I think it stinks and totally agree with Steyn!!! Officeholders must avoid the slightest appearance of treachery/evil and so should law firms avoid giving the impression that a client is not worthy of their full and unmitigated support, don't you think!?!?
Aren't the stakes high enough to justify that the client, our President, should not be subjected to publishing dubious articles in ways that tend to poison the waters the client is swimming through!!!
Sure. We agree.
But:
We have no assurance any of this is true at all, given that the MSM is patching together all sorts of recorded statements, like Pompeo’s, and putting the altered statements on at the top of the hour news on talk stations, to incite the right against Pompeo. So, why not cobble together some loose talk from people not even involved in this case and attribute them to *Trump’s attorneys* and then write a story to incite Trump’s supporters.
It would be heinous if it actually happened or happened as purported. I do not think that is the case.
That said, it is on the firm to refute and so far, they haven’t. So, I’ll mark that against them.
Most high-profile lawyers are just as scummy as any storefront shyster. They just wear better clothes and have better addresses. Many of us have been involved in events needing an attorney, even usually non-adversarial things like probate. Many have then needed to hire attorneys to fight the first attorneys. Nature of the game.
Let’s rate attorneys against journalists. Maybe just let them fight it out between themselves while we go after bigger game. That’ll be fun.