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.
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
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