Today we're going to talk about Trump's threats to the legal community and the implications

for the rest of us. And I've got two interviews. I speak with Congressman Jamie Raskin about

Trump targeting him by trying to withdraw Biden's pardons for all members of the January 6th

committee. And I sit down with Potsave America's John Lovett to discuss Elon playing the victim

over vandalism of Tesla's. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

So Trump is doing something right now that he knows is going to fly under the radar,

but will have massive, massive implications.

He's begun extorting law firms,

wherein he threatens the lawyer's ability to work within the government.

He intimidates their clientele.

He risks their reputation.

Unless those firms decide to bend the knee and do what a firm, for example, called Paul Weiss opted to do, which is to offer $40 million in legal services to conservative

causes that Trump approves of.

This is, for all intents and purposes, an extortion racket. And of course, the cop on

this beat normally would be the Department of Justice, which under Pam Bondi will never

investigate this, meaning basically that Trump gets to do it. But Paul Weiss wasn't without options.

Trump also attacked another firm called Perkins Cooey, which opted not to bend the knee

and instead sued Trump in court. They decided to put their values ahead of a strong man's desire

to force his opponents into submission. And so I bring this up for a specific reason. It's not necessarily

to pick on Paul Weiss. Paul Weiss doesn't care what some YouTuber thinks about them. And I'm sure

that they've heard from their own clients who actually pay their bills.

And that probably stings a lot more than anything that I could say.

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