Inside Trump's Frantic Hunt for 'Killer' Criminal Defense Attorneys
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Source: Rolling Stone
Trumps conversations with Parlatore and other newly retained lawyers are part of his broader push to assemble yet another new legal team, both for his current legal woes and for any future ones coming from the FBI and Biden-era DOJ. Throughout the summer, Trump has been quizzing confidants on what they think of specific criminal defense lawyers, throwing out a number of names both big and obscure. In other words, as one Trump advisor describes it, the ex-president is conducting the Apprentice: Avoid-Federal-Prison Edition.
Mondays FBI raid of Trumps Mar-a-Lago will likely intensify that search, as the Justice Department broadens and accelerates its investigations into Trump, his team and close associates, and their efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election. The federal search of the twice-impeached leader of the GOPs Florida estate, however, appears connected to an investigation into Trumps retention of classified materials and sensitive presidential documents. The U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Florida didnt respond to a request for comment on the raid, as the former president and his team described it.
In recent years, Parlatore has represented retired Navy SEAL and accused war criminal Eddie Gallagher, when Navy prosecutors accused him of committing war crimes in the killing of a 17-year-old ISIS fighter. A military jury rejected murder charges against Gallagher but instead convicted him on one count of illegally posing for a photo with the corpse. Trump intervened in Gallaghers favor when the Navy tried to take away his Trident pin a symbol of his membership in the SEALs as a result of the conviction, and the then-president ultimately granted clemency to Gallagher along with pardoning two other service members accused or convicted of war crimes.
Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jan-6-attorneys-eddie-gallagher-tim-parlatore-1393964/
Deminpenn
(15,290 posts)or at least he did in front of the J6 committee where Mastriano answered no questions and walked out after 15 minutes.
Buckeyeblue
(5,501 posts)DT don't pay. Ever. He's probably asking them to pay...It's an honor to represent him, you know.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)radical noodle
(8,013 posts)After all, his budget is already stretched thin from the purchase of golden toilets and such. He shouldn't be expected to use the money he raised begging for money for his legal defense for something like paying his attorneys.
Perhaps he's promising a Medal of Freedom or a cabinet post in his next administration in exchange for legal fees?
EarthFirst
(2,904 posts)as in: project the total cost of representing TFG as your retainer; thats the only way youll end up compensated.
Omaha Steve
(99,708 posts)Analysis and speculation.
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