re: #58 ObserverArt

Only ones who didn’t seem to realize that this was a problem Trump the client were Trump’s buddy Rudy and his ongoing counsel.

Everyone else wanted precisely nothing to do with Trump’s case. No major law firms wanted to do anything with it. There’s no David Boies. No Schiller. No one even approaching that level of legal acuity on the team - precisely because anyone with that level of acuity realized the problems:

1) Trump can’t be trusted as a client to be truthful with his own counsel
2) Trump thinks he’s the smartest in the room and ignores counsel advise;
3) Trump will lie to anyone about anything, and thinks he can get away with it scot-free;
4) Trump is notorious for not paying his bills to counsel, even when he does a good job.

Smaller firms balk at 4, because it’s the kind of thing that can bankrupt a smaller firm with unpaid billables. Larger firms might go for it, hoping to benefit from prestige of repping a president, but even there, the negatives around Trump are so bad, no one wants to rep him. He’s stuck with people who tell him what he wants to hear, not what he needs to hear - and tunes out anything contrary to his worldview.

Trump’s shitshow is only going to get worse from here.