Four top law firms turned down requests to represent Trump
Top lawyers with at least four major law firms rebuffed White House overtures to represent President Trump in the Russia investigations, in part over concerns that the president would be unwilling to listen to their advice, according to five sources familiar with discussions about the matter.
A consistent theme, the sources said, was the concern about whether the president would accept the advice of his lawyers and refrain from public statements and tweets that have consistently undercut his position.
“The concerns were, ‘The guy won’t pay and he won’t listen,’” said one lawyer close to the White House who is familiar with some of the discussions between the firms and the administration, as well as deliberations within the firms themselves.
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Other factors, the lawyer said, were that it would “kill recruitment” for the firms to be publicly associated with representing the polarizing president and jeopardize the firms’ relationships with other clients.
Another lawyer briefed on some of the discussions agreed that the firms were worried about the reputational risk of representing the president. One issue that arose, this lawyer said, was “Do I want to be associated with this president and his policies?”
In addition, the lawyer said, there were concerns that if they took on the case, “Who’s in charge?” and “Would he listen?”
Both would he pay (considering he has been sued by at least 3 law firms for not paying his legal fees) and would he listen are both valid concerns. The first thing any good attorney would tell him is to stop tweeting. Period. And he would not be able to stop. He has become addicted, compulsive when it comes to tweeting.
The White House can't even get it's story about his tweeting straight. Kellyanne Conway said yesterday that the tweets are not official, are private thoughts and policy is the only thing that is official and then Sean Spicer told the Washington Press Corp today that they are the words of the President, so they are official and are to be taken as official.
Would you want to be know as "the firm that defended Trump"?
There were lawyers that defended Timothy McVeigh and Charles Manson but Trump can't find a lawyer to defend him because they don't want the bad reputation!