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The Slobfather's Georgia lawyer coming up (Original Post) malaise Mar 2023 OP
K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2023 #1
An effing lunatic malaise Mar 2023 #4
Who is paying for all of his lawyers? The idiot fringe? panader0 Mar 2023 #2
The non-stop grift malaise Mar 2023 #3
I just want Ari to scream at him that every damned point he's trying to make was adjudicated by the hlthe2b Mar 2023 #5
He will not answer Ari malaise Mar 2023 #7
Why do Trump lawyers all look like Trump lawyers LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #6
Attorney rso Mar 2023 #10
Yes, he's a cagey motherfucker. He also has taken on non RW cases, and has ripped Trump in the past. Celerity Mar 2023 #16
It sounds like he took it because he's had run-ins with Fani Willis before and has hlthe2b Mar 2023 #21
Yes, he's represented multiple rappers. He's vocally pro-choice. Strange bedfellows he & Trump make. Celerity Mar 2023 #22
LOL malaise Mar 2023 #11
Georgia rso Mar 2023 #8
Very low bar... hlthe2b Mar 2023 #9
Do you acknowledge that he lost malaise Mar 2023 #12
Did he ever give a direct answer? (UPS came just then) hlthe2b Mar 2023 #14
No malaise Mar 2023 #15
Sick Of It DET Mar 2023 #13
TFG's Georgia lawyer is an asshole LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #17
You sure find these links quickly malaise Mar 2023 #19
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Mar 2023 #20
"remarks of the first grand jury have tainted the process" Takket Mar 2023 #18
According to Prof. Tribe, the fake electors litigated TFG's arguments and lost LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2023 #23

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)
5. I just want Ari to scream at him that every damned point he's trying to make was adjudicated by the
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 06:32 PM
Mar 2023

courts. And that Georgia law allowing for Special Grand Juries and their procedures has been previously adjudicated over decades. What a lying or intensely ignorant excuse for a lawyer.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
7. He will not answer Ari
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 06:34 PM
Mar 2023

Because he has no plan to be disbarred for Slobby

Ari has cornered his ass

Celerity

(43,416 posts)
16. Yes, he's a cagey motherfucker. He also has taken on non RW cases, and has ripped Trump in the past.
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 06:58 PM
Mar 2023

He is the first and only Trump hire for this case I would even remotely consider hiring if I needed a defence attorney in GA. (which I can say I never will, lol).

I really do not know why he took on Trump as a client (money and fame are the likely reasons I would wager, but Trump has a terrible record of paying the bills).

Trump Hires Attorney Who Once Called Him ‘Racist Architect of Fraudulent Trump University’

https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/trump-hires-attorney-who-once-called-him-racist-architect-of-fraudulent-trump-university/

Former president Donald Trump recently hired a powerful, Atlanta-based attorney to represent him as he resists a longstanding criminal investigation launched by a prosecutor in Georgia over his efforts to overturn the Peach State’s 2020 presidential election results. Somewhat awkwardly for the 45th president, his newest attorney has previously been one of his most vehement critics.

That lawyer, Drew Findling, whose last name is pronounced with soft i-sound on the first syllable (like the top part of a dolphin), previously took his new client task for remarks about NBA legend LeBron James. In a tweet sent Aug. 4, 2018, Findling called Trump both “racist” and “pathetic.” He also accused the then-president of fraud. “The racist architect of fraudulent Trump University criticizing Lebron, the founder of a free school for children,” the lawyer tweeted in a post that is still live as of this writing. “POTUS pathetic once again!”

Findling’s comments were aimed at Trump going after James during an interview in which the heralded and highly-decorated small forward appeared on CNN with host Don Lemon to discuss a school he funds for at-risk youth in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. During that interview, James also assailed Trump for stoking national division through sports and saying: ”sports has never been something that divides people it’s always been something that brings someone together.”

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The attorney also addressed his past criticism of Trump – albeit somewhat obliquely. “I may differ politically from many of my clients, but that doesn’t change my commitment to defend against wrongful investigations,” Findling continued. “In this case, the focus on President Trump in Fulton County, Georgia is clearly an erroneous and politically driven persecution and along with my office and co-counsel, I am fully committed to defend against this injustice.”

snip

smdh

I guess he has a price his ethics and values can be bought and paid for.

Typical example of why so many hate lawyers, ffs.

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)
21. It sounds like he took it because he's had run-ins with Fani Willis before and has
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 07:02 PM
Mar 2023

"hurt wittle feelings" at the hands of this competent black WOMAN. At least that's the read I get. His other cases involved the music industry I think.

malaise

(269,054 posts)
12. Do you acknowledge that he lost
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 06:39 PM
Mar 2023

Bwaaaaah😀😀😀
Love how Ari dealt with the current president after this asshole called Slobby president

DET

(1,323 posts)
13. Sick Of It
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 06:41 PM
Mar 2023

Drew Findling, supposedly a brilliant defense attorney. At least he’s not a complete joke like Joe Tacopino (Bragg case lawyer). He’s claiming that the remarks of the first grand jury have tainted the process, Trump didn't break any laws, deflect, deflect, deflect, blah, blah, blah. Refuses to answer direct questions from Ari. I’m concerned that he may be able to successfully obfuscate the case enough to create doubt. Ari is getting fed up.

Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #17)

Takket

(21,577 posts)
18. "remarks of the first grand jury have tainted the process"
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 06:59 PM
Mar 2023

that's nonsense. drumpf will get a 12 person jury like everyone else and they can screen out anyone that shows any bias because of the grand jury foreperson's comments.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,321 posts)
23. According to Prof. Tribe, the fake electors litigated TFG's arguments and lost
Tue Mar 21, 2023, 09:56 PM
Mar 2023

Every time, DA Fanni Willis has called a major witness, that witness had tried to block the subpoena and have lost.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-georgia-motion-desperate-air/

Donald Trump's lawyers attempted to undo the full report of the special grand jury in Fulton County as part of a court motion this week. But according to Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe, the motion was essentially nothing.

The motion asks that the judge "preclude any state prosecutor agency from presenting or utilizing any evidence or testimony derived by the Special Purpose Grand Jury." MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell noted that it goes against a Georgia state law.

"I was a little worried at first, I thought it was going to be — someone said it was a 485-pound document. It turned out to be 485 pages. Most of them were just filler it was very easy and a quick read over dinner, in fact," Tribe explained. "It doesn't say much of anything. It makes bizarre claims. It says that Judge Robert McBurney was really unfair. It doesn't show anything about a supposedly unfair. On the contrary, he ruled quite often against things that Fani Willis wanted to do. It asked to have Fani Willis, and her whole office removed because they were illegal or unfair. But that effort was already made by the fake electors, and they were quickly turned away by the Georgia courts. There is really nothing here. It is just air."

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