This moron can’t build a proper wall, and he’s going to solve Israel-Palestine with his moron son-in-law leading the way? Please.
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What a jackass Rand Paul is. But kudos to Roberts here.
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Because we are long past the stage of actual legal practice.
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“We know that Mr. Giuliani is the President’s private counsel, and so I can’t represent specific conversations they had,” Philbin said, because “that would be privileged.”
Can he do that? He violates the claimed client/attorney privilege to exonerate Trump’s behavior, yet at the same time says Democrats can’t ask about it. I thought if one side of a trial opens a door the other side is free to walk through it.
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I’ve only heard a few questions and tortured answers given in response, but I have to ask any of the legal types on hear. Does listening to Trump’s team of lawyers set your teeth on edge? I mean to me they’re nattering on and on and not saying anything. Is Trump paying them by the word?
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There’s a point every litigator has to be self aware of…when you’re sniffing your own shit and loving the scent…when you’ve reached the point of overconfidence and thinking you’re the smartest fucker in the room and already have everyone so convinced and the result so locked in that you can go off script or wing it or go into things you shouldn’t because your just so masterful and in control of the situation that you can win that argument too, and on the fly. This idiot blew past that line gleefully here. It may not make much difference in the long run, but he was admitting and talking about things that it was better for his client for him to just deflect instead were this any normal trial or situation. Litigator hubris 101.
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Not unless the Senate votes to allow witnesses. McConnell certainly is not eager to do so.
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Some of the lawyering by the Republicans has been pretty sad. Dershowitz is an embarrassment.
Your instincts are correct. And it is doubtful that Trump is paying any of them. That is not his usual modus operandi.
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The most galling thing about this is that we, the US taxpayers, are likely footing the bill.
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All true but it looks like they are going to win this battle just the same.
@birdford
You’re right. The RNC is paying the private lawyers. We are paying the White Counsel and the Deputy White House Counsel. 45* is paying for none of it.
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You know, I remember eight years of Obama’s presidency, and how anything his administration did was looked at under a microscope by the GOP, hoping to find malfeasance.
So why wasn’t Joe Biden’s pressure on Ukraine an issue back then?
(This is a rhetorical question. We all know it wasn’t an issue back then because there wasn’t any question Shokin should be canned.)
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