Chris McIntosh
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Let me get this straight. Trump wants the ability to show witness testimony to “volunteer attorneys” on his side? What the hell is a volunteer attorney, one who never gets paid? Isn’t that nearly every attorney who’s ever worked for him?
mazianni@georgetakei "volunteer attorneys". is that like "armchair quarterbacks"?
Mike Sheward@georgetakei I believe this is known in legal circles as pro-bonehead work
Skeptic@georgetakei
According to Trump's defense, listening to “volunteer attorneys” is what got him indicted.
According to Trump's defense, listening to “volunteer attorneys” is what got him indicted.
Rugged Bot Romeo@georgetakei This time it will all be explicitly stated up front rather than simply implied. 😂
Optimist
Grinning Cat 
🚫👑@georgetakei It's one of the loopholes he wants that's so wide you could drive a truck through it.
He could get a professional blabbermouth -- or someone connected with a foreign government -- to look at a brief and say, "Yeah, that looks good", and then share sensitive information that THEY then make public... or give him some quid pro quo for, under the table...
Marc Criley@georgetakei "Attorneys", totes legit, they got the blue checkmark.
Damien Gallagher@georgetakei probably anyone who got disbarred?
Pete@georgetakei maybe they're not bound by the same legal obligations a real attorney would be.
Exactly this. Real attorneys are, among other things, officers of the court. The government's proposed protective order says that sensitive materials are to be kept in the custody of Trump's (actual, paid, with legal and ethical obligations) defense counsel, and Trump is allowed to see them but not take pictures or make notes of identifying information.
CowBlizzard@georgetakei don't forget: several of his volunteer attorneys are unindicted co-conspirators.
Darwin Woodka@cowblizzard @georgetakei or future co-conspirators
Ornwen@georgetakei he means right-wing bloggers
Random Damage 🌻@georgetakei it's totally a ploy to try to get official permission to release information about witnesses to his flying monkey patrols
Aho@georgetakei Trump is so used form illegal immigrants working at his hotels, that he expect to get everything for free.
More fundamentally, Trump's objection to the proposed protective order starts with what's known in legal circles as a big fat lie, with his VERY FIRST WORD.
"President Donald J. Trump, through counsel, submits this Response..."
That first word ceased being true on January 20, 2021. Judge Chutkan would be entirely justified in ruling that the response does not refer to the defendant in this case, and is therefore summarily overruled.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.14.0_4.pdf
Half Cocked Law@georgetakei Unindicted co-conspirators
Joe@georgetakei He wants to send it to everyone on Truth Social and X, for the convenience of the volunteer attorneys he hopes to recruit.
R.L. LE@georgetakei I think we witnessed glimpses of what that means in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Lis@georgetakei Are they the ones who got their law decree from Twitter School of Law?
ferricoxide@georgetakei
If you're lawyering for Trump, you're doing it for free, whether you think he's going to pay you or not. So, every attorney Trump uses is, effectively, a "volunteer attorney".
May also mean he's planning to seek legal advice via Truth Social or even X comments?
If you're lawyering for Trump, you're doing it for free, whether you think he's going to pay you or not. So, every attorney Trump uses is, effectively, a "volunteer attorney".
May also mean he's planning to seek legal advice via Truth Social or even X comments?
Martha Lemert
Anatisadalia 🐞🌺@georgetakei That man is BROKE! In every capacity/meaning of the word.
Steve Hersey@georgetakei
He plans to bring Fox News on board as "volunteer attorneys." If he isn't paying them, they don't need a law license, right?
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He plans to bring Fox News on board as "volunteer attorneys." If he isn't paying them, they don't need a law license, right?
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Kevin Leecaster
ZZ Bottom
Patrick Coyle@georgetakei The difference is that 'volunteer attorneys' agree in advance that they are not going to get paid... (sigh)
Orc@georgetakei people with cameras
Darryl Cat@georgetakei isn't showing confidential information to people who have no business seeing it what got him in trouble in the first place 🙀🙀
DarkGamer@georgetakei Crowdsourced legal defense? No, more like stochastic terrorism to make potential witnesses afraid.
"IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU." -Donald J Trump
Scott Knowles@georgetakei Trump pays attorneys from his Pac and SuperPac which is funded by his voters' donations. Seems attorneys learned to get money from Trump first or they don't work. They don't work on promised money anymore.
Joe Helfrich@georgetakei $10 says "volunteer attorneys" will be defined as anyone who follows his accounts or is on a mailing list, so that he can share selected bits of evidence (anything he thinks makes him look good) in public.
Vic UzumeriUm. I didn't know that "volunteer lawyering" was a thing with multi-billionaires.
John Vanderzwet@georgetakei This would include the 5 or 6 lawyers who are his co-conspirators.
@georgetakei Trump just doesn't possess the concept of paying people.
McNulla@georgetakei
He wants to post in public in case some MAGA has an idea about how to defend the indefensible.
He wants to post in public in case some MAGA has an idea about how to defend the indefensible.
edgeoforever 🍎@georgetakei also, the rest of the GOP and all the media obviously. They all act as his attorneys.🤷♀️
Mori@georgetakei Sick burn 😁