Frog seeks to withdraw from carrying scorpion across river
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Trusty has stopped trusting Trump, but I wouldn't ever trust him since he ever trusted Trump.
@Popehat have you ever seen this sort of thing before?
@Shinydan @Popehat it’s pretty nuts lawyers don’t want to represent a former POTUS and active candidate— normally these would be career highlights I would think
@Techronic9876 @Shinydan @Popehat its worse then you think. Remember the heritage foundation helped him get elected in exchange for supreme court pick from there lists. They are the largest group of conservative lawyers, and they are ghosting him.
@Techronic9876 @Shinydan @Popehat I guess they know the case is so clear and he is digging his own grave so hard that it would be career suicide, it's like "omg, this guy was dumb enough to take a case everyone knew they would lose, how desperate must he be?"
@Popehat You could tell by the Trusty-shaped hole in the courtroom wall.
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If Trump's attorney withdraws, does that mean more billable hours for his attorney's attorney?
@Popehat , he's getting out while the getting is good.
@Dr_Elizabeth97 @Popehat Not necessarily good, but before it gets a lot worse.
@Popehat Which lawsuit is this one? I can't keep up, Could someone please make an Excel spreadsheet?😂 🤣
@echuta @Popehat
Excel spreadsheet? We need a conspiracy board!
@echuta @Popehat The one where the guy who constantly accuses any rando he doesn't like of being a woke Marxist mutant pedophile Nazi is suing CNN for saying mean things about him.
Lawyer splits with Trump in CNN case, citing 'irreconcilable differences'

A lawyer who resigned last week from defending Donald Trump in the criminal case over his handling of classified documents said in a court filing Friday that “irreconcilable differences” have left him unable to represent the former president in an unrelated defamation lawsuit against CNN.

Reuters

@funcrunch
My God that Wikipedia page. Thank you!

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@echuta
Bahahaha, "This page has multiple issues." you think?

My eye caught on one lawsuit: English vs. Trump

I neither know nor care what it's really about; in my head-canon even our language is tired of his shit.
@funcrunch @Popehat

@DelilahTech @echuta @funcrunch @Popehat you have to be very very wrong for the English language to draw the line.
@funcrunch @echuta @Popehat I wonder if there's also a list of all the laws that have been created specifically in response to Trump's activities? It seems like the NY State law for access to tax documents would be on that list.
@Popehat Time for Krusty to take over.
@hettwolf @Popehat - Or their twin brother, Musty.
@MrShoggoth @hettwolf @Popehat contacted on the high plains of #Colorado attorney Dusty esq commented; "I wouldn't touch that buffalo pie with his mom's 10 foot pole!"

@Popehat In his defense, if he's gonna keep his good name, he's gotta bail now.

(... that name of course being "Trusty.")

@mtomczak @Popehat He was probably hired because of his name, for the influence potential. The first step in protecting his name, however, would be not accepting the job in the first place.
@Popehat irreconcilable differences = the check bounced.
@Popehat “You knew I was a scorpion when the check bounced.”
@Popehat Does irreconcilable differences mean the lawyer isn’t getting paid?
@randylea @Popehat Or maybe Trump insisted he do something illegal.
@randylea @Popehat *prosecutable. I'm sure it just being illegal wasn't enough by itself.
@Popehat irreconcilable differences includes not paying the bill, right?

@kevin @Popehat

Oddly, not necessarily. If the lawyer is not put to an unreasonable financial hardship by virtue of the client not paying, the client not paying is not, by itself, sufficient grounds to grant a withdrawal motion. If your client just flat-out will not take your advice and insist on pursuing a legal option you are certain will damage their position, that would be grounds.

@Popehat

Excellent caption to the document you wrote there.

Maybe one day Trusty will write a book.

@Popehat “if you can’t trust us you can’t be trusty” #CB4
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"Well, your honor, it *seemed* like a good idea at the time…"
@Popehat nice fable reference! The classics just stay relevant as long as people act like animals.
@Popehat If only there was some way, any way, to make a joke about this. Dammit.
@Popehat If he had never been Trump's lawyer, would we have ever heard of him?
@Popehat Alternately : frog stops trying to churn butter and climbs convenient ladder on side of cream barrel.
@Popehat Ah, but the scorpion has executed a contractual agreement that says the frog cannot renege, whether or not the scorpion honors his end of the bargain. Yeah, that sounds fair...🙄
@Popehat I am surprised that Trump's lawsuit against CNN appears to be still ongoing, despite CNN having hosted Trump in that recent town hall. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished...
@Popehat However, I suspect Trump is wasting the court's time, and Trusty both knows that and told Trump that. But bonus points for Trump asking for $75K compensatory and $475M punitive (and I thought that was a typo, myself...)
@Popehat / Maybe he’s running out of dough and needs to find a criminal who pays his bills.
@Popehat What is particularly interesting is that this suggests Trump refused to agree with him leaving: counsel leave all the time, but usually with the client agreeing through either a "Notice of Intention to Act In Person", or a "Notice of Change of Counsel". Looks like Trump didn't do either. Court-ordered removal is only the last resort.
@Popehat Wow, way to throw your co-counsel under the bus!
@Popehat deep state frogs turned my scorpion gay
@Popehat please don’t let the leopard eat my face.
@Popehat does Trusty need his own lawyer now, in keeping with the MAGA tradition of "Make Attorneys Get Attorneys"?

@dcon3131 @Popehat

I honestly expect that any legal representation so depraved as to think that they can get even a droplet of blood from the desiccated turnip that is DJT would have few qualms about filing pro se.

@Popehat because any attorney seeking to work with him is begin intimidated and threatened.
@Popehat Frog knew what he was getting himself into
@Popehat I look forward to the photos of Trump standing outside the University of Miami’s law school holding a boom box and begging any law student to lead his legal team.

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How has a 2022 case not had any discovery done or deadlines assigned?

@Popehat I can't quite reconcile that his name is "Mr. Trusty"... Like it's a made up cartoon name for someone you definitely shouldn't trust.