Who, specifically, is on this purported legal team (can’t imagine it’s Kasowitz or Sekulow)? Rank speculation about retainer also welcome.
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Mark Meadows’ silence is approaching 194dB.
When’s the last time anyone’s heard a peep out of him in public?
Looks like it was the middle of December, 2021…
Hmmmm…
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Glenn Kirchner’s response…how grand juries deal with the privileges question.
(when he says Don McGahn, he means Pat Cipollone)
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The CNN article doesn’t have any names. It links to a Rolling Stone article, also without names, but with a realistic admission:
If the Justice Department does come with charges, Trump’s current team has acknowledged they would have to bring on more legal firepower to handle the historic legal defense. “You’d need to have a real heavyweight at the top [of the legal team] for something like that, but right now nobody knows who that would be,” one Trump adviser says.
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Stop investigating Trump, or you’re gonna get the Alan!!!11!
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Alan - once possibly a heavyweight, I’m reminded now of Jake LaMotta in the closing sequence of Raging Bull
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Yeah, saw that… and for a heavyweight, they’d need someone willing to make a conspicuous withdrawal if the client misbehaves - hence the retainer issue.
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Cut the “Good day, sir!” and I’m go to go.
But seriously, what is of national importance when Trump talked to his folks about carrying out a coup?
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Remember when Hannity went to the border to “interview” Trump about border security, and surprise, surprise ended up speaking at a rally Trump held at the border?
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I expect that’s a very small, elite group and TFG doesn’t hold a lot of sway with any of them.
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Mob lawyers are trying to negotiate that any mob conversations should be exempt from examination by law enforcement because the mob boss claims any conversations are privileged because they took place with the mob boss.
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That was easy. Orban did all the work for the press.
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ETA by “the Alan!!11!!” I was assuming you meant Dershowitz, who, again, might have had some heavyweight bona fides back in the day, but that was then. In recent months he seems lonesome for the pals he used to sip Chardonnay with on Martha’s Vineyard, so I’m thinking he sits this one out in any event.
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Plus he needs to get back in with the Martha’s Vineyard crowd. He can’t be repping TFG.
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… while doing mob criming.
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The title of this Article is fancy word-salad saying this: A master criminal wishes to use his lawyers to evade accountability for his numerous crimes
I do not believe that Trump will get away with his crimes and return to Power. But were he to do so, the rule of law is visibly and probably irreparably damaged. Everyone on the Right, Center and Left knows that.
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For the Right, it’s a successful coup and a rousing success at the destruction of self rule in the United States
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For the Center and Left, it’s a long night in the wilderness to ponder their part in allowing the establishment of an autocratic rule over the vast majority of the populaton
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Lindsey Graham wanted to be cute and claim that he was a US Senator he did not have to appear at the Georgia County Grand Jury, so Fulton County DA Fani Willis went okay and told the Federal Court that Lindsey Graham’s “actions certainly appear interconnected with former President Trump’s similar efforts to pressure Georgia election officials into ‘finding 11,780 votes’ and to spread Georgia election fraud disinformation.” I am not a lawyer, but that looks like she made Lindsey a co-conspirator to the crime.
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There is one thing these crooks have forgotten: There is no executive privilege or client /attorney privilege when the parties are discussing committing a crime (steal an election). Just ask Nixon.
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