Musical Lawyers
A shift in the legal team in GA.
Via CNN: Trump replaces top Georgia lawyer ahead of surrender.
Drew Findling, the lawyer who has led Trump’s defense in Georgia, is being replaced by Steven Sadow, an Atlanta-based attorney whose website profile describes him as a “special counsel for white collar and high-profile defense.”
A Trump source indicated that this was not about Findling’s performance, while another familiar with Sadow called him the “best criminal defense attorney in Georgia.” Trump’s other Georgia attorney, Jennifer Little, is expected to stay on the legal team and work with Sadow.
I mean, sure, hire the best defense attorney in Georgia if you are facing charges in the state. Maybe hire someone a bit quicker than the day you are going to surrender to authorities. I mean, it isn’t like he didn’t have any notice of the deadline.
Not having ever been in a position to need attorneys in the same way as Donald Trump, perhaps all of this is more normal than it appears to me. But I am constantly struck by media reports that he is changing attorneys, his attorneys are quitting, etc. It all seems the product of a chaotic person with less business acumen than he might other pretend.
Indeed, the fact that many of his former lawyers are his co-defendants in multiple cases may add some evidence to my general impressions.
I see this move as about 1/3rd – hire an actual prominent white collar crime specialist, and 2/3rds – shuffling deck chairs. Trump is an impulsive ADHD kind of guy.
Well, if the guy Trump hired is genuinely the “best criminal defense attorney in Georgia” , then, most assuredly, he got a massive retainer up front given Trump’s history. Otherwise, the reputation is faked.
@al Ameda:
“I see this move as about 1/3rd – hire an actual prominent white collar crime specialist, and 2/3rds – shuffling deck chairs.”
You are missing the part which provides grounds for delaying the trial until after the election.
I wonder how many indictments and lawsuits are needed to get to the point where half the country’s lawyers have done work connected with El Cheeto.
This may have been done by Trump just to ensure he captures ALL the attention today.
Well yes – his entire business history says this.
His marketing acumen, now that’s another matter but his operational business acumen is negative value.
Why not hire another high dollar lawyer? It’s not like Trump is paying for them with his own money.
I was hoping to read about actual musical lawyers, like Randy Rainbow but with law degrees.
SIGH.
@Moosebreath:
The GA trial may legitimately not begin till after the election due to the complexity of RICO cases. Willis is currently pressing a RICO case around a Rapper, Young Thug, the pretrial proceedings have been going on for 18 months and the trial isn’t scheduled to start till sometime in the Fall.
@Kathy: The 6 degrees of Trump.
THE REPUBLICANS LIKE TO QUOTE RONALD REGAN,WHAT WOULD HE THINK OF THIS BUNCH?