Trump Lawyers Are Preparing Defense For Likely Criminal Charges

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/08/trump-lawyers-are-preparing-defense-2

Trump Lawyers Are Preparing Defense For Likely Criminal Charges
Trump’s team has discussed strategies that involve shifting blame from Trump to his advisors for the efforts to overturn the election.
By Susie Madrak — August 1, 2022


Trump’s lawyers are preparing a legal defense against possible criminal charges from the Justice Department, reportedly anxious that he will be prosecuted for his role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Via Rolling Stone:

Members of the ex-president’s legal team have already begun brainstorming strategy and potential defenses, according to three people familiar with the matter and written communications reviewed by Rolling Stone. Trump himself has been briefed on potential legal defenses on at least two occasions this summer, two of the sources say.

That effort intensified after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s June testimony before the House committee investigating Jan. 6.

“Members of the Trump legal team are quietly preparing, in the event charges are brought,” says one person familiar with the situation. “It would be career malpractice not to. Do the [former] president’s attorneys believe everything Cassidy said? No … Do they think the Department of Justice would be wise to charge him? No. But we’ve gotten to a point where if you don’t think criminal charges are at least somewhat likely, you are not serving the [former] president’s best interests.”

Strategies under discussion? Blame someone else. Sounds like they'd try to pin it all on Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman:

In their preparations, Trump’s team has discussed strategies that involve shifting blame from Trump to his advisors for the efforts to overturn the election, per the three sources, reflecting a broader push to find a fall fall-guy — or fall-guys. “Trump got some terrible advice from attorneys who, some people would argue, should have or must have known better,” says one of the sources with knowledge of recent discussions in Trumpland. “An ‘advice of counsel’ defense would be a big one.”

Oh, and his legal team knows they're going to need a big name if he's charged:

If the Justice Department does come with charges, Trump’s current team has acknowledged they would have to bring on more legal firepower to handle the historic legal defense. “You’d need to have a real heavyweight at the top [of the legal team] for something like that, but right now nobody knows who that would be,” one Trump adviser says.

I hear Alan Dershowitz is moping around Martha's Vineyard with nothing to do...

[Ladythatvotesblue]

1. Defense for Trump

There is none. They better ask for their atty fees now. Otherwise I think they will get cheated out of it, If your defending Trump I guess you will get what you deserve!

[PortTack]

2. Yeah good luck with defending your pro bono client against the air tight case Garland will file

[Botany]

4. And don't forget that Fulton County, Georgia D.A. Fani Willis has dotted all her I.s and crossed ...

all her T.s too.

[PortTack]

5. Yes yes yes! I have high hopes for that case too. It would be pardon proof!

[Botany]

7. She has both Trump and Lindsey on tape asking Georgia's Sec. of State or the Sec. of State's ....

... attorney asking that they commit felonies.

Trump 2 times:
"Can you just find me 11,780 votes?"
"Just say that there is doubt about the results because big things are gonna happen on Jan. 6th."

Graham:
Asking the Sec. of State to "set aside" all the mail in votes from Fulton, County.

If I called you and asked you to rob the Central Bank on 123 Smith Street tomorrow @
2 PM that would be a felony and both Trump and Graham deserve a public trial for doing
the same sort of thing in their calls to Georgia.

[PortTack]

8. I would relish seeing little lindsey go down as well!

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Give it to Rudy. He'll get the death penalty for sure.

Even if the possible sentences don't call for it.

[louis-t]

6. Who would agree to "represent" that moron?

He doesn't listen and he doesn't pay. That leaves out any law firm that could actually have a chance of winning his case. So he will lose, they will get the blame and not get paid, and will only get negative coverage.

[MissMillie]

9. So, he gets two different sets of advice and CHOOSES to listen to the advice of the whackos

AZ Secretary of State tells him there's no fraud
GA Secretary of State tells him there's no fraud
Chris Krebbs (DHS Director of Cybersecurity and Elections) tells him... secure election
Bill Barr tells him the fraud claims are "bullsh*t"
His own White House Counsel told him that what he was planning for 1/6 wouldn't stand up to legal muster.

He chose to ignore the truth...

Angels on one shoulder, demons on the other. He went with the demons. (I mean, he always has, so nothing new there.)