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"It's a 1,000-foot pole." Top conservative lawyers steer clear of Trump's latest legal fight.

Haha! The Toxic Client

A number of high-powered lawyers who have represented Donald Trump in the past are sitting out his latest legal battle, as the former President prepares to assert executive privilege to block congressional investigators from getting information on the January 6 insurrection.

That's left Trump with a relatively legal team without a lot of experience litigating issues of executive privilege as he readies for a court fight that could test major issues of presidential authority.

Some go-to attorneys have been spooked by Trump's reputation for sometimes not paying as a client, according to several people familiar with conservative legal circles. Others watched closely as lawyers fled Trump's prior teams, frustrated by him as a client or facing their own ethical predicaments. Others still want themselves and their firms to stay far away from Trump's insistence that the election was stolen.

"It's not a ten foot pole" for law firms distancing themselves from Trump, "it's a 1,000-foot pole," said John Yoo, a University of California at Berkeley law professor who held a senior Justice Department position in the George W. Bush administration.

[cnn.com]

LiterateHiker 9 Oct 14
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Hopefully there's no meaningful resistance to all his stooges testifying. Starting to look that way.

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He doesn't pay his friggin bills. My company owner found out and had to let a third of us go. I was out of a job for five months.

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Not to mention that he doesn't pay his bills

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Most lawyers are in it for the money and they finally figured out he doesn't pay well.

Exactly

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Smart

bobwjr Level 10 Oct 14, 2021
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Weird. My Agnostic got a double post and the link didn't work.
I think this is the intended destination -- [cnn.com]

With an 'X' inserted near the start so it displays, here is the address I used.
hXttps://www.cnn.com/2021/10/13/politics/conservative-lawyers-steer-clear-of-trump/index.html

@RichCC

Thank you. I changed the link.

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Not surprised.

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Some of his flunkies can learn & think for themselves.

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