Trump campaign punishes Don McGahn's law firm
Source: Politico
The Trump campaign has hired its own in-house attorney for its 2020 reelection bid shifting future business away from Jones Day, the law firm, that has represented Trump since his first run for president.
Campaign officials and advisers cast the decision to hire Nathan Groth a former lawyer for the Republican National Committee and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as a money-saving move, supported by the businessman-turned-president who loves to cut costs.
But close Trump advisers say the decision also stems from disappointment with the White Houses former top attorney and current Jones Day partner, Don McGahn, whose behavior has irked the president and some of his family members.
Taking business away from Jones Day is payback, these advisers say, for McGahns soured relationship with the Trump family and a handful articles in high-profile newspapers that the family blames, unfairly or not, on the former White House counsel.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/19/trump-campaign-mcgahn-1283545
The subheadline on this article:
'Why in the world would you want to put your enemy on the payroll?' said one adviser close to the White House.
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)sarabelle
(453 posts)Trump's vindictiveness usually helps its object.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)such a blessing not to work for a deranged criminal and then not get stiffed for your fees.
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,038 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Firestorm49
(4,030 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Once the rest of the crap is exposed, the new law firm will wish they had steered clear of this toxic orange ass. He did McGahn's law firm a favoir, they are off the hook for any further headaches which result is protecting this mad man.
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)This is a guy who can testify or go public and pose an existential threat to Trump.
Petty vindictiveness in this is boneheaded.