Poor Donald Trump.
He's trying and failing to find legal representation to defend him
in this ongoing investigation regarding the top secret and classified
documents that he potentially illegally took home with him to Mar a Lago.
Now, when you take a look at Donald Trump's history with refusing to pay
his lawyers or his history of throwing people under the bus after
they go through great lengths and bend over backwards to help him.
You'll understand why lawyers might not be as willing to represent him in any case.
But when it comes to something as big as treason charges or
potential treason charges,
you can understand why maybe representing Trump is not in anyone's best interest.
But here's what we know based on a report from the Washington post.
Everyone is saying no, said a prominent Republican lawyer, who like some others
spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential conversations.
Longtime confidants and advisers of Trump have grown extremely worried
about Trump's current stable of lawyers,
noting that most of them have little to no experience in cases of this type.
So his legal team consists of pretty inexperienced lawyers.
And I think that's reflected in the way that some of these investigations
are going.
You've got lawyers who have never dealt with
any government related lawsuits or criminal investigations.
You have lawyers who have tiny little firms and
have focused primarily on like real estate law.
It's just not looking good for Trump.
And look to be sure everyone deserves lawyers who will defend them,
but no lawyer is forced to defend him and that's where he runs into a problem here.
Now John Sale who's a prominent Florida defense attorney who worked on
the Watergate prosecution team said that he turned out representing Trump
last week.
In fact he's one of the few lawyers who received a call from Trump and
it was I guess courageous enough to talk about it on the record.
He said this, you have to evaluate whether you want to take it.
It's not like a DUI.
It's representing the former president of the United States and
maybe the next one in what's one of the highest-visibility cases ever.
So I think what Sales said there was he's been careful.
Let's be careful.
But I can also read between the lines and when a lawyer is
willing to sign on to an investigation or a case involving Donald Trump,
they run the risk of again Trump throwing them under the bus.
They run the risk of eventually becoming part of the investigation.
As is the case by the way with the lawyer who lied to the DOJ
about Trump having those classified documents in the first
place that lawyer might be in a lot of trouble.
But nonetheless, here's what else we know in another potential complication.
Any lawyer who made assurances to the FBI on Trump's behalf again
could end up in a lot of trouble because don't lie on behalf of Trump.
Trump search is also being hampered by his divisiveness as well as his reputation for
refusing to pay vendors and contractors who have worked for him.
So let's talk about that a little bit.
One lawyer told a story from early in Trump's presidency of his legal team
urging him against tweeting about the Mueller probe, only to find he'd
tweeted about it before they got to the end of the West Wing driveway.
Several people said Trump was nearly impossible to represent and
that it would be unclear if they would ever get paid.
I've been in situations where family members asked me to take care
of their kid for a day, right?
And you know, I don't have kids of my own, I don't want kids of my own,
but I've got that it's sometimes I like kids.
I like to be around them.
I like to take care of them and help my family members out when I can.
Children, literal three year olds and four year olds are better at
following instructions than the former president of the United States.
And so yeah, any lawyer who would consider representing
him knowing full well that he will not take your legal advice is crazy.
Absolutely crazy.
And I knew that this day would come when lawyers would realize not worth it.
It never almost never works out for Trump's lawyers.
His former personal attorney, Michael Cohen also waited on
this saying in the olden days, he would tell firms representing
him was a benefit because they could advertise off it.
Okay, let's just stop for one second.
This statement from Michael Cohen triggered me a little bit.
Not because I'm mad at Michael Cohen, but
because it reminds me of all the times people request free work from
you because you don't need the money, you need the exposure.
Not really depends on where you work.
If you work in media, it happens all the time.
No, do it.
Do it.
Please spend your entire day working for free because you get exposure.
It's just theft really.
It's stealing people's time and energy.
Michael Cohen continues to say today is not the same.
He's also a very difficult client in that he's always pushing the envelope,
he rarely listens to sound legal advice, and
he wants you to do things that are not appropriate, ethically or legally.
And Michael Cohen should know he served time in prison because he
was Trump's former personal attorney who did unethical and
illegal things on Trump's behalf, not smart, very dumb.
So I love this story because far too often we come across
people in positions of power who are treated as if they
are above the law or they just never suffer the same
consequences that ordinary people would suffer.
Normal people don't get a two month warning to hand over the documents or
else you'll get ready.
Please turn over the document.
We know you have the documents, turn them over Mr Trump or
else we're gonna have to do a raid.
And Trump's like tells his lawyer to tell the DOJ we ain't got no documents.
They gave Trump two months to comply a subpoena to turn
over the classified documents.
He wouldn't do it.
And the day the raid happened it wasn't a no knock raid.
It wasn't a surprise.
His lawyers were fully aware that the raid was gonna happen.
So I mean I think everyone deserves a fair investigation.
Even people I despise, I believe in fairness,
I believe that everyone should have the ability to defend themselves.
So on one hand it's kinda scary to not find a single lawyer,
a decent lawyer who's willing to represent you at the same time.
I believe this is called when the chickens come home to roost.
If you don't pay people they're not gonna wanna work for you.
If you continuously throw people under the bus,
they're not gonna wanna be allies to you.
And that's where Trump is today.
And sorry if I find a little bit of enjoyment reading about that.