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I got five of whatever you want that says nothing happens at all.

 

I’ll pay half.

 

Yessssssss! CRT talk was getting stale. Time to flip it back to War on Christmas! Maybe afterwards we can try to stop Creeping Sharia again?

 

Top conservative lawyers steer clear of Trump's latest legal fight - CNNPolitics


"Washington (CNN)A number of high-powered lawyers who have represented Donald Trump in the past are sitting out his latest legal battle, as the former President prepares to assert executive privilege to block congressional investigators from getting information on the January 6 insurrection. That's left Trump with a relatively small legal team without a lot of experience litigating issues of executive privilege as he readies for a court fight that could test major issues of presidential authority.

Some go-to attorneys have been spooked by Trump's reputation for sometimes not paying as a client, according to several people familiar with conservative legal circles. Others watched closely as lawyers fled Trump's prior teams, frustrated by him as a client or facing their own ethical predicaments. Others still want themselves and their firms to stay far away from Trump's insistence that the election was stolen.

"It's not a 10-foot pole" for law firms distancing themselves from Trump, "it's a 1,000-foot pole," said John Yoo, a University of California at Berkeley law professor who held a senior Justice Department position in the George W. Bush administration."

When John "Torture Memo" Yoo is distancing himself, things are very bad indeed.


"More than a half-dozen prominent attorneys who took notable roles in defending Trump or his advisers in the past are not assisting him this round. Those include Jay Sekulow and Ty Cobb, according to sources familiar with Trump's legal effort.

And at least four well-known lawyers were repeatedly approached by Trump's team for help in recent weeks -- and said no, a source familiar with the discussions tells CNN.

Among the four is William Burck, the white-collar lawyer who represented 11 Trump associates in and after the Mueller investigation. Burck turned Trump down three times in recent months, according to people familiar with the former President's orbit, because he wanted to stay away from how toxic Trump's situation has become after the attempt to overturn the election, the people said.

Trump said in a statement that he had never asked the four lawyers who turned him down, including Burck, for help. "I don't even know who they are, they are just looking to get publicity," the ex-President said. "I am using lawyers who have been with us from the beginning."

"I do pay my lawyers when they do a good job," Trump added.

 

He won the county with 81 percent of the vote

 

Over in England, they kept horses in the pre-Great Fire version of St. Paul's Cathedral. Too High Church.

 

Madam Tussaud's has an early Halloween display up now:

 

Don’t forget BIDEN’s Border Crisis!!!

 

Too little, too late. The minions have been told otherwise for months. One can only hope Trump fractures the party so badly that the GOP finally stops lying to itself and the rest of us.

It comes down to growing a pair and telling Trump to go blank himself, something the mainstream GOP just refuses to do. They know Trump lost, but they can't afford to piss off their core voters who believe the great American lie and bow to the Orange Cheeto. And Fox's constant harping isn't helping their cause in the long run.

Trump's the dead 800-pound elephant in the room. Nobody wants to take responsibility for dumping him in the trash and moving on. Instead, if Trump tells his cult to stay home, Republicans are going to get crushed in swing states next year.

The GOP knows Trump is damaged goods, but they need his cult.