By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on September 6, 2024
An Editorial Opinion
Today, former President Donald Trump criticized his attorneys at a post-hearing press conference following the appeal of writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation judgment against him.
“I’m disappointed in my legal team, I’ll be honest with you,” Trump told reporters at the Trump Tower press briefing.
He should be. Since the raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in 2022, I have written several articles about Trump’s weak and inexperienced legal teams. Trump could have done better in picking his lawyers if he had been blindfolded first and then selected them from the phonebook.
On August 22. 2023, I called Trump’s lawyers “clueless.” I also described how they were "lost in the weeds" of Trump’s high-profile cases.
On August 27, 2023, I described how Trump’s lawyers blew huge opportunities to win his Georgia RICO case.
On August 28, 2023, I described how Trump’s lawyers were getting hammered in court.
On September 6, 2023, the situation was so bad and humiliating that I felt compelled to offer Trump some free advice how to pick lawyers.
On October 18, 2023, I declared Trump’s lawyers to be “losers.”
The victories Donald Trump has won in his Miami classified documents case and his U.S. Supreme Court immunity case have little to do with world-class lawyering. In those cases, the judges were on Trump's side based upon his status as the leader of the MAGA political movement.
If Trump wins the presidency, he will nominate Miami-based U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to the first vacant seat on the Supreme Court. She has exhibited the highest form of political loyalty to Trump.
What is more, the six MAGA justices on the Supreme Court have demonstarted that they are duty-bound to protect Trump. They will always find a way to help Trump in the federal court system.
I am not surprised that Trump is disappointed with his lawyers. All of them have professional reputations that were crafted by PR firms. None of them is known for amassing an impressive win-loss record in the courtroom.
None of them possesses the talent level or experience that would have qualified them to make my former litigation teams.
Interestingly, Hunter Biden discovered the same thing about Attorney Abbe Lowell, whom I fired in 2005 from the Richard Scrushy criminal defense team. Lowell has a win-loss track-record that qualifies him as a “loser,” as well.
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