Are there no patriots? Pathetic.
Of course there are. Look at it this way: If you had infiltrators, trouble-makers, or cowards on your legal team, you’d want them weeded out, rather than them staying around and possibly fouling up the outcome Gotta get rid of the chaff in order to make room for good wheat.
The “bad apples (so to speak) had sterling reputations before this, and had won many very high-profile cases. Sometimes there’s just no way to identify a person in advance who’s going to turn on you.
Leo Terrell, referenced a little earlier in this thread, is an encouraging sign. Where there’s one, there’s more.