Posted on 03/30/2025 6:24:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The executive order directed at one of the country’s most prestigious law firms followed a well-worn playbook as President Donald Trump roared down the road to retribution.
Reaching beyond government, Trump has set out to impose his will across a broad swath of American life, from individuals who have drawn his ire to institutions known for their own flexes of power and intimidation.
Which is how the Paul Weiss, a storied New York law firm that since its 1875 birth has advanced the cause of civil rights, shepherded the legal affairs of corporate power brokers and grown into a multi-billion-dollar multinational enterprise, came to learn it was in trouble. The reason: One of its former attorneys had investigated Trump as a Manhattan prosecutor.
Trump ordered that federal security clearances of the firm’s attorneys be reviewed for suspension, federal contracts terminated and employee access to federal buildings restricted. Yet the decree was soon averted in the most Trumpian of ways: with a deal.
After a White House meeting with the firm’s chairman yielded a series of commitments, including $40 million worth of legal work to support administration causes, the executive order was rescinded, but not without a backlash from a legal community that saw the resolution as a capitulation.
The episode showed not only Trump’s use of the power of the presidency to police dissent and punish adversaries but also his success in extracting concessions from law firms, academia, Silicon Valley and corporate boardrooms. These targets were suddenly made to fear for their futures in the face of a retribution campaign that has been a defining feature of his first two months in office.
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Has this been “fact checked” by anybody?
Certainly not by the AP.
It sounds like the MSM and Soros have met in secret to discuss their new plan of attack.
they can say anything they want because nothing is done about it except an occasional lawsuit. when out right lies are told, people should go to prison. the fact that theyre not, puts us in the predicament we are in...
until it happens, nothing will change.
NO DEALS
This Law Firm and others like it need to be fully destroyed. ANY deal will be reneged on at first opportunity by these SCUM “lawyers”
Retribution? It’s more like trying to dismantle the deep state.
Let the criminals and enemies fight. There is NO BETTER disinfectant than sunlight.
Associated Press......BIG PASS
I simply do NOT read them anymore. Probably have a female CEO.
I see CNN and AP news have both gotten their orders for the weekend. “Okay, guys, the angle is that Trump is vengeful. Go!”
“a storied New York law firm that since its 1875 birth has advanced the cause of civil rights”. Right. I have a bridge for sale, any takers?
there. fixed it.
AP = Always Propaganda
Trump roars down multiple paths of retribution as he vowed.
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Did the AP ever report that the Dems “roared down multiple paths of retribution” when they were in power? Rhetorical question, of course.
or he’s shutting down the democrat’s crime machine
“The episode showed not only Trump’s use of the power of the presidency to police dissent and punish adversaries but also his success in extracting concessions from law firms, academia, Silicon Valley and corporate boardrooms.”
A perfect description of the Biden White House.
Uh-huh. No one expected the Spanish Inquisition. And no one respects or believes the AP (official Democrat Party Affiliate).
AP how is the Gulf of Mexico thingee working out?
“CNN and AP news have both gotten their orders for the weekend.”
The “tell” in this kind of propaganda is always that one can know what the story says before reading it.
Oh! The sweet, sweet tears of bureaucrats and wealthy leftists. Make it rain Trump, make it rain!
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