Various reasons
One problem with being a Donald Trump is that you’re a Donald Trump. It means a lot of people will avoid you, not necessarily for political reasons but because you’re a Donald Trump.
Donald Trump lost three of his lawyers in one day when attorney Joe Tacopina filed a declaration requesting the withdrawal of his firm’s representation of the former president in multiple lawsuits.
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Tacopina withdrew his firm’s legal services from the hush money case only two months before the trial was set to start, at the end of March. Tacopina also requested to withdraw his firm’s legal services from E. Jean Carroll‘s civil defamation and battery case against Trump, which awarded the former Elle columnist $5 million in damages last May.
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Tacopina will no longer represent the former president in any appeals related to the Carroll case, nor will his firm be involved in a separate defamation case against Trump from Carroll, which is set to start Tuesday.
Maybe he just has a dentist appointment that day.
Michael McAuliffe, a former federal prosecutor and former elected state attorney, told Newsweek that an attorney might withdraw legal services for various reasons.
“A lawyer might attempt to withdraw as counsel of record for a client in a pending case for a number of reasons,” McAuliffe said. “The attorney-client relationship might have suffered a fundamental breach of confidence, running in either or both directions. A strong-willed client who thinks he or she is more of a lawyer than the actual lawyer can create an untenable scenario for that lawyer to continue representing the client’s interests.
“However, with Donald Trump, any lawyer who agrees to act as his counsel is on clear notice on that front,” McAuliffe said.
A “strong-willed client” – aka a pig-headed dim-witted client who thinks he knows everything and never shuts up.
Who in their right mind would accept him as a client? Why wouldn’t they say “No” from the outset?
OB, with respect, I think you could be going a bit far there. After all, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in the universe. Or, to put it another way, 200 sextillion. (That’s 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.) So around them there will be orbiting oodleillions of planets, a billion or so containing someone who is a dead ringer for Donald Trump, and claiming that he indeed knows everything. And the odds are in favour of one of those Universal knowall Trumps being right. And so this planet right here beneath our feet could well be it.!
It boggles the mind, I know, but I am convinced that it could be part of God’s plan – to get Trump right out of His Divine sight: Park him here as POTUS.
The mind boggles again.
The article goes on to mention this, but 99% of the time, when an attorney moves to withdraw from a case, it’s because the client isn’t paying the bills.
Of course, you kind of have notice of that potential when you agree to take on Trump as well!
Same goes for maga people in general. The stink is powerful.
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#1 Bruce
I think these days, lawyers representing Trump take their payment in advance.
Well, Tacopino gets away from Trump without being disbarred. But leaves behind yet another opportunity for delay. Perhaps the latter was ‘part of the service’ he offered in the first place.