Trump surprised me with this one, I must admit:
Donald Trump is lawyering up for his impeachment trial with a team that looks surprisingly similar to that of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The president bolstered his legal team Friday with attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, who helped Epstein evade prison time in a now infamously lenient plea deal with Palm Beach prosecutors. Epstein originally faced multiple charges of soliciting and trafficking underage girls, but escaped with just 13 months of house arrest in a deal that caused Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to resign under pressure last year.
I think Monica Lewinsky said it best:
Trump also added the wingnut snake Robert Ray, (to whom even the mainstream media has been giving way too much credit during this saga) Pam Bondi and Jane Raskin in addition to his White House counsel Pat Cippolone and his personal lawyer Jay Sekulow. Apparently, they’re going to spend the week-end (!) going through the evidence and preparing for the trial. I’m going to guess that means they don’t plan to present a defense beyond, “Yeah, he did it. He’s our Sun King. Waddya gonna do about it?”
Trump wanted TV lawyers and since he couldn’t get Sam Waterston and Raymond Burr, he picked Fox New defenders. The base will be impressed even if nobody else is and that’s all that matters.
Whether that works on the general population is questionable. Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz carry a whole lot of baggage even beyond what I note above and I suspect the media will make sure people are reminded of it.
Here’s what Trump used to think about Starr:
Bondi is implicated in a bribery scheme with Trump. Robert Ray is a right-wing hack. Only Cippolone is one of Bob Barrs close buddies.
This is all one big show.