One of the vengeful Malignant Fascist's more mundane crimes is the use of his position to extort concessions from his adversaries. The first example of this was his "perfect call" to Ukraine's President Zalenskyy in 2019 demanding he get dirt on the Bidens in exchange for vital military aid, which resulted in his first impeachment.
Lately, the mob boss posing as President has been targeting law firms that have had the Constitutional audacity to represent or hire people that the MF sees as his enemies, threatening to take their security clearances away and to cancel any government contracts with them. We noted his attack on the law firm of Perkins, Coie which represented Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, a firm that's taken the MF to court. Unfortunately, the MF's extortion has apparently worked on the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, which at one time employed Mark Pommerantz who investigated the MF's shady finances prior to him becoming President. From the Associated Press:
"President Donald Trump on Thursday rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent international law firm after it pledged to review its hiring practices and to provide tens of millions of dollars in free legal services to support certain White House initiatives.
The move follows a meeting between Trump and Brad Karp, the chairman of the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Garrison & Wharton, over the White House order issued last week. [snip]
To avoid those consequences, the White House said Paul, Weiss had agreed to 'take on a wide range of pro bono matters that represent the full spectrum of political viewpoints of our society,' to disavow the use of diversity, equity and inclusion considerations in its hiring and promotion decisions and to dedicate the equivalent of $40 million in free legal services to support Trump administration policies on issues including assistance for veterans and countering anti-Semitism." (our emphasis)
Bending the knee to the MF emboldens him and convinces him that his extortion will succeed with others, as well it might. These attacks on law firms that have represented clients and issues which the MF disagrees with should be opposed immediately by law firms and their representative associations. Otherwise, he'll pick you off one by one.
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Free representation and fighting for the idiot's cause sounds good. Then again the old joke about the USSR comes to mind: 'We pretend to work and they pretend of pay us'.
ReplyDeleteCoerced work is not necessarily approached with the same zeal, enthusiasm, efficiency and attention to detail as work voluntarily undertaken.
And nobody can waste time, money, and effort as efficiently as a lawyer if they put their mind to it.
Play their cards right and that $40M might represent a very few days creatively and gratuitously wasted by a team of law clerks. Nothing says that an inter-office memo has to go directly down the hall. It might by routed through Albuquerque.
Point here is that a lack of enthusiasm and inefficiency, like stupidity, has no bottom. You get what you pay for. This is a freebie. It seems unlikely that this will be their best work.
Anon -- that's an interesting observation! Hopefully any Paul Weiss attorneys still sticking around after today will adopt that passive aggressive strategy.
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