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The disarray inside Donald Trump's legal team is boiling over as they realize that they haven't come up with a single plan to actually defend him if he gets indicted. This isn't coming outside reports, either - this is coming from members of his legal team that spoke anonymously with reporters this week. Trump has absolutely no chance of surviving an indictment because of the chaos that he has caused with his own lawyers, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.
*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Multiple lawyers working for Donald Trump spoke to Rolling Stone this week. Were they admitted that they are basically living in the land of dysfunction. They don't know what's going on. They don't have a central plan to defend this guy, and they're constantly running into problems because his presidential campaign team basically wants to take over the legal defense so that they can use that out there in the public, which of course is putting the lawyers in a bad place because they say stupid things that the lawyers know they're gonna have to eventually talk about in court. And by the way, all of this came out before Donald Trump was indicted on Thursday evening. So before the indictments officially came down, multiple Trump lawyers spoke anonymously, of course, to Rolling Stone, where they said, we are kind of screwed. We don't know what's going on. There's no cohesion among the group. There is no defined leader, there's no defined leadership roles. And of course, you've got the gatekeeper, Boris Epstein, who won't let us have access to Trump, or at least not let us have unfettered access to Trump. The whole legal team doesn't know what they're doing. And Trump has now been indicted. Folks, they are scrambling, they are scared, they are worried. All these people know how to do is go on TV and try to make themselves famous. Those are the people that Donald Trump has hired to save his butt from going to prison. And they don't know what they're doing. They're still fighting with one another. There's still this paranoia that has gripped all of them because each one thinks the other ones may be ratting on them to the Department of Justice. It's crazy town down there in Mar-a-Lago with that legal team. And that is not going to bode well for Donald Trump as he heads to Miami next week for his official arraignment. Now granted, his lawyers aren't gonna have to actually defend him at the arraignment, but they're gonna receive those charges. They're gonna finally know officially, you know, the seven counts that Trump is being indicted on. And they're not gonna have a plan. They're not gonna have a cohesive tactic to actually work together and strategize and work with Trump. Do say this. Don't say that. They're not gonna be able to do it. Instead, what's going to happen is Trump is going to let his campaign team take the lead, and that campaign team is gonna go out there and they're gonna create this narrative. They're gonna attack the prosecutors. They're going to attack everybody involved in the process, which of course is probably going to off a potential jury. It's gonna off a potential judge. It's not gonna go well for Donald Trump, but it's gonna go even worse for his lawyers. So I don't see a good ending to this. And the whole reason this is even happening is because Donald Trump wasn't looking for good lawyers. Donald Trump was looking for people that he thought looked good on television. He was looking for people that are cutthroat and want to go after the other lawyers on the team so that they can rise to the top. Reports over the last couple of months have suggested that Trump is even encouraging the infighting that is happening with his legal team. And now he's the one who's gonna suffer the consequences of his own idiotic and chaotic brand of leadership. It is about to come back and bite him worse than he ever could have thought.
