With almost a week left before his second impeachment trial, former President Trump’s five impeachment defense lawyers have reportedly departed over disagreements on Trump’s legal strategy. CNN first reported the news on Saturday night.
Pretty much
That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Aside from the fact that trump is crazy and he would be the worst client ever, trump’s lawyers were probably just looking for an excuse to withdraw b/c they knew full well that trump would never pay them for their services.
smart move from a lawyers point of view.
Don’t attach yourselves to a failed case and go down in history as another victim of ETTD.
You were never going to get paid anyway.
Let him testify in his own defense at trial. Give him all the time he wants and full access to all media until he collapses.
Then all will be well once again.
In December 1851, facing the end of his term, French President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte executed a successful coup d’état. Having previously seized control of the army, Bonaparte dissolved the Legislative National Assembly and extended his term of office by ten years. One year later he declared the Second French Empire and anointed himself Napoleon III. He remained emperor until the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Karl Marx opens his contemporaneous account and commentary about the 1851 coup d’état:
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Welcome to your failed coup d’état and second impeachment farce.
So it’s going to be T**** (JD -T**** Skool of Laws) playing Perry Mason?
Sounds like a confession to me?
They just could not handle the bogusity of his arguments. Word gets around. The insanity defense would have been a sure thing. ha ha
Shorter Donnie: “Yes, I tortured and killed my entire family but one of them stole my cookie!”
Imagine how whacked-out Trump must be that the handful of quasi-legit lawyers who were still theoretically willing to represent him after five years of utter insanity and a cop-killing insurrection – so they well know the baseline they’re working with – are immediately compelled to withdraw after meeting with their prospective client. It’s like Charles Manson insisting that his defense must be that Sharon Tate and the LaBiancas were piggies who had it coming.
So is it possible to declare attorney bankruptcy?
So, if his “defense” is that the election was stolen, what follows from that is an admission of guilt, as to the incitement. “I did it, but it was right and good to do so, because I was cheated.”
Can you imagine being his lawyer, and have THAT as the sticking point?
Trump: “I want to plead guilty.”
Lawyers: “Okay.”
Trump: “No, you don’t understand. I DID it, but it was legal because of what they did TO ME!!!
But Trumps idea of a defense is basically a confession to the charge of insurrection. A lawyer might ask, so you want to confess but plead not guilty?
“Yes, I incited that insurrection, but they had it coming!”
Result: 45 Republican senators agree with that defense.
I’m surprised that they signed on in the first place. It’s not like they didn’t know he was a crazed face-eating leopard from the beginning.
I guess that reputations don’t mean shit in republicanworld.
I don’t think this whole “unity” thing is gonna work.
The Never Trumpers vs the Forever Trumpers.
The tragedy is the GOP senators will not vote to convict no matter what.
Many years ago I was in court for a minor traffic violation and a case was being heard where a young girl allegedly busted the windows out of her boyfriend’s car. The judge asked her how she pleaded and she replied, “Yeah, I did it! BUT HE CHEATED ON ME!” I think she expected the judge to say, “THAT SON OF A BITCH!” but he told her destroying someone’s property was illegal and found her guilty.
I expect the same here.