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(Salon) Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are "starting to turn on each other" over growing concerns that one of them could be a "snitch," according to The Daily Beast.
Five sources with direct knowledge of the situation told the outlet that clashing personalities and the threat that they could face legal jeopardy themselves has "sown deep divisions that have only worsened in recent months." Attorney Tim Parlatore left the team earlier this month after throwing another member of Trump's team, Boris Ephsteyn, under the bus but sources told the outlet his departure may only be the beginning.
"There's a lot of lawyers and a lot of jealousy," a member of Trump's legal team told The Daily Beast, adding that the number of lawyers representing a single client accused of so many crimes is unprecedented.
As special counsel Jack Smith's team targets multiple Trump attorneys in his investigations, Trump's lawyers "seem to be questioning whether their colleagues may actually turn into snitches," the report added.
Smith's team successfully pierced attorney-client privilege claims invoked by Trump attorney Evan Corcoran after arguing that the former president may have used his services to further a crime. Prosecutors interviewed Corcoran before a grand jury about topics he previously refused to discuss and obtained his notes about discussions with the former president. ...............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/30/its-crazy-in-there-knives-out-on-trumps-legal-team-over-worries-one-of-them-could-be-a-snitch/
Lovie777
(12,342 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,807 posts)With SC Jack Smith tightening the screws on TIFG and his legal team, it is now a matter of time when all the rats jump ship to save their own skins; lest they be charged as complicit accomplices in a conspiracy.
niyad
(113,589 posts)marmar
(77,092 posts)niyad
(113,589 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)niyad
(113,589 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)niyad
(113,589 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)niyad
(113,589 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,665 posts)Thank you!
niyad
(113,589 posts)brewens
(13,624 posts)them keep operating for years. Now so much shit is stacked up, how you build a good defense. I'd say get as much money as you can out of him and blow the whistle!
tanyev
(42,627 posts)Darkly funny.
EYESORE 9001
(25,989 posts)Although I found it hard to buy Steve Buscemi as Krushchev.
tanyev
(42,627 posts)agingdem
(7,862 posts)jealousy because a couple of Trump's third tier park bench lawyers had the balls to bail..or jealousy because they aren't Trump's "favorite"?...
Irish_Dem
(47,475 posts)What did it mean.
lpbk2713
(42,768 posts)They're eating their own.
I love it.
calimary
(81,518 posts)Let em eat their own.
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)or his fat fingers off the phone screen.
Takket
(21,635 posts)A snitch is a lawyer that (whoops!) actually has ethical standards and is not willing to cover up drumpfs crimes for him.
Its almost like making a legal team out of unethical, fame hungry lawyers who are willing to commit crimes for drumpf so they can have a bit of the MAGA Apple is a BAD idea.
H2O Man
(73,626 posts)a lawyer who has been informed that they are in legal jeapardy due to past actions with the defendent that are considered criminal. It would be unethical for a lawyer to be an informant under other circumstances regarding the defendent's past crimes.
usonian
(9,908 posts)Just Andropov,
You're the worst Zherkov ever.
waddirum
(979 posts)"Boris pissed off all the Florida lawyers. People are dropping like flies. Everybody hates him. He's a toxic loser. He's a complete psycho," a source told The Daily Beast. "He's got daddy issues, and Trump is his daddy."
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Yeah, every honest and ethical politician. You know, the boring ones who just get shit done.
Midnight Writer
(21,815 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)And he is the top dog in Trump's circle of lawyers.
Collimator
(1,639 posts)Given the low state of Trump's character, as well as his mediocre abilities, the people that he draws to himself would naturally reflect the same poor standards.
Tetrachloride
(7,876 posts)and spill some beans
Marcuse
(7,520 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,603 posts)Ya think??????
Warpy
(111,361 posts)who thinks he's qualified to write his own briefs. It's obvious that no one who stayed awake in law school and did his or her own work could possibly come up with the wording or the silly ideas behind it, it's all TFG.
And that is why it will be radioactive to their careers. He won't listen. He won't take advice. He thinks he is more qualified than they are. It all adds up to a legal team that comes off as both incompetent and delusional because that's what he is.
BumRushDaShow
(129,603 posts)so those who did, did so arrogantly and knowing full well what they were getting themselves into. This is why I am still SMDH at someone like Bruce Castor, who was once a GOP County Commissioner and the D.A. for Montgomery County, PA (a rim county to Philly and 3rd largest in terms of population, in the state), and even served as a Solicitor General under, and eventually temp Attorney General for PA for the elected (D) AG at the time Kathleen Kane (who later had to resign and served time in prison).
Castor was one of the lawyers during the 2nd impeachment -
First Deputy Attorney General Bruce L. Castor Jr. holds a news conference in Harrisburg the day after the conviction of state Attorney General Kathleen Kane on felony perjury and various misdemeanor charges, Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Castor will be sworn in as acting Attorney General to replace Kathleen Kane tomorrow. Dan Gleiter, PennLive.com
and his cousin, Steve, who was a GOP staffer for the House Oversight Committee under Issa, had worked during the 1st impeachment after Democrats took over the House (and Committee).
Stephen R. Castor, right, and then-House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) during a committee meeting on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress in 2012. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Pictured at left is GOP counsel Steve Castor and at right is Democrats' counsel Daniel Goldman.
I think some of them might fancy themselves becoming a famed mob lawyer in the future like a Roy Cohn.
ProfessorGAC
(65,219 posts)All those wonderful civic-minded patriots facing legal problems!
Grins
(7,238 posts)Well, whaddaya know
?
Maybe he is the best at something after all!
lindysalsagal
(20,740 posts)He's plainly been a criminal his whole life.
Kennah
(14,323 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)all along is rich, all right. If they were trustworthy and not "incredibly stupid," they wouldn't be there. Leaking, snitching, backstabbing have pretty much always been SOP for tRump's inners as they fight each other for position and survival.
I'm with those who assume their asses are already grass, even as they all hope desperately that they still have a secret worth trading.
FelineOverlord
(3,600 posts)NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)Hopefully when they don't get paid they'll all turn on Trump and reveal his secrets.