Donald Trump’s new attorney is already blowing it
Donald Trump hired a new attorney this week to represent him in the January 6th indictment that the DOJ is about to bring against him, after Trump’s other attorneys were reportedly caught off guard by the fact that the DOJ is indicting Trump for January 6th. It’s never a great look when you have to hire a new attorney to represent you in a case that your existing attorneys were too dense to know was even coming.
It’s even more strange that Trump’s newly hired attorney, John Lauro, previously represented two of Trump’s other attorneys. That’s right, after Trump incriminated his attorneys, forcing them to hire an attorney, Trump is now hiring their attorney.
So it was fair to have low expectations for Trump’s new attorney. After all, who would even be willing to represent him at this point? Suffice it to say that Lauro isn’t off to the best start. He just announced to the media that his first priority will be to request TV cameras in the courtroom during Trump’s trial. This is actually something that should happen in a trial like this, for public transparency. But it certainly wouldn’t benefit Trump.
For that matter no defense attorney would actually believe that cameras in the courtroom would somehow benefit an obviously guilty Trump. And they certainly wouldn’t consider it to be so important that they announce it as their top priority. Given that this attorney has been on the job for 48 hours and his client is days or hours away from being indicted, wouldn’t coming up with an actual defense strategy be the top priority?
This is all just serves to give away that Donald Trump’s attorneys are all just giving him what he wants, or what they think he’s going to respond positively to. Trump is a faded has-been reality show star who clearly misses the cameras, but comes off like an increasingly senile buffoon whenever he does end up in front of the cameras these days. Of course he’d want his criminal trial televised. It’s his last hurrah before he’s hauled off to prison.
But it’s not something that any attorney would prioritize if they were actually trying to win. That’s because Trump can’t win these trials. The evidence is overwhelming in each of them, and he’s going to be convicted. He doesn’t want to hear that, of course, so he’s reduced to hiring attorneys who are selling him on the idea that televising the trial is what’s going to somehow magically save him. Good luck with that.
