In familiar predicament for famously challenging client, multiple Florida lawyers decline to take Trump’s case, people familiar with the matter say.
In familiar predicament for famously challenging client, multiple Florida lawyers decline to take Trump’s case, people familiar with the matter say.
The common joke from the other place was MAGA stood for make attorneys get attorneys. It’s one thing to get paid in exposure, but it’s alright another thing to get “paid” in legal exposure. As an attorney what do you do? Can you really include a weasel statement in every filing saying “this is what he told me, I have no idea if it’s true but it’s it’s not then it’s not my ass”?
Trump’s built a reputation as being a hard client to represent. Even worse is that Trump attorneys have had some notably batshit crazy examples that makes it challenging to one’s reputation to get lumped in with. Good attorneys have had to quit their firms in order to represent Trump.
Heck, the current vacancies are because they saw what they were up against and noped out. It’s like if a place has 1.2 stars on Glassdoor, are you really gonna risk your career and jump ship to them?
Even beyond that, Trump’s known for not paying his staff unless he’s forced to, so some of attorneys literally got paid in exposure. The prospect of not being paid makes him an even more risky client to take on, and I wouldn’t be completely shocked if at this point he ended up with a public defender.