Lawyers: Donald Trump Jr. Is Getting Terrible Legal Advice

[babylonsister]

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Lawyers: Donald Trump Jr. Is Getting Terrible Legal Advice
Career prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys are aghast at the behavior of the president’s eldest son—who appears determined to make matters worse.
Betsy Woodruff
07.11.17 1:00 AM ET


The legal advice—or lack thereof—that Donald Trump Jr. is getting has criminal defense attorneys scratching their heads and suspecting he’s making matters worse for himself.

Over the course of the 48-hour period in which he found himself at the center of the Russia investigation, the president’s oldest son was either receiving terrible legal advice, ignoring good legal advice, or not getting any legal advice at all, according to the estimation of career attorneys. And the damage he did to himself in that window of time could dog him for months.

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Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, told The Daily Beast that Don Jr.’s comment wasn’t very smart.

“He’s stupid for saying what he said about why he took the meeting,” said Mariotti, who now does criminal defense work at Thompson Coburn.

“It’s very hard for me to believe that any lawyer would advise him to make a public statement containing factual assertions about what happened in a meeting with an agent of the Russian government,” he added. “What’s more likely is that Donald Trump Jr. spoke without consulting legal counsel.”

It was also deeply unwise for him to speak for himself, according to Scott Greenfield, a New York criminal defense attorney. Lawyers usually speak for their clients in these situations to keep them from saying something that could hurt them in court. That’s why Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn are keeping mum about the Russia probe: They have good lawyers and appear to be following their advice. Not so, at least over the weekend, for Don Jr.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/lawyers-donald-trump-jr-is-getting-terrible-legal-advice

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Junior should stop listening to Kellyanne and/or her husband.

[FM123]

2. Yep. Kellyanne's husband the lawyer also has Russian bribe ties.

[malaise]

3. Good

[BigmanPigman]

4. I heard this several times on the shows last night.

I think that perhaps he may not be listening to them. He doesn't seem to make good decisions and he has bad judgement too.

[Cosmocat]

5. He is trying to outdo Carter Page

as the second place winner for the award of biggest idiot in this tragic comedy (distant to first place winner Sr.)

[GeorgeGist]

6. The dunce doesn't fall far from ...

the stool.

[JoeStuckInOH]

7. I'm sure he's gettign fantastic legal advice... the best $ can buy.

Problem is, like daddy, he doesn't listen to the legal advice and does whatever he wants.

[babylonsister]

8. I think that's all relative. Fantastic legal advice...

opinions on that differ. Is a mob-connected lawyer all that great? I think it's poor optics at the very least, but I guarantee it's all expensive. The fact he needed to lawyer up at all speaks volumes.

[JoeStuckInOH]

10. I have a couple of friends who do a ton of real estate for an average person...

like maybe a dozen or two rental properties of various types. They are trustworthy people and longtime friends I grew up with... but not only are they lawyered up almost all the time, but they are some of the most insured people I know of. I'm relatively poor, own no other properties besides my own house and even I have the card of my lawyer in my wallet. Just in case, you never know... shut up, don't talk to cops, and call a lawyer. Can't be too careful these days.

I wouldn't begrudge or judge anyone with significant assets who decides to lawyer as guilty simply for seeing a lawyer. I'll bet Donnie and sons have dozens of lawyers on retainer and have for years. Shit, I'll be Barron Trump has one or two lawyers already

[Achilleaze]

9. Come clean, Junior. Take a truth bath.

It would do you and the whole freaking anti-America KGOP Klan a world of good. Your alleged daddy - the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief - has shamed himself and the nation with his greed, his lies, his cheating, his piggery, and his treason.

Now is the time for you to step out of the republican cesspool, and bathe yourself in the light of truth.