Trump lawyer: Obeying his orders will get you 'sanctioned and disbarred'

An unnamed lawyer working for former President Donald Trump has been spilling some dirt about his client to New York Magazine's Ankush Khardori -- and he says that obeying Trump's commands is a surefire way to end your legal career.

In an interview, the attorney in question explains the dangers of agreeing to work for Trump and not being prepared to push back against his wilder ideas.

"He gets these lawyers who just want to be part of that Trump world,” the attorney explained. “The ones who say ‘yes’ to everything, who will get sanctioned and get disbarred, who go to courts claiming election fraud that doesn’t exist, or who get put in a difficult position."

This attorney said that they personally had avoided that pitfall and had still managed to do their job in providing the former president with competent legal defense.

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Elsewhere in Khardori's article, he delved into the reasons that Trump hasn't been able to attract top-notch legal talent to defend him in the multiple legal probes he now faces.

"One reason... is that Trump is cheap and has apparently been reluctant to spend the sort of money his legal circumstances would seem to demand," he writes. "Another is that he seems to have a high tolerance for chaos and dysfunction and perhaps even enjoys being able to shuffle lawyers around based on his whims, however unwise it may ultimately be."

Trump currently faces a slew of legal problems, including a civil lawsuit over allegedly fraudulent business practices from New York Attorney General Letitia James; criminal charges related to his hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels; two different investigations into his efforts to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden; and an investigation into his decision to stash top-secret government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Trump was also recently found liable for sexually abusing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll.