Saturday, April 21, 2018

All the President's Attorneys

News broke this week that the Democratic Party is suing our President.

  • The Democratic National Committee sued the Trump campaign, the Russian government, Wikileaks on Friday, accusing them of conspiring to disrupt the 2016 presidential election.
  • President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner are among the defendants.
  • The DNC says Russia found a "willing and active partner" in the Trump campaign to attack American democracy and defeat Hillary Clinton.-cnbc news
Just when I thought things could not get crazier for Trump and US politics, a new round of legal vituperation was filed smacking of political RICO. Mr. Trump may now hold the honors for being the most sued President in history. His reality TV presidency is fraught with salacious scandals, dizzying revolving door administration departures,  catastrophic policy decisions, and an adulation for Russia never seen before in politics. Trump TV is the embarrassing reality show we wish would get cancelled. 

Trump must be thanking God that Rudy Guiliani has joined his legal team. With Alan Dershowitz wisely backing away, Trump's paucity of ardent legal support spells trouble for his mounting constitutional troubles. Guiliani's bombastic posturing makes good press, but even he knows Trump's many corrupt, unethical, and illegal choices have put his client in a vortex of shit. Guiliani is smart enough to know Mueller's investigation is not Trump's main legal woe. It's Michael Cohen's seized treasure trove of damning evidence that will dig Trump's political grave. Even Alan Dershowitz bemoaned Trump's dilemma. "They’ll threaten him (Michael Cohen) with life imprisonment, and try to turn him into a canary that sings,” Dershowitz said of Trump’s longtime attorney who is under criminal investigation.

Sing, Michael Cohen will. Though he has previously boasted he would take a bullet for Trump, that was before he realized a bullet would be preferable to having a prison-mate girlfriend. Even without his Trump trauma, the Feds have enough dirt on Mr. Cohen's other questionable activities that his opera will be known as Trump's swamp song.

Intrigued by all of this legal and political wrangling, I asked a prominent attorney acquaintance I know his take on Cohen. After jokingly remarking to my legal pal that he was in the wrong business,  I boasted how Mr. Cohen has a successful New York City practice with only three clients. My attorney friend succinctly replied that was because Mr. Cohen has spent too much time wearing knee pads. 

No doubt Mr. Cohen will need them once all the President's attorneys fail to put Trump back together again.

Mr. Trump has vehemently denied Mr. Cohen will 'flip'. Tell me Mr. Trump, if you are truly innocent, why would you even mention that Mr. Cohen will not 'flip'? 


















In the wake of the Michael Cohen raid, I emailed an attorney acquaintance who  graduated from the Hastings School o

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