Ex-President Donald Trump announced on Sunday night that he had found two new attorneys, one of whom represented Trump ally Roger Stone, to represent him in his upcoming Senate impeachment trial after his first defense team abandoned ship little more than a week before the trial was set to begin.
I do wonder if his new lawyers will still be his lawyers by the end of the week.
I wonder if they do a lot of pro bono work?
“Schoen was also poised to represent accused child sex trafficker billionaire Jeffrey Epstein before the disgraced billionaire allegedly died by suicide.”
FIFY.
I’ve known and worked with some absolutely wonderful lawyers, deeply humane, truly concerned about the least of us. I’ve also known horrible horrible lawyers, lining their own pockets, taking advantage of their clients, and using the law to drown mother justice. Anyone who works for Donald Trump is by definition “scum”. (Sorry for using a technical term there at the end.) Compared to Trump, Jeffery Epstein was a real gentleman, not.
If they haven’t before, they will be now.
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Are they going with the “it was a perfect incitement” defense?
one of whom represented Trump ally Roger Stone
As I suspected scraping the bottom of the barrel!
Rodger Stone seems like a cartoon character. He goes well with “QAnon Shaman” Jake Angeli.
One big question, of course, is whether Trump will testify. I suppose he can’t be forced to testify, but the usual arguments apply: if he’s done nothing wrong, shouldn’t he say so? And if he won’t testify, well, he must not be sure of whether he did something wrong, or not. Under oath might be a bit tricky for him. Still, it would be a teachable moment.
Another question is who will the Dems bring as witnesses? A few of the rioters might fill the bill. Or just play recordings of Trump’s incitement, with special mention of how he said he’d be marching with them (but then declined to do so).
I wonder if they realize that they’re on a retrospective no-win, no-fee basis regardless of what their contract with Trump says about payment?
I was really expecting Giuliani to rise from his tomb over the weekend to sip from this poisoned chalice.
Legal, new word for propaganda.
Why do you want on your resumé what is essentially a defense of an insurrection that resulted in multiple deaths and subsequent suicides, along with the trashing of the Capitol, theft of confidential Congressional communications and the disruption of a lawful transition to a new Presidency?
I think the Senate should postpone the trial until every Republican lawyer in America has had a chance to be on (and quit) Trump’s team.
Yeah, it is possible that the lawyers who carried water for Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Cosby will find Trump to be below even their standards.
What? And they’re going with the defense that the election was stolen and he had the right to call in all for the invasion. If this is what they have for the defense don’t think they’ll be around too long. After all, the idiot knows best, don’t know why he “hires” lawyers when he would be so great at his own defense. 
Schoen also represented Whitey Bulger, posthumously: https://abcnews.go.com/US/deliberately-harms-whitey-bulgers-family-attorneys-blame-authorities/story?id=65802151
He’s actually the reincarnation of an ancient Mesoamerican.
My guess is generally once they’re done with the pro malo, there’s no time for anything else. Have to think they’ve considered the likelihood of being stiffed and figured any publicity is good publicity, especially if the main thing people say about you is “wouldn’t prosecute Cosby.”
