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Key Trump Lawyer Withdraws as Manhattan Criminal Trial Nears
(www.nytimes.com)
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This is why Trump basically has multiple teams of freshman lawyers.
The few experienced lawyers brave enough to take him on quickly find out that he's a giant man-baby who's unable to be controlled or reasoned with (or their hubris makes them think they are one who can), and the greenhorns are too naive to know it's a trap and that they're just fodder for the Trump Grift Machine.
Either way, get fucked Joe. You should have left long ago and kept whatever shred of decency you used to have, instead of letting this rapist continue to abuse his victim.
I suspect it's more about realizing that he won't get paid than anything else. Plenty of lawyers willing to defend the guilty when they're paid to do it
Trump is definitely guilty, and I agree that he deserves a defense, but unfortunately for him, it kind of goes out the window when he doesn't respect the laws and courts that give him that right.
He has the right to a defense, not a good one, and that's exactly what he's getting because of his behavior.
The point is that it should never go out the window. It’s not “you must be this morally upright to receive your rights.” They’re rights. Much to my chagrin, he has them too. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Yeah, we're saying the same thing, except I was unclear.
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I suspect quite a few would represent a former president for free just to have that on their resume, it's being disbarred or named in future lawsuits that's the deal-breaker.
When they think they have a chance to win, and even they can control their client