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The left is making it impossible for Trump to find a lawyer
American Thinker ^ | August 18, 2022 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 08/18/2022 8:02:34 AM PDT by packagingguy

Former president Donald Trump and close aides have spent the eight days since the FBI searched his Florida home rushing to assemble a team of respected defense lawyers. But the answer they keep hearing is “no.”

“Everyone is saying no,” said a prominent Republican lawyer, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential conversations.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestgarland; attorneys; coloroflaw; corruption; doj; trump; unethicalsource
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To: Ann Archy

[LIES! PROVE IT!]


Just look up “unpaid legal fees trump”. More entries than you can shake a stick at.


61 posted on 08/18/2022 9:32:30 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Trump did negotiate fees, but declined to pay exorbitant ones that he deemed, well, exorbitant. The pot-lickers do have a way of running bills up, and I mean really up. I wish it wasn’t virtually impossible to dispute lawyers’ fees.


62 posted on 08/18/2022 9:35:24 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: RoseofTexas

LOL what “Lawyers Association?”

Are you referring to the ABA? The ABA doesn’t have any enforcement authority at all and the VAST majority of lawyers are not members.

I really would like you to explain where this mythical “demonic” “lawyers association” is.


63 posted on 08/18/2022 9:37:10 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Bingo.


64 posted on 08/18/2022 9:37:27 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: quikstrike98
“A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.”

Before the cartridge box, most should consider the shoe box. Voting with your feet has been a winning option since distant human ancestors voted out of Africa, and popular ever since.

The USA we grew up in doesn't exist anymore. But thankfully, it's a big, competitive world out there. One of life's lessons is go where you are wanted. There are many options, some of them even end-stage communist.

65 posted on 08/18/2022 9:54:53 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: madison10

“On Truth Social Trump said that this is not the case”.

Thank you!


66 posted on 08/18/2022 10:02:59 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: TexasGurl24

What about the powerful Lawfare(sp?)? They seem to have a lot of power and are married to a lot of DOJ honchos. I might be wrong but I remember during the Russian hoax all those DOJ connections.


67 posted on 08/18/2022 10:10:12 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: cymbeline
Trump is likely a very difficult client with which to work. He's a very strong-willed guy who likes to speak off the cuff, etc., and I'm guessing very often does not take legal advice. That is totally his right as the client, but a lot of lawyers simply wouldn't want the kind of repeated headaches/worrying that entails for them.

He's also known to try to bargain down his bills from contractors, including lawyers, because he thinks that's just how it should be done. Most lawyers don't mind negotiating on bills if they think a charge is excessive, because they like to keep the client happy. But if they feel that the work billed was fair, and the client still wants to try to push for a bargain, they're not going to want to deal with that.

The other thing to go along with billing is that Trump's very nature is going to generate a lot of legal work because he is somewhat...impulsive. Just in casual conversations with other conservative lawyers, we've kind of all laughed at the prospect of how horrible a client he would be.

68 posted on 08/18/2022 10:11:20 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: RoseofTexas

“Lawfare” isn’t a specific group. “Lawfare” is a tactic. “Lawfare” is the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter individual’s usage of their legal rights.

Anyone, or any group can engage in “lawfare.”


69 posted on 08/18/2022 10:21:24 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: TexasGurl24

Wow! You’re good!👏🏻 You must be a lawyer? 😊


70 posted on 08/18/2022 10:25:09 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: TexasGurl24

FTR, the article does make mention of this group:

https://the65project.com/about/


71 posted on 08/18/2022 10:50:27 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“we’ve kind of all laughed at the prospect of how horrible a client he would be. “

Do you suppose Trump’s problem finding lawyers, assuming he is having that problem, is because of fee negotiation before a lawyer takes the job?

I’d say Trump has a lot of power now that results from his ability to sway voters toward his preferred candidates. Wouldn’t that cause people to want to work for him?


72 posted on 08/18/2022 11:18:22 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Isn’t that sorta like when they say that “Doctors make for the worst patients”?


73 posted on 08/18/2022 11:20:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Isn’t that sorta like when they say that “Doctors make for the worst patients”?

STOP it! Don't accuse President Trump of being a lawyer!

74 posted on 08/18/2022 11:42:01 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: packagingguy
The raid on Mar-a-Lago sends the message to Trump and anyone who is watching that the Deep State is going to dig until they find or plant evidence that removes his eligibility to run for the WH or serve as president.

This is a coup in the process--drip, drip, drip.

The raid was the Deep State's way of letting Americans know that they are in charge.

Now, given that the rule of law has been destroyed and that future Presidential candidates must basically meet Deep State approval, what lawyer in his right mind is going to represent Trump?

75 posted on 08/18/2022 12:04:06 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: dfwgator
Yes...although Trump isn't a lawyer. And there are other people that are lawyers who would be great clients. It's just that the things that some people love about him - his candor, braggadocio, pugnacity, etc., all would make him a nightmare to represent.
76 posted on 08/18/2022 12:13:17 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: gloryblaze

No, but I’m sure he’s fairly familiar with how the legal world works.


77 posted on 08/18/2022 12:28:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cymbeline
Do you suppose Trump’s problem finding lawyers, assuming he is having that problem, is because of fee negotiation before a lawyer takes the job?

No. In terms of fees, the problem isn't what is agreed to up front. The problem is whether he's actually going to pay the bills when they come it, or dispute them and argue that they should be substantially less.

That's just the money end, which I honestly don't think is the biggest problem. The biggest problem is just going to be how he does things, and the law firm being worried about being put in compromising situations. He's a very forceful personality, and is undoubtedly going to try to push his lawyers into doing things against their better judgment. If they aren't sufficiently compliant, he'll probably fire them. And if they do what he wants, they could be exposing themselves and their firm to liability/discipline. I mean, he's kind of left a trail of legal bodies in his wake.

I do also think there is a public pressure component to this, with some firms not wanting to offend other clients, and opposition by other lawyers within the firm. That likely knocks out a lot of them. But I still think he could find good representation anyway if not for the issues of fees, and him just being very difficult.

I’d say Trump has a lot of power now that results from his ability to sway voters toward his preferred candidates. Wouldn’t that cause people to want to work for him?

Why would it? In a sense, that's part of the problem for his lawyers. He's a guy who thinks he can convince anyone of anything by force of personality, and that kind of guy is unlikely to listen to a lawyer telling him that he can't do something.

78 posted on 08/18/2022 12:40:41 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I don’t believe any of this non-sense that President Trump can’t get a lawyer. But that’s just me.


79 posted on 08/18/2022 1:13:29 PM PDT by V V Camp Enari 67-68 ( This clears up a lot of misconceptions.)
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To: packagingguy

A travesty.


80 posted on 08/18/2022 1:55:27 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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