Trump can't hang on to lawyers after false election claims

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump spent much of his career deploying high-powered lawyers to do his bidding. Now he is having trouble finding top-tier help when he might need it most.

Since losing the November election to President Joe Biden, Trump has been hemorrhaging attorneys. Established firms backed away from his baseless claims of election fraud. Those he did retain made elementary errors in cases that were quickly rejected as meritless. His personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was ridiculed for his performance before a federal judge during one election-related case.

His legal options contesting the election exhausted, Trump still needed a team to represent him in his historic second impeachment trial on a charge that he incited the deadly Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot. A team of South Carolina lawyers was retained, then backed out, so Trump was left with a lawyer from Pennsylvania and another from Alabama, giving them only days to prepare.

High-profile clients are typically strong pulls for ambitious lawyers, but Trump’s rocky relationships with his attorneys show the limits of taking on cases with dubious merits. His allegations of fraud were rejected by courts, his attorney general and other prominent Republicans.

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-lawyers-dddccaa09cfaf5aded0baa963c1f6ce1

The fact that he tends to be a dead beat is another disincentive to work for him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Even aside from the fact that he tends not to pay his lawyers,

he wants them to lie for him. If a lawyer lies to a court, he's in jeopardy of losing his license; the possibility of maybe not being paid combined with maybe being disbarred tends to be a disincentive for lawyers to want to represent Trump.

[Blue Owl]

2. Few things stick to a greasy turd