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Trump complains about 'overpaid' lawyers and sets limits on what they can charge: report

Kathleen Culliton
February 12, 2024 11:41AM ET

Former President Donald Trump often complains that the massive legal team he's assembled to bring him through four criminal and two civil cases are overpaid, according to a new report.

Some of Trump's lawyers were told not to charge more than $750 an hour after his political advisers blanched at their bills, the Washington Post reported Monday.

Their demanding client is loath to take advice and bad news from his cases sometimes spurs him to change his story, sources told the Post.

“That’s the biggest issue of representing him," said a person who has worked with Trump in the past. "It’s impossible to get him to agree to a unified set of facts."

Not only are these attorneys faced with the unprecedented situation of having a former president as a client, they're also trying to work with one on the campaign trail, the Post notes.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lawyers-2667263240/

"It’s impossible to get him to agree to a unified set of facts."

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:21 pm

"It’s impossible to get him to agree to a unified set of facts."

This should be a much bigger deal than it is.

Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:38 pm Funny that turnip complains about the cost of lawyers when he doesn't pay them at all. It's all grifted from supporters and they're paid through the PACs.

noblepa wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:58 pm

Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:38 pm Funny that turnip complains about the cost of lawyers when he doesn't pay them at all. It's all grifted from supporters and they're paid through the PACs.

Yes, but he considers PAC money to be _his_ money. Any PAC money that isn't paid to the lawyers will somehow find its way into his own pockets, or those of one of his companies. Same thing.

"It’s impossible to get him to agree to a unified set of facts."

Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:53 pm There are reports that years ago, he attorneys decided they always had to meet with him in pairs in order to witness what was said.

Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:53 pm There are reports that years ago, he attorneys decided they always had to meet with him in pairs in order to witness what was said.

Trump's Lawyer: We Met With Him In Pairs To Avoid Lies
"Donald says certain things and then has a lack of memory."

In a deposition under oath taken in 1993, one of Donald Trump’s lawyers said they always tried to meet with him in pairs “because Donald says certain things and then has a lack of memory.”

much ado wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 4:02 pm

noblepa wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:58 pm

Rolodex wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:38 pm Funny that turnip complains about the cost of lawyers when he doesn't pay them at all. It's all grifted from supporters and they're paid through the PACs.

Yes, but he considers PAC money to be _his_ money. Any PAC money that isn't paid to the lawyers will somehow find its way into his own pockets, or those of one of his companies. Same thing.

That is exactly right.

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:12 pm

My sister suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s. She was part of that study for the drug that recently got approved by the FDA. She was in the thick of it when Trump first gave the man, woman camera speech. She said that as part of the study, she had to take the test every couple of weeks. Sometimes she could pass it and sometimes she couldn’t. But she thought he was a fucking idiot for thinking it’s any measure of intelligence or mental acuity.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:20 am
On the fraud trial. He’s losing it.

On the fraud trial again, wide ranging grievances.

Tristan Snell @TristanSnell wrote: Imagine paying your own wife to speak at your own rally

The decision on who will deliver the response rests with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

A source familiar with the planning of the State of the Union address said there has been no outreach by the Trump campaign to those planning the GOP rebuttal.

Johnson and McConnell’s offices declined to comment.

“There are no plans at this time” for him to deliver the Republican response, one senior Trump aide said on the condition of anonymity because discussions on the topic have been private.

There’s no question the slot would solidify the public impression that Trump has locked down his party’s nomination. And it would give the former president valuable prime-time network coverage of a live speech that has been harder for him to come by in his third bid for the Oval Office.

But the risks are significant, and could outweigh the potential benefits.

“It just didn’t make any sense to me, and that’s what I told him,” said one Republican lawmaker. “I genuinely got the sense there was not a lot of interest there to begin with.”

Grant Stern  @grantstern wrote: Donald Trump just revealed his entire legal strategy in a 20-second sound bite in front of the Manhattan courthouse on his way to a preliminary hearing in his upcoming criminal trial.

"WE WANT DELAYS, OBVIOUSLY."

#thursdayvibes: Coming soon to a courthouse near you.

Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski wrote: He posts this after spending all day in court on his indictment for paying off a porn star.