaks to his team, announcing the addition of the legal odd couple of Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth W. Starr.
The president has consistently encountered difficulty in hiring good lawyers to defend him. In 2017, after Robert S. Mueller III became special counsel, Trump couldnt find a high-end law firm that would take him as a client. His reputation for nonpayment preceded him: One major Manhattan firm I know had once been forced to eat bills for millions in bond work it once did for Trump. No doubt other members of the legal community knew of other examples.
Of course, being cheap wasnt the only reason Trump struck out among the nations legal elite. There was the fact that he would be an erratic client whod never take reasonable direction direction as in shut up and stop tweeting. Firms also understood that taking on Trump would kill their recruiting efforts: Top law students of varying political stripes who might be willing, even eager, to join a firm that provides pro bono representation to murderers on death row, want nothing to do with Trump.
That left Trump to be personally defended in the Mueller investigation by a random patchwork of counsel, including Jay Sekulow, a lawyer specializing in religious liberty cases, and John Dowd, a Washington solo practitioner who, according to Bob Woodward, viewed Trump as a f---ing liar. (Dowd denies that.) Last but not least, Trump had the assistance of Rudolph W. Giuliani who has done more than anyone other than Trump himself to get Trump impeached.
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SWBTATTReg
(22,183 posts)rump has (or is in process of) ruining the good reputation of this country. I saw one article last night on YouTube that countries are starting to withdraw and not have relations w/ the US (Britain, others), countries are rejecting the use of petrodollars to pay / buy oil with (China, Russia, others), we no longer can assure ourselves of convincing others in the UN any other of the values that we uphold (there are only rump values now, none of 'American' values so treasured before in the past).
All who supported this scumbag of a president deserve the credit for bringing this country to its knees. This is now a national security issue, that people in the cabinet can get together and force this incapable president out of office, or the Senate can come to its senses and impeach this guy out of office, such as the constitution states. There is no reason for allowing this clearly incompetent president to continue in office, unless (1) you are incompetent (2) you have been brought out (3) party above all, including country...this means you're a traitor to the values espoused in the Constitution and by this Country.
Blue Owl
(50,532 posts)n/t
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Hear, hear!
Gothmog
(145,722 posts)trump was bad at paying his legal bills. The data we collected is now in the DNC war room https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/08/inside-democrats-2020-trump-war-room/
This new plan shows what Democrats think Trumps biggest vulnerabilities will be. And unlike in 2016, Trump now has a policy record.
The research includes roughly 7,000 lawsuits, as well an extensive document detailing every time then-candidate Trump told supporters at his 2016 campaign rallies that Mexico would pay for the wall.
A source familiar said this document will likely find its way to local reporters, groups and Democrats in battleground states as Trump diverts funds from the military to pay for his border wall.
Ferryboat
(926 posts)Now more than ever I'm beginning to have hope. With Rudy on your side what could go wrong?