Trump's 'one-way' relationship with his former lawyers is coming back to haunt him
This past week Donald Trump discovered that the attributes that he admires in his choice of lawyers can come back to haunt him when they are finally are put in a position where their own livelihoods and freedom are on the line.
This past week Jenna Ellis became the third Trump lawyer, along with Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, to flip on the former president in the Georgia racketeering case where they were also co-denedants.
Later in the week, former Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen became the centerpiece of New York Attorney General Letitia James' pursuit of Trump in a $250 million fraud case.
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As the New York Times is reporting, the fervent doggedness that Trump so admired in all of his now-former attorneys has become a weapon being used against him -- and it's all because of the way he treated them when they worked for them.
"Mr. Trump has a history of disavowing people who were once close to him and find themselves in trouble. He had long since cut ties with Mr. Cohen — until Tuesday, they had not seen each other in five years — and more recently he distanced himself from the lawyers in the Georgia case. He had also refused to pay their mounting legal bills," the report states before adding, "Their relationships, a one-way street flowing in Mr. Trump’s direction, appeared to work for a time. But when those loyal soldiers faced their own legal jeopardy, their allegiance to the former president became strained or even shattered."
Noting that Cohen and Trump have been at odds with each other for years, his falling out with Ellis has come at an inopportune time as he faces indictments in four different jurisdictions as well as a handful of civil lawsuits.
The report goes on to add that Cohen's testimony so infuriated the former president that, along with being fined once again by Judge Arthur Engoron for testing his gag order, it was a contributing factor to Trump storming out of the Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday.
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