A man who represents himself in court has a fool for a lawyer. True, but any lawyer that Trump hires has a fool for a client
Yesterday I wrote an article in which I showed that simply by watching the hearings or reading or listening to the hearing transcripts, you couldn’t mistake the difference in quality between the competent paid attorneys of Trump co-defendants paying their own freight, and the third rate ambulance chasers who represent Traitor Tot.
I’m nothing if not timely. Earlier today one of Trump’s K-Mart lawyers filed a motion with Georgia district Judge Scott McAfee, indicating that his client may file a motion in federal court to have his case moved from Georgia to federal court. I’m not even a lawyer, but I know a d*ck move when I see one.
See, here’s the thing. When you file a motion in court, you are either asking the judge for something, or asking for a hearing trying to get something. A motion telling a judge that you may do something is as useless as a ham sandwich at a bar mitzvah.
I could smell this d*ck move coming a mile away. In the hearing yesterday Judge McAfee himself raised the potential for delays if one or more defendants tried to move their cases to federal court. It was one reason he had hesitance in trying all 19 defendants on October 23rd. Trump the shark caught that, and wanted to play on judge McAfee’s potential insecurity.
I’m sure that Judge McAfee has more judicial restraint than I do, because he’s sitting on a bench, and I’m just a loudmouthed Mick with a platform. My response would be something like,
Mr. Trump,
Thank you for taking the time to advise me that you may file a motion to have your case severed and moved to federal court. Please allow me to reciprocate. Tomorrow morning, I may decide to have grapefruit juice with my blueberry bagel. Should your legal team decide to actually do something, please feel free to officially advise me. Until then, I require no further communication from your team at this time.
And this nonsense is just getting started. Just look at Mark Meadows. He has his own counsel, and his motion to sever to federal court was strong enough that the federal judge requested a second round of prosecution and defense filings to buttress their positions for his consideration. The motion must be good if the judge wants a clarification of position from the two sides.
On the Trump side? The Trump paid criminal defense lawyer for co-defendant Walt Nauta filed a motion before Kiddie Kop Judge Aileen Cannon requesting that Trump Employee #4, whom he also represented, gave him the sadz by dumping him for a public defender, and then testifying before the grand jury to incriminate Trump and Nauta. His brilliant argument? Jack Smith had him testify before the DC grand jury, instead of a Florida panel.
News Flash! When Trump and Nauta were indicted and arraigned, the Florida grand jury dissolved, their duty was done. Smith could no longer continue to investigate the charges already filed. But flipping Trump Employee #4 was a whole new kettle of fish. Conspiracy to hide or destroy evidence. Smith simply decided to use an already sitting grand jury other than empanel a new grand jury in Florida. grand jury evidence is grand jury evidence, taken under oath.
This sh*t is just getting started. NY AG James is steaming forward towards her court date, with Trump lawyers ready to respond to serious motions with chest pounding. Soon enough you’ll have pre trial hearings in Manhattan, and status hearings in Florida for Trump’s lap poodle judge to preside over.
If I understand the law correctly, Traitor Tot has 30 days from his arraignment date to file to move his case to federal court. Most legal analysts agree that Trump has an even worse chance of getting to federal court than Meadows. because there is no way that Trump can credibly argue that pressuring the Georgia SoS to find 11,780 votes to overturn a vote tally, or slating fake delegates to overturn the peoples will falls under his presidential duty to ensure a free and fair election.
And here’s a teaser for you, just a taste of what’s to come. MSMBC reported today that a group in Colorado is filing a lawsuit to prevent His Lowness from appearing on the November ballot due to the 14th Amendment. The group will have to prove standing for the suit to continue. But from where I’m sitting, every citizen of the United States would have standing to file a lawsuit, since Il Douche tried to overturn the will of some 8 million voters, and overturn the democratic government to stay in power.
And who will be making those arguments on behalf of the Cheeto Jesus to remain on the ballot in federal court. Trump lawyers. And I have never seen a more craven, cowardly, submissive set of lawyers in my life. Most lawyers take on a client with a retainer, and trust the client to pay as they go. Trump doesn’t pay. As a result, his lawyers screw him with a large, refillable retainer for any work that they do. There is no trust, and these lawyers know that Trump will lie to them in a heartbeat. With Trump’s infamous propensity for firing lawyers at the drop of a hat, these lawyers are not giving Trump their best legal advice, instead they’re telling Trump what he wants to hear in order to keep the billable hours flowing. After all, Evan Corcoran tried that, and look what it got him. A grand jury subpoena, and he had to turn over his confidential files under the crime/fraud exemption to attorney-client privilege.
And to be honest, I’m bummed. When Trump goes down, all the way, I want him to have the best possible defense that money can buy. Simply because his position is indefensible. I don’t want to hear any lame bullsh*t about incompetent counsel. But the simple fact of the matter is that Trump has incompetent counsel because that’s what he pays for. And I’m down with that. Rot in hell.
If he were a vampire hunter, his cohorts would advise him to go to Dracula’s castle at midnight with a DVD of the Apprentice, and a McDonald’s combo with extra catsup, to convince the Count to share his concubines. Hell…that would be a better fate than what’s waiting for him down the road. You get what you pay for.
He want’s subservient lawyers because he perceives himself superior to them, he’s such a stable genius, because they’re simply expendable paid for services. It’s part of his delusional world view that’s based on the separation of strength v weakness – under his terms there’ll be winners v losers. He thinks he can game the legal system in the same way. This aint gonna happen – he’s gonna loose, and loose big time, this time. He has lives his whole life dominating and devouring those he perceives as weak. He has become addicted to the taste of winning using any means foul, that fit’s his transactional game plan. All this, at this point in his life, is now unravelling – it has a use-by-date, and he has, as we will come to see, can nullify what’s going to happen to him.
Correction: All this, at this point in his life, is now unravelling – it has a use-by-date, and he has, as we will come to see, nothing to offer that can nullify what’s legally going to happen to him.
You are definitely right about the lawyer thing. The law says you have to have a bar license at the table. Doesn’t say you have to listen to the person holding the license.
Overturn the will of over 80 million voters. Not a detail to fudge I think.
there has already been a suit in Florida. I don’t know the details but it was dismissed because the plaintiff did not have standing. if a member of the electorate doesn’t have standing then who does?
I agree that from a common sense point of view any American citizen has standing. I did see one legal pundit say that although he didn’t want to get into the merits, one legal issue could be that only an opponent might have standing. Time was running out in the segment but I think what he was driving at is that someone (regardless of fellow GOPers in the primary) or a Democrat formally (all that federal paperwork!) for President would potentially suffer “harm” and therefore have legal standing. Frankly, no GOPer would do it and it’s a political bomb Biden’s got too much sense to get even near, much less touch. But some kook like Marianne Williamson who I think has formally filed might give it a shot.