New legal trouble for Donald Trump’s remaining attorneys
Donald Trump goes through attorneys like the rest of us go through toilet paper, and each time Trump puts together a new legal team, it’s somehow even more embarrassing than the last. How many of Trump’s former attorneys have ended up criminally indicted, or otherwise sanctioned? It’s possible the list just got longer.
Attorneys are not allowed to knowingly put witnesses on the stand for the purpose of delivering false testimony. It’s not a crime on the part of the attorney, but it is a good way to get sanctioned. You don’t see it happen too often, because first you’d have to nail a witness for the crime of perjury, and then you’d have to nail the attorney for being in on it.
But as it turns out, longtime Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg just pleaded guilty to committing perjury in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial. This in turn means it’s possible that Trump’s attorneys will face professional sanctions for having known Weisselberg was lying but not having done anything about it.
We’ll see where this goes. Keep in mind that while these things never get rectified as swiftly as the public might expect, they often do get rectified. When Weisselberg committed perjury during the trial and wasn’t immediately hauled away five minutes later, many observers mistakenly assumed he’d “gotten away” with it. But he ended up being criminally charged for it, and now he’s going back to prison. Now Trump’s remaining attorneys may have to worry that they could be the next to get in trouble for Trump’s crimes.
