Common, ordinary, banal, unimaginative

 

This is Ty Cobb, former US attorney, defense lawyer and distant relative of the great (if personally repellant) baseball player.  Back in 2017-18 he represented Trump during the Mueller investigation of Russia's role in the 2016 election.  I don't know if he got paid or not, but he has been firm in condemning the Big Lie of the stolen 2020 election; the January 6, 2021, attempted coup; and as for future prospects he recently noted:  "One thing the Democrats know for certain is that Trump's uncontrolled ego is his own worst enemy.  They are praying they are able to goad him into an announcement for a 2024 presidential run...Such an announcement does not inoculate him from criminal investigation."

Most former Trump lawyers -- and there are now enough to convene a meeting in the Hollywood Bowl -- have not turned so definitively against him.  Many remain pathetically loyal to the client who cratered their reputations and careers (Giuliani, Powell, Dershowitz) or keep silent to avoid violent threats, the only form of expression his disciples seem to have.  I imagine a lot of interesting books will follow the end of attorney-client privilege at some point.  Right now they're too busy being deposed and investigated to do much writing.

Trump has to keep hiring lawyers because the ones he hired last week keep tripping over their own briefs.  For instance, Christina Bobb and Evan Corcoran are looking for their own lawyers because they allegedly misled the FBI (the search warrant guys) over the classified document loot recovered from Trump's rec room.  Bobb's signature is on the property receipt.  Never sign anything for Trump.  The Client sent Alina Habba over to tell Charlie Kirk's audience that it's all a big nothingburger with no ketchup even, because "They found these two mundane statutes, espionage and the two others."  Yes, the courts are full of people getting done for DUI, aggravated assault, stealing top secret documents, drunk and disorderly, so much criming and the Democrats want to defund the police.  Wait, what?  Habba used to represent a parking garage company and once sued Mary Trump for the harm* her book caused Uncle Don.  She's managing partner of Habba Madaio & Associates.  I'm pretty sure Madaio is her labradoodle.

It's safe to say Trump has not found "my Roy Cohn."  Cohn would make him shut up.  Cohn would not let him rant about the trivial.

Yes, the agents of the Deep State broke in armed with nothing but a warrant signed by a judge, made a big mess on his perfect carpet so people would think he's a slob when he kept the "planted" documents in "cartons," and wouldn't let his lawyers be present.  Where are we, Communist Bolshevik Russia?

It's lucky Ms. Habba's office is in Bedminster, New Jersey, because yet another ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, who actually did time for Trump, says he probably has more stolen state secrets hidden at the golf club/farm/cemetery there, or Trump Tower, or who knows where else.  Turnberry, Scotland?  Doonbeg in Ireland?  Trump Towers Istanbul? The various Canadian properties which thought it prudent to change their names?  Cohen suggests the homes of Allen Weisselberg, the Trump spawn, hey, has anyone seen Tiffany lately?  And what's really buried in Ivana's grave?  

Hold the phone!  Trump just gave an "interview" where he claimed the FBI was really looking for Hillary's emails in his desk drawer.  Because he thinks email involves paper.  Ms. Habba, control your client.

*One hundred million dollars' worth of harm.  So much harm.