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The New York Times reports:
Seated far to the left of the defendant, former President Donald J. Trump, in a Manhattan criminal courtroom on Tuesday was a lawyer who has never tried a case in court, whose phone was seized by federal agents executing a warrant last year, and who once hosted syndicated news segments bombastically defending the Trump White House. Seated to Mr. Trump’s far right was Todd Blanche, a newly hired criminal defense lawyer who also represents the lawyer at the far-left end of the table, Boris Epshteyn.
In between them was Joe Tacopina, a combative presence on cable television. His lawyers’ own foibles are seldom disqualifying, so long as they defend him in the manner he desires. That often means measuring up to the example of Roy M. Cohn, Mr. Trump’s first fixer-lawyer, who represented him in the 1970s and early 1980s. Mr. Cohn, whose background included being indicted himself and who was eventually disbarred, earned a reputation for practicing with threats, scorched-earth attacks and media manipulation.
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Trump paid lawyers “at least $10 million…over the prior two years using money donated to his political action committee. The fact that he was not personally on the hook for the money seemed to make Mr. Trump even more impulsive in his hiring of lawyers…” https://t.co/Es5OiAv6dy
— Peter Elkind (@peterelkind) April 9, 2023
Trump’s lawyers, from Roy Cohn to Rudy to Bobb to Tacopina here, and everyone in between, have certainly been an interesting cast of characters. pic.twitter.com/7M1jbYHLZ5
— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) April 8, 2023
As a reminder, Trump was close with Roy Cohn, who got away with it for decades — until he didn’t. Then Cohn died abandoned and alone. And I’m sure Trump has always feared, for good reason, he would one day face the same fate. https://t.co/XhFlx34rAB
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) April 4, 2023
Lawyers for Donald Trump — hired sometimes after only brief phone calls — can come and go, as he demands they defend him first in the court of public opinion.
“He picks his lawyers literally off of TV,” said one attorney who used to represent Trump. https://t.co/oMVgEbSOcS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 8, 2023
A reminder, Joseph McCarthy’s legal thug, the guy who used unethical means to force dubious information out of people, was Roy Cohn.
Roy Cohn was Trump’s mentor. https://t.co/bWlMZD2WpF
— MichaelKuhl (@MichaelKuhl) April 7, 2023
Joseph McCarthy (here with aide Roy Cohn) was confronted by US Army counsel Joseph Welch (“Have you no sense of decency?”) 65 years ago today: pic.twitter.com/omcheYT8GO
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 9, 2019