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Trump scrambles to find lawyer on eve of first federal court appearance (wapo.st)

submitted 1 year ago by nhgeek@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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In familiar predicament for famously challenging client, multiple Florida lawyers decline to take Trump’s case, people familiar with the matter say.

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[–] SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

They feds gave him a massive amount of opportunity to remedy the issue and has not been charged at all in any way for anything that he gave back. It's only the stuff that he retained after over a year of lying and refusing for which he's being charged. They practically broke their backs twisting around and trying to be as accommodating as possible to give him every possible chance, vastly vastly more patience than if literally anybody else on the planet had done the same, and still he didn't hand it back.

Imagine if he walked out of Target with a TV he didn't pay for, but instead of tackling him or grabbing it they sat there watching as he loaded into is car. They sent him letters as he had people over and told everyone that he got it for free.

Seriously, Trump had classified marking envelopes on display at the bar in Mar-a-lago. We know for a fact he was showing documents to people like the Discord guy. He stole nuclear secrets. He stole national defense information. None of the crimes he's been charged with even require the documents to be explicitly classified, it's enough that the sensitive nature of the documents is sufficient to make possessing them a crime. And yet he kept them by the shitter.