Trump is refusing to listen to any counsel who says anything contrary to what he wants to hear

[LetMyPeopleVote]

TFG cannot hire first rate counsel without paying a $3 million retainer in advance. Most top tier firms want to be paid. In addition, TFG does not listen to his attorneys. It appears that TFG is ignoring the advice of his $3 million lawyer and listening to idiots who are telling TFG what he wants to hear.

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-s-instincts-win-out-mar-lago-escalation-supreme-court-n1299314?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

Former President Donald Trump has retained who knows how many lawyers in a truly mind-boggling number of cases since he announced his run for president in 2015. And while he has at times begrudgingly accepted their counsel, Trump is keeping only the most pliable of those attorneys around to represent him.

In the Mar-a-Lago documents case, especially, as is his nature, he’s refusing to listen to any counsel who says anything contrary to what he wants to hear. And it’s costing him dearly — both in money and in continued legal exposure as he takes his legal battle against the Justice Department to the Supreme Court.

It appears that, for the most part, the lawyers Trump has retained in his post-presidency have been acceding to his demands, no matter how ridiculous or personally damaging. (See: the ridiculous defamation suit filed against CNN this week.) At least one of them could face legal jeopardy for having signed off on official documents saying Trump, who’d squirreled away documents, had fully responded to a subpoena demanding their return when he hadn’t......

The Post reported Friday that Kise was benched for daring to suggest that Trump try to cooperate with the Justice Department. “Federal authorities had searched Trump’s Florida residence and club because they badly wanted to retrieve the classified documents that remained there even after a federal subpoena, Kise argued,” according to The Post. “With that material back in government hands, maybe prosecutors could be persuaded to resolve the whole issue quietly.”.....

As we saw after the 2020 election, the Chris Kises and Alex Cannons of Trumpworld have always been drowned out by the Rudy Gulianis and Sidney Powells. Despite having no legal training, Trump is predisposed to listen to whichever voice in a room sounds most like his own. Reconciliation and noble defeat are anathema to these types, not when there’s even the most absurdly small chance of victory. In hoping for a deus ex machina reprieve from the Supreme Court, Trump, with his visceral need for escalation, has won out yet again

I have enjoyed watching the legal screwups by the TFG team. I was amused by the filing to the SCOTUS. The brief was written better but was such a long shot that it was sad.

TFG needs to listen to his competent attorney and ignore the idiots who are telling TFG what he wants to hear

[iemanja]

1. Good

This increases the chance that he'll go to jail, which is a good thing for America.

[Blue Owl]

2. What a freakin' whiny-ass baby

Shove a pacifier in his mouth and put him in the corner

[Cha]

12. Red Alert Warning.. MF Ugly gif..

[Blue Owl]

14. Bwah!

I bet he’s overfilling his pamper at the same moment….

[Merlot]

3. This strategy has worked for him in the past, I suggest he continue with it.

[pandr32]

4. Ha-ha! I agree.

[everyonematters]

5. I am not a mental health professional, but I have come to believe that Trump is

borderline mentally ill. He can function on a day to day basis, but as time goes on, he is destructive. Because of his ego, he is extremely susceptible to delusion.

[Brother Buzz]

17. Mary Trump is, and knows the subject well

She says he's a serial liar suffering from multiple psychological disorders as a result of a screwed relationship with his parents.

[Deminpenn]

6. This is somehow surprising?

nt

[Hekate]

7. Serious question: how is he able to get any lawyer at all by now?

[Kaleva]

10. Even smart people can be conned and manipulated

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. $3 million as a retainer seems to help

[Hekate]

23. There is no spoon long enough to sup with the Devil

SMH

[dembotoz]

8. someone should tell him his lawyers have a fool for a client nt

[Cha]

9. Boo Fucking HOOOOOO!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

11. Hes a narcissist

Creating his own reality..lol.

[lame54]

13. All his lawyers pay a price - Trump doesn't...

Maybe they should listen to him

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. TFG cited the "Socks" case tonight

Tonight, TFG cited the "Socks" case. It seems that TFG wants to rely on this case. The good thing that any litigation under the Presidental Records Act will be in the DC Circuit Court and not in Florida with Loose Cannon

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TFG appears to want to litigate the applicability of the Presidential Records Act. The case cited dealing with President Clinton's personal records is being wrongly cited by TFG. It seems that TFG's attorneys either did not read this case or poorly explained this case to TFG

First, if TFG wants to litigate the Presidential Records Act, this lawsuit needs to be moved to Washington. Only the DC circuit has jurisdiction over Presidential Records Act cases. Judge Loose Cannon will not hear this case

Second, the two cases are not similar at all.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/team-trump-takes-interest-clinton-sock-drawer-case-rcna47363?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

But as NBC News report added, it’d be an overstatement to suggest there was nothing new in the filing.

Trump’s newest filing for the first time refers to what has been called “the Clinton sock drawer case,” a 2012 ruling concerning a former president’s power — in this case, Bill Clinton — to unilaterally decide what is a private record and what is a Presidential Records Act document in his post-presidency.

And what, pray tell is “the Clinton sock drawer case”? I’m glad you asked.

During his White House tenure, Bill Clinton spoke at some length with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, and as part of the project, there were many recordings of their conversations. According to one 2007 account, tapes were at one point stored in a sock drawer.

A conservative group called Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit, demanding that Clinton be forced to turn over the recordings. In 2012, a federal court rejected the organization’s claims, concluding that the tapes were personal records, not official presidential materials.......

But it’s not nearly that simple. NBC News’ report added, “Unmentioned by Trump’s defenders who began raising the issue of the sock drawer case last month is that Jackson’s ruling explicitly states that the Presidential Records Act distinguishes presidential records from ‘personal records,’ defined as documents that are ‘purely private or nonpublic character.’”

In contrast, Trump took highly sensitive national security secrets to his glorified country club. To see the two as comparable is to overlook every relevant detail.

Judge Berman would be happy to explain the differences to TFG's attorneys if this case is move to the correct set of courts and away from the TFG appointed unqualified judge

.......

[Initech]

16. That is a sure sign of a psychopath right there.

[Squeaky41]

18. Importance...zero!

Who should care about a failed human.

[Paladin]

20. Why is this even considered a news item, at this point? (nt)

[GoCubsGo]

21. Denial. It's not just a river in Egypt.

And, the orange malignant narcissist is so far down that river that he doesn't he's in it and drowning. Somebody toss him the boat anchor already.

[malaise]

22. Good

Lock him up!

[Takket]

24. shocking from a guy that literally hired a traffic court lawyer to spearhead his election lawsuit

efforts.........

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Watergate prosecutor tells 'delusional' Trump 'you had 4 years to find all the Russia documents you

TFG wanted to trade the stolen documents for some mythical documents on the Russia investigation that would somehow prove that Putin and Russia did not help elect TFG. As Jill Wine Banks noted if these documents existed, TFG had four years as POTUS to find and release these documents. If these documents existed, Durham as a US Attorney could have gotten these documents. TFG wanted to offer to trade the stolen documents for documents that did not exist and when the National Archives fail to deliver non-existent documents, TFG would then claim that he is entitled to keep the stolen documents

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https://www.rawstory.com/trump-yeas-for-russia-documents/

Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks can't figure out why Donald Trump was demanding to exchange the Mar-a-Lago documents for the information on the Russia probe....

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday evening, she explained that it's simply who Donald Trump is.

"He is definitely delusional in thinking this. First of all, as you noted, if he had such documents, if there were such documents, if they possibly existed, he had four years when he had every right to ask for them and to get them," she said. "My suspicion is they do not exist. So, let's take that first. Secondly, you cannot steal something to barter. It does go back to what happened in Ukraine where he was trying to say, okay, I'll give you what you're legally entitled to, the funding, if you do this terrible thing for me and make up something about Joe Biden. That is not how America is supposed to be doing business. That is illegal on every aspect."

"It should be that everybody in America realizes that there are no such documents, and even if there were, he can't trade stolen documents that he has no right to possession," said Wine Banks. "This goes back a long way. The Presidential Records Act was a result of Richard Nixon wanting to take tax deductions for having documents and trying to leave the White House when he resigned with the tapes. That's why we have this law, to give it to journalists and historians, to the American people, not to the person who created them as president."