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Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
3. I don't understand how any of those with a professional career would put their reputation
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:59 AM
Jul 2020

on the line for Trump. You have lost all credibility when you make those stupid and horrendous arguments that the Trump administration is making in court. It makes zero sense as an argument in court. That's going to leave a mark in your career. Who is going to believe and hire you for any work as a lawyer?

A HERETIC I AM

(24,368 posts)
5. HA HA HA HA!!! You said Sekulow had a professional career!!
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 11:18 AM
Jul 2020


Stop it! PLEASE! YOU'RE KILLING ME!!!


Jay Sekulow is to professional lawyering what Dominoes is to a New York Pizza shop.

They just don't fit anywhere NEAR the same box.

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
9. Sekulow is a pissy little wannabe who made his 'fame'
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:14 PM
Jul 2020

telling small school school boards that it was perfectly OK to teach Xian religion classes in school because 'he'd defend them'. He's a crazy fundie evangelical who (along with his whole family) enthusiastically adopted the Hawaiian Missionaries Evangelizing motto: "They came to do good and they did well".

JHB

(37,160 posts)
10. Sekulow's "professional reputation" was lawyering for Evangelical causes
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:15 PM
Jul 2020

He's even head of a legal group that picked its name to make a play on the initials of the ACLU, just so fundys could snicker at the dig.

Among his usual clients, his reputation will fare just fine.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
17. Yes, and he may be earning points with bigger players.
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:50 PM
Jul 2020

What happens to Fox/CNN's Kayleigh McEnany after she finishes up this disgusting gig betraying her nation and every principle she should have, but presumably not every valuable connection she does? Is she crazy-self destructive or does she have a bright, "successful" future ahead, full of friends and admirers?

PatSeg

(47,427 posts)
13. I was wondering the same thing
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:35 PM
Jul 2020

Though I wonder how on earth he ever got through law school in the first place. Maybe he hired Joe Shapiro to take his tests for him.

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
6. Oh, was Sekulow the president's lawyer on this?
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 11:20 AM
Jul 2020

I really appreciate Jay. Listening to his radio show as he does everything in his power to twist whatever topic it is to a religious right-wing viewpoint keeps me awake during long car trips - either by laughing or getting mad at his absurdity.

TlalocW

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
14. No. His job was to keep the prosecutors from getting their hands on these documents. He failed
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:40 PM
Jul 2020

Trump and his people couldn't care less if this stuff gets released before November - at least not because they think it will affect the outcome of the election. They don't want the prosecutors to get their hands on them. They failed.

Release of these documents before the election wouldn't change a single vote. It would, however, cause a lot of confusion as Democrats combed through every page and Trump, McEnerny, and his surrogates through sand in everyone's faces to confuse the issue for the majority of us who can't figure out very complicated tax records.

maxsolomon

(33,337 posts)
16. They have to turn them over now?
Thu Jul 9, 2020, 12:48 PM
Jul 2020

The little I saw on the Tee Vee this morning said it would push it out past the election. Where upon he'll pay a fine for Tax Fraud and die tweeting on a gold toilet.

So you're right; these returns won't change a vote. The votes that could change still are the low-information flibberdigibbets and they won't understand.

Heading to Eeyore's Gloomy Place.

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