'Irreparable breakdown': Trump campaign law firm suddenly retreats from years-long case

[Tom of Temecula]

A longstanding legal firm serving former President Donald Trump's campaign and businesses is seeking to withdraw from a lengthy case because of “irreparable breakdown in the attorney-client relationship,” according to a new report and court records.

The firm LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Rosen, Kittridge, Carlin and McPartland on Friday requested to remove itself from a lawsuit filed by a campaign surrogate who said the campaign sidelined her in 2016 after she revealed she was pregnant, the New York Times was first to report.

"The timing of the motion was notable," the Times notes, "just two days after the same federal court had ordered the campaign to turn over in discovery all complaints of sexual harassment and gender or pregnancy discrimination from the 2016 and 2020 campaigns — materials that the defendants have long resisted handing over."

The surrogate, A. J. Delgado, is representing herself and objected to the withdrawal in a filing Monday, arguing it should not be allowed until the discovery process has been completed and calling the request a “scheme to avoid compliance," the Times reports. Delgado made headlines in 2022 when she accused longtime Trump aide and political confidante Jason Miller of engaging in "a cycle of sexual coercion, rape, sexual assault, abuse, battery, sexual harassment, and sex trafficking."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firm/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Re the cartoon, tRump is digging his own grave. It will exhaust him and he will lie & lie in it

(though in the toon he is not lying, he's going through lawyers)

Also, something tRump doesn't need after the E. Jean Carroll cases is another sex scandal even if peripheral.

[jaxexpat]

3. So,

If I get this right, they're engineering their client's renown inability to work amicably with his legal counsel into an excuse to quit the case. This action, at this moment in the proceedings, will turn their losing case into a winning one for their client's interests. I wonder how that sounds. I go up to my boss and say, "I could really make this project work for you if you fired me". I ain't no lawyer but I'm pretty sure that ain't legal. Wonder if there's a judge who would agree.

[Hugin]

5. Ah, the old "You can't sue me because I don't have a lawyer" defense.

Clever, very clever.



But…. It’s Trump, every delay is a win. Not that something like this would result in a delay for 99.98% of the rest of us.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Either 1) they find his actions indefensible, or 2) he's refusing to pay them.

[dchill]

8. They don't find his actions indefensible...

...UNTIL he refuses to pay them.

[malaise]

6. Rec for the content

and the cartoon😂😂

[lindysalsagal]

7. I'm only surprised that anyone reps him at all.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

9. How they said "He's stiffing us!" without saying "He's stiffing us". n/t