It sounds like Trump is going to have to call one of those billboard lawyers. You have seen the type, “DUI? Divorce? Bankruptcy? Call Will B. Rich for all your legal needs.” Maybe Trump needs to get out of Washington and Palm Beach, come to red America that he loves so much, the billboards are everywhere. After all, we can think of DUIs that would require a more complicated defense than Trump’s impeachment trial. A lot of DUIs are filmed on dashboard cams so it won’t be that much different.

According to Bloomberg, no one else wants anything to do with Trump:

President Donald Trump, on the eve of facing a historic second impeachment trial for inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, is having trouble finding a legal team to defend him. Allies of the outgoing president have been canvassing Washington’s legal landscape looking for representation but so far are coming up short. Lawyers who defended him in the previous impeachment trial, including, Jay Sekulow and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, have said no this time, according to people familiar with the matter.

Now you know it’s bad when Cipollone and Sekulow are refusing to represent him.

Other lawyers who have defended Trump at times, including former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, Eric Herschmann, Pat Philbin and Marc Kasowitz aren’t interested in joining a team this time, the people said. Some of the lawyers who don’t want a role have privately said what Trump did was indefensible.

“Indefensible.”

Yes, it was, and that’s why he should just resign, thus negating the need for an attorney at all … for now.

Keith Whittington, a politics professor at Princeton University isn’t the least bit surprised: “Those who might have been sympathetic to defending the president in other contexts such as his first impeachment don’t necessarily want to defend what he’s done here — both because they aren’t easy to defend and they’ll tarnish people’s professional reputation down the road.”

All true except we’re not sure that what he’s “done here” is all that much worse than what he “did then,” given that he put American foreign policy up for sale in order to further his political interests. Here, he just put a few thousand of his followers “up for sale” to prisons … no, what he did here is much worse.

Good luck, Trump. Have Jared drive around northern Virginia and find a billboard. Best be ready to put some in a trust account, though. Even Trump’s biggest defenders know that they have to get the money upfront.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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