Donald Trump is 'Kryptonite' to lawyers: columnist
For the past year, legal analysts have joked that MAGA stands for "making attorneys get attorneys," a reference to the number of Donald Trump's lawyers who have also found themselves in legal trouble.
It was mere days ago it was reported Trump's ongoing problems to find a Florida lawyer that was willing to work for him.
“The problem is none of us want to work for the guy,” a federal criminal defense lawyer in the Southern District of Florida, who confessed he’d been contacted, told The Messenger.
“He’s a nightmare client.”
Those that were willing wanted their money upfront. Trump is known for not paying his legal fees. In fact, Trump has been accused of stiffing hundreds of people he's done business with, USA Today reported in 2016.
When Trump was arraigned in New York last month, MSNBC host Katie Phang walked through the line of lawyer losses.
Attorney Tim Parlatore recently quit. He went on CNN and attacked a number of Trump insiders for making his job impossible.
He then attackedJoe Tacopina, who later revealed he was taking "a step back." He lost the E. Jean Carroll case for Trump in May.
Evan Corcoran is the lead lawyer that managed to get himself tangled up in Trump's document mess. A grand jury moved to reveal his client's notes and a federal court approved it. The DOJ then used the notes as part of its probe into the document theft case.
Before that were Trump White House counselors Pat A. Cipollone and Don McGahn and deputy counsel Patrick Philbin. McGahn refused to carry Trump's water. He saved himself but was quickly removed from Trump world. The other two attorneys have been forced to testify before the grand jury.
Most notably, Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen was forced to serve time when he was ultimately blamed for Trump's hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Outside of the legal world, Trump's CFO, Allen Weisselberg, was recently released from Riker's Island Prison, where he served five months. He took the fall for a tax fraud scheme at the Trump Org. employees got under the table that wasn't being reported to the IRS.
Perhaps that's why Boston Globe writer Kimberly Atkins Stohr called Trump "Kryptonite" to attorneys.
"Trump has only himself to blame. He may think of himself as Teflon Don, but to prospective lawyers, he’s a kryptonite client," the article states. "As Senator Mitt Romney of Utah correctly noted, Trump brought these charges on himself by not only taking classified documents from the White House to his Florida Mar-a-Lago residence like they were some sort of keepsake tchotchkes but also by defiantly refusing to return them after being given multiple opportunities to do so."
Trump's lawyer Alina Habba claimed that reports that they can't find a lawyer are false. She told CBS News that there are lots of “people that would love to take this case." She went on to call him “the world’s most famous human being” and claimed working as his lawyer “catapults your career.”
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