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“I fear that if he loses the presidential election in 2020, there will never be a peaceful transition of power.” Michael Cohen; closing statement to Congress.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/27/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-oversight-committee-russia/index.html


What type of lawyer would chose to be associated with Donald Trump? This discussion with friends yesterday was prompted by one noting that Rudy Giuliani's looking remarkably like Simon Bar Sinister. I noted that his sidekick Sidney Powell looks and acts like Simon's sidekick, Cad. (This is not related to my having been the underdog in a couple of my boxing matches.)

What rock did Powell come out from under, my friend asked. She has had a curious career, I said. She was appointed to serve as an assistant federal attorney fresh out of law school. Some in the legal field assumed she got this position by being a talented lawyer, though others came to suspect it was a result of assuming other positions. Bitter that she wasn't appointed to the federal bench, Powell went on to take the position of a defense attorney for some of the Enron scum.

In that position, Powell's vile attacks were directed towards Andrew Weissmann. Then she wrote her non-best seller, "License to Lie," a title that sounds a tad prophetic now. Like Rudy, she has faced consequences for her role in attempting to overthrow our government. Like Rudy and Michael Cohen, that includes the suspension of her license to practice law.

Cohen had represented Trump's business dealings with organized crime before Donald became president. This included coordinating efforts with Rudy, who had close ties in New York City with organized crime. But unlike Rudy or Sidney, Cohen would attempt to redeem himself, and warned about the potential for an insurrection when Biden crushed Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

John Eastman's history includes clerking for Clarence Thomas. He ran for Congress in California in 1990, getting less than 40% of the vote, then went on to lose the republican primary for the California Attorney General, getting less that 35% of the vote. Eastman has been a rabid opponent of same-sex marriage, in his position with the Federalist Society.

John's willingness to spread any lie came to the surface in his Newsweek op-ed of August 12, 2020, when he claimed that Kamala Harris was not an American citizen, and thus disqualified for being vice president. He is gutter slime.
https://www.newsweek.com/some-questions-kamala-harris-about-eligibility-opinion-1524483

Two lawyers that I think are institutionalists associated with Trump are Pat Cipollone and Ty Cobb. I view Pat as an egghead with an impressive yolk of knowledge, thus making Cobb the walrus. I do note that in the past two weeks, Cobb has said that he thinks Trump commited crimes associated with the insurrection, and should be prosecuted. Though I do not agree with their work to defend Trump during his presidency, I do respect both as capable lawyers. But they knew he was a criminal, and in "protecting the office of the presidency," failed the nation by not speaking out honestly.

That leaves the one I consider a bit of a wild card, Eric Herschmann. In much of his legal career, he represented the energy corporation Souther Union Company, and Citibank. When he became one of Trump's legal team during the first impeachment trial, I was reminded of James Baker, the energy corporation lawyer closely associated with the Bush family. Back in this form's early years, we used to discuss how individuals associated with politically powerful corporations at times stepped out from behind the curtain, sometimes to provide a degree of stability to a damaged administration, such as George W. Bush's. Energy corporations, including international ones, desire a stable US government, no matter how incompetent it is on a variety of domestic issues.

Might this in part explain what Sidney Powell, in her only true statement in decades, said that Herschmann held Trump in contempt? Certainly, the clips that the J6 Committee has aired show utter contempt for thr Rudy-Sidney-Eastman types -- including Jeffrey Clark, the anti-environmental attorney who had argued that the EPA could not set limits on enegy corporations' carbon emissions. While he played a role of slime in the attack on Hunter Biden, and deserves zero respect for remaining silent at the time, at least he refused to join the effort to overthrow our government.