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The Counsel

Note from Elie: All the Former President’s Lawyers

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Hope you all have a great Labor Day ahead, and it's been a great summer for all of you.

0:38.2

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1:01.1

As the summer draws to a close, we still don't know whether Donald Trump will someday be indicted.

1:12.0

It now seems more likely than when we held our Memorial Day barbecues, given the expansion of DOJ's January 6th investigation, which now finally appears to be focused on the real centers of power and not merely on the riffraff who physically stormed the Capitol, the sudden jolt of activity

1:16.8

from the Fulton County DA, after she waited a year and a half to seat a grand jury, and the unexpected

1:22.8

search of Mar-a-Lago for highly classified documents. In the face of these mounting pressures, Trump has

1:28.6

lawyered up, which is a smart move and his right. While he has survived thus far, largely in

1:34.2

spite of, rather than because of, his assorted bag of attorneys, the genuinely dreadful

1:39.4

lawyering around Trump will soon begin to take a more serious toll. It's never quite clear who exactly represents Trump on what at any given moment.

1:48.1

He has a track record of failing to pay his lawyers and otherwise falling out with them.

1:52.9

One former Trump attorney, Ty Cob, has been making the media rounds, declaring that his

1:56.9

former client should be investigated and likely will be indicted.

2:00.6

It's a questionable ethical move, by the way, for any lawyer to publicly slag a former client.

2:06.6

The lawyers for their part have suffered fates ranging from federal conviction and imprisonment,

2:10.7

Michael Cohen, to search warrants and pending investigations, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman,

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