{"id":179302,"date":"2018-03-27T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/27\/yeah-this-amuses-the-hell-out-of-me-too\/"},"modified":"2018-03-27T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T23:05:00","slug":"yeah-this-amuses-the-hell-out-of-me-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/27\/yeah-this-amuses-the-hell-out-of-me-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, This Amuses the Hell out of Me Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/dan-webb-and-tom-buchanan-latest-lawyers-to-decline-to-join-donald-trumps-legal-team\/\">Donald Trump is having a devil of a time finding counsel willing to represent him<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>My guess is because as is clear to even my legal mind, Donald Trump is the client from hell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Two more high-power attorneys have had to turn down President Donald Trump. Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb confirmed to The Daily Beast that Trump reached out to them about representing him, and that they couldn\u2019t do it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cPresident Trump reached out to Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan to provide legal representation,\u201d they said in a statement. \u201cThey were unable to take on the representation due to business conflicts. However they consider the opportunity to represent the President to be the highest honor and they sincerely regret that they cannot do so. They wish the president the best and believe he has excellent representation in Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Buchanan and Webb\u2019s decision highlights the challenges the president has faced in assembling a legal team to represent him for matters related to the Mueller probe. Over the weekend, Trump tweeted that numerous lawyers were eager to work for him. But so far, his team has been shrinking rather than expanding.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are good clients, and bad clients, and awful clients, and then there is Donald Trump, and lawyers simply do not want to deal with his crap.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Donald Trump is having a devil of a time finding counsel willing to represent him, My guess is because as is clear to even my legal mind, Donald Trump is the client from hell: Two more high-power attorneys have had to turn down President Donald Trump. Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb confirmed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,407,486],"class_list":["post-179302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}