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According to a new report, Donald Trump is still struggling to bring in decent lawyers for his mounting legal problems because most lawyers are rejecting him. But it isn't because the lawyers are afraid to take on a tough case - It is because these lawyers say that the case is a loser and Trump is impossible to work with. So the former President has to continue to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find lawyers, and that isn't going to help him as the indictments continue to pile up. Farron Cousins explains what's happening. Link - https://www.salon.com/2023/07/27/suic...
*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. According to a new report from this past week, Donald Trump, of course, is still struggling to find decent or even good lawyers to represent him as his legal problems continue to get worse as the indictments continue to pile up. And we're not even done with all the indictments yet. Who knows? Maybe we're even gonna get some more surprise indictments like what we got this past Thursday. But either way, a new report from Rolling Stone says that lawyers have been approached by Donald Trump's team multiple times, and they keep telling him no. They keep telling him no, not just because he's such a difficult client to work with, although that is a, you know, big reason they don't wanna work with him. But most importantly, according to this report, a lot of the lawyers are saying, I don't want to take your case because it's a case that's unwinnable, which when a lawyer tells you that your criminal case, the criminal case against you is unwinnable, it means you're probably going to be convicted. Actually, it means you will be convicted, is what these lawyers think. But let me read this. Uh, this is about the Rolling Stone report, but it's from salon.com. They wrote, quote one attorney who turned down Trump told Rolling Stone, they were dissuaded by the long track record of Trump's lawyers finding themselves in their own legal jeopardy, other attorneys who have discussed the case with Trump, believe the January 6th case is a certain loser for the defense. According to the report, given that the trial would be held in deep blue dc even some of Trump's top legal and political advisors have privately called the job of defending Trump. A, uh, basically, I'm not gonna read what they wrote, but a self emulation effort. Um, other lawyers have approached the Trump team themselves and were initially receptive before pulling out because of concerns from their peers according to the report, which added that partners at some firms objected to taking on the former president as a client because it could cost them other clients. It also talks about the fact that Alan Dershowitz, who is a renowned lawyer in this country, or at least was at one point, um, who represented Trump in his impeachment trial. They've approached Dershowitz multiple times. The report says, and Dershowitz has repeatedly said, no, please stop calling me. I'm not gonna do it. Kerry Lakes already got me in enough trouble over there at Arizona. The bottom line is this, Trump is going to have to continue to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get these lawyers who are in it for the fame. They're in it for the TV appearances. They're not in it because they truly believe, Hey, this is an innocent man that is being persecuted by this administration. It's my duty to step in and protect him. You know, this is what the justice system is all about. The odds are stacked against me. I know, but by God, I gotta do this. I gotta fight for what is right. He is not gonna find a single attorney willing to do that. So the people he is going To attract, which we've already seen, Alina Haba, Christina, Bob, all of 'em, Jenna Bush or Jenna Ellis, excuse me, not Jenna Bush, totally different Jenna there. Um, we, we want to go on tv. We, we want to go in front of the cameras. We want people to know who we are. We wanna build our own personal profile. The outcome of the case doesn't matter because we're gonna prove ourselves to be, you know, the darlings of the media and they'll start calling us, whatever. There are other legal cases, not that we're representing, but hey, come on as a legal analyst. Come on tv. Maybe have your own show someday. That's the lawyers he is going to attract, because the good people, the ones who know what they're doing, the ones who've looked at this and said, you know what? I probably could do that. I could probably get you off.
