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SCOOP: Trump's new lawyer says he helped fabricate Trump's "ladies' man" high school yearbook award--
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Trump’s New Lawyer Has Been Fawning Over Him Since High School
Here are just a few highlights from the résumé of Donald Trump’s latest lawyer: amateur poet... twice suspended from the Florida bar... and—perhaps most importantly—the man who helped fabricate a “ladies’ man” yearbook award for Trump when they were classmates at a junior military academy.
The attorney, local Florida lawyer Peter Ticktin, is Trump’s man on the ground for his latest legal salvo—a sprawling, conspiracy theory-laden broadside against Hillary Clinton and nearly 50 loosely affiliated co-defendants, all of whom Trump levels with conspiring to “weave a false narrative” to deprive him of the presidency in 2016.
The suit—which includes charges of “injurious falsehoods,” “theft of trade secrets,” and “conspiracy to commit racketeering”—has been ripped as a fantasy and “a press release.” But Ticktin and his lead counsel, Alina Habba, are taking it seriously.
But Ticktin is a curious choice to lead the lawsuit for more reasons than his poems. His firm, whose website URL is “legalbrains.com,” does not count government or election law among its many areas of expertise (though it does host 17 of the lawyer’s own poems). And while the office achieved recognized success in foreclosure law after the 2008 recession, Ticktin himself has also drawn legal scrutiny, including those two bar suspensions and a third investigation into shady billing practices during that same recession.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-new-lawyer-peter-ticktin-has-been-fawning-over-him-since-high-school
Here are just a few highlights from the résumé of Donald Trump’s latest lawyer: amateur poet... twice suspended from the Florida bar... and—perhaps most importantly—the man who helped fabricate a “ladies’ man” yearbook award for Trump when they were classmates at a junior military academy.
The attorney, local Florida lawyer Peter Ticktin, is Trump’s man on the ground for his latest legal salvo—a sprawling, conspiracy theory-laden broadside against Hillary Clinton and nearly 50 loosely affiliated co-defendants, all of whom Trump levels with conspiring to “weave a false narrative” to deprive him of the presidency in 2016.
The suit—which includes charges of “injurious falsehoods,” “theft of trade secrets,” and “conspiracy to commit racketeering”—has been ripped as a fantasy and “a press release.” But Ticktin and his lead counsel, Alina Habba, are taking it seriously.
But Ticktin is a curious choice to lead the lawsuit for more reasons than his poems. His firm, whose website URL is “legalbrains.com,” does not count government or election law among its many areas of expertise (though it does host 17 of the lawyer’s own poems). And while the office achieved recognized success in foreclosure law after the 2008 recession, Ticktin himself has also drawn legal scrutiny, including those two bar suspensions and a third investigation into shady billing practices during that same recession.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-new-lawyer-peter-ticktin-has-been-fawning-over-him-since-high-school
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