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Donald Trump May Have Won Iowa—but He Just Lost a Slew of Lawyers

newrepublic.com Donald Trump May Have Won Iowa—but He Just Lost a Slew of Lawyers

Trump has lost an impressive number of lawyers in one day.

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- There’s also the worry that he’s going to use the “advice of council” defense in some of his ongoing trials. Basically, people think he’s going to go “it wasn’t my fault I broke the law, because I did it on the advice of my legal council. The only reason I did it is because my lawyers told me it was legal. I can’t be held accountable for breaking the law, because a reasonable person would expect their lawyers to provide good council. My lawyers should be held accountable instead of me.”
  
  Basically, people think Trump is going to put his lawyers on blast, to try and divert the charges away from himself. This waives his attorney-client privilege, (because it basically turns his attorney’s records into evidence, and prosecutors can inspect his attorney’s papers to see if they have him bad council,) but it could potentially land his lawyers in hot water if prosecutors discover that they did, in fact, provide bad council.
  
  But this also means no lawyers are going to want to work with him in the future. Because he’s proven that when shit hits the fan, he’ll throw his legal council under the bus. Even if the attorneys have only done things by the book, no legal office is going to want to deal with that headache.
  
  But this also means no lawyers are going to want to work with him in the future
  
  I am fairly sure there is still a long line of lawyers waiting to work for him. The quality of those lawyers is probably not awesome and they are probably too dumb to realize they are just more meat for the grinder.
  
  Huge pet peeve here, but it's counsel not council.
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I’m actually surprised he was able to find lawyers in the first place.

I’ve legitimately lost track of how many of his lawyers have been disbarred, fined stupid amounts of money, or pled guilty to felonies. I kept track for a while, but there are just too many.

Any lawyer accepting his cases at this point must be assumed to be dumber than potted light bulbs or under duress.
- Or they're in on the grift, somehow. Crooked lawyers, while likely rare, do still exist, as evidenced by the common names that have helped the likes of Alex Jones, Trump, etc. The rest are the greenhorns too naive to know that their career is effectively over, because they're not getting paid and they'll have lost the most important cases for their demigod.
  
  Or they're in on the grift, somehow.
  
  Thus the felony pleadings. I include those in ‘dumber than a box of hair’.
  
  Good work Barnes.
He didn't "win" shit, this was always going to be a make-believe contest
- Yeah, 50,000 of the most zealous R's in Iowa voted for him And about the same amount wished for pretty much anyone else. Hardly a ringing endorsement.
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- You forgot this part of what you linked: We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing of information and a clean fact check record.
  
  I don't rate New Republic very high personally because of their obvious bias.
  
  I didn’t forget anything. I simply posted the first paragraph of the report. That’s why the link is there.

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