{"id":135993,"date":"2018-03-28T06:56:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T12:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135993"},"modified":"2018-03-30T00:55:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:55:26","slug":"difficult-client-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/28\/difficult-client-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Difficult Client&#8221; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is having increasing problems finding attorneys willing to represent him. Apparently he&#8217;s become so toxic, and so demonstrably maddening to represent, that the major law firms are declining to take the job because the anticipated net impact on the firm will be negative. Other firms cite conflicts of interest with other cases or individuals under investigation or indictment or being called as witnesses.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well-known Washington lawyers cited several reasons for declining the President in recent weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with their decisions. Among them, Trump appears to be a difficult client and has rebuked some of his lawyers&#8217; advice. He&#8217;s perceived as so politically unpopular he may damage reputations rather than boost them. Lawyers at large firms fear backlash from their corporate clients if they were to represent the President. And many want to steer clear of conflicts of interest that could complicate their other obligations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, apparently, there are only so many crazy &#8220;I play a lawyer on TV&#8221; legal talking heads on Fox News who can pass background checks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/28\/politics\/donald-trump-lawyer\/index.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Y7dQTPiBCByMchexRqXS0NI64J1OPBHx9SCNqRZZkMyrscVBsbiTpiiVY5cVSpwo0WyD2_1ZQws-ngtpbAViraESGjjVrRi6N7A9ZD-RpSJoFxuMl3sYknGmqTPqeQV1JXaTRfg13w=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/28\/politics\/donald-trump-lawyer\/index.html\">An unheard-of problem: The President can&#8217;t find a lawyer &#8211; CNNPolitics<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSeveral top US law firms have left President Donald Trump with few places to turn for legal help in the Russia probe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/d1q7uKmQZoV\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is having increasing problems finding attorneys willing to represent him. Apparently he&#8217;s become so toxic, and so demonstrably maddening to represent, that the major law firms are declining to take the job because the anticipated net impact on the firm will be negative. Other firms cite conflicts of interest with other cases or individuals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/28\/difficult-client-president.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8220;Difficult Client&#8221; President&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,1071],"tags":[1468,1078,1077],"class_list":["post-135993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-trump","tag-lawyer","tag-russia","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trump-across-the-table.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132804,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/a-fool-for-a-client.html","url_meta":{"origin":135993,"position":0},"title":"&quot;A fool for a client&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-17 10:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"Abraham Lincoln -- an attorney and a president -- is famously attributed as saying \"He who represents himself has a fool for a client.\u201d Which brings me to Donald Trump who, apparently, is not only smarter than all the judges hearing the case (I'm sure they will appreciate that), but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131949,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/when-lawyers-fear-the-possible-future-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":135993,"position":1},"title":"When lawyers fear the (possible future) president","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Nov-16 6:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, yeah, everyone hates lawyers. Yadda-yadda-yadda.But, really, honestly, truly -- do we really want a someone as President who the chief legal association in the US refuses to critique because they are afraid he'll sue them?'Alarmed by Donald J. 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Some lawyer somewhere will eventually establish that Trump, by becoming a very public and political figure,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133464,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/12\/donald-releases-his-tax-returns-um-no-i-mean-his-tax-lawyers.html","url_meta":{"origin":135993,"position":3},"title":"Donald releases his tax returns. 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