It's a clickbaity title in a sense that Trusty already quit from his team in the documents case. It's not another lawyer quitting, but the same lawyer, it's just that this time he's quitting altogether from all other cases and any cooperation too.
I'm a union electrician in a red area, and it's so incredibly annoying to see trucks in the meeting parking lot decked out in Trump stickers.
Like, he literally scams contractors! Famously and as a matter of legal record! He specifically fucks YOU! If went out to lunch with him he would stick you with the bill and steal your wallet!
This is a huge case. It's going to take hundreds, if not thousands of billable hours. Any attorney that's competent that takes this case has to know that they're probably not going to see even a fraction of that money, meaning that they'll be without income for a long period of time. A competent attorney that's not ideologically motivated and independently wealthy is unlikely to be able to take the case. (An _in_competent attorney that doesn't realize this fact might take the case, and then not be allowed to withdraw from the case by the judge.)
Second, Trump has a history of running his mouth in public. The attorneys that are going to be defending him need to have national security clearances in order to be effective counsel. If Trump talks about the cases in public, he could cost his attorneys their security clearances, which would not only impede their ability to defend him, but could also prevent them from being able to defend similar clients in the future. If I was an attorney, that would be a really big fucking deal. Not only would I be unlikely to be get paid, but there would be a real risk that Trump could harm my ability to earn income in the future.
If I was a competent attorney with a track record of defending this kind of case, this case would be radioactive.
Lawyers can potentially get sanctioned for client conduct. I can see a potential problem if attorney are given access to classified information for defense prep, then Trump accesses the information, and then disseminates that information. It's a bit of a stretch, but given how bad Trump's behaviour has been, that's not a stretch I would ignore if I was an attorney.
I'd need a Real Attorney to chime in, but I think that, once you're actually in a trial, you can't dump your client without the permission from the judge. (You also can't intentionally stop providing your best service for any reason at all, not unless you want to be sanctioned or disbarred.) So while an attorney could insist on money up front, if the money they were paid didn't cover the real expenses, they could still end up getting stiffed. I suppose the 'smart' thing to do would be to have $100M put in an escrow account, and the money can only be released from the account if both parties agree. So if Trump tries to stiff you for the bill, he's still out the money since you don't have to release it back to him. Kinda like what The Silk Road used to do, only even shadier, since you'd be working for Trump.
I do not want to minimize that he is, in fact, a rapist, but rather to highlight our legal system's inadequacies: he has never been criminally convicted of sexual assault. He has been found civilly liable, which forces him to pay damages, but doesn't put him in jail.
You always want to see people get good counsel, as it protects against the defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel later. But it really would be hilarious if this was the case
Maybe for a normal case but for a case like his he'll probably get what would be equivalent to a public defender from your local jurisdiction in that they won't have time to check every box nor the expertise in this specific field.
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