Donald Trump fought to save Texas ally Ken Paxton from impeachment. It didn't work.
WASHINGTON – In the hours before the GOP-controlled legislature in Texas voted to impeach fellow Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, former President Donald Trump repeatedly took to social media with a warning for anyone − and especially members of his own party − who opposed his longtime ally.
Another example of republicans coming to the defence of other republicans regardless that they are likely guilty. Protect the elite!!
I hope the Texas senate follows through and jettisons Paxton. Then the feds can proceed with their case against Paxton and Trump can share headlines with him.
Trump’s legal team is an epic disaster
The attorney-client relationship is historically one of the most sacred, cloaked with the (usually) impenetrable privilege of complete confidentiality and one that is imbued with explicit and implicit trust. Clients look to their lawyers for guidance, a keen knowledge of the law, and the ability to provide favorable public-facing content for those moments and cases where the client cannot interface with the media and the public. There are professional standards and each state has rules of conduct.
At this point, he’s had too many of his own lawyers in multiple cases, who have had to testify against their own client because of criminal activity they knowingly or unknowingly committed, makes any smart lawyer and Firm not want to represent him.
And it doesn't seem to matter. Unless he goes to jail, the guilty verdicts are raising money for him. He can get hit with a $5 million fine and he'll raise more than that whining about the unfair deep state.
He doesn't pay his bills and he doesn't listen to his lawyers. He's the worst kind of client.
Donald Trump Is Being Ignored by Republicans
Republicans appear to have been ignoring Donald Trump on a number of issues in recent weeks, suggesting the former president's influence on GOP lawmakers is waning as he seeks to regain the White House in 2024.
Trump remains the frontrunner for the Republican nomination next year, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis viewed as his leading rival.
One article says they ignore him, and another says he controls them. But the media continues to cover him.
Ironically, or intentionally, ignoring Trump’s backseat driving advice is the best way to move him back to “outsider” territory, which is the same way he captured the nomination last time.
It’s all quite curious. The GOP establishment didn’t do so badly with Trump. They got a bunch of idiot and corrupt judges, they got agency actions they wanted, they got a huge unfinanced tax cut that increased our national debt during a period of economic growth, etc. But I guess they saw in Trump a lack of cooperation - that in the end he only cares about himself. So he’s never going to be the best partner to help coordinate a three-branch attack on our democracy and freedom, the way that DeSantis and the Florida legislature and courts have worked. They need someone who’s on the same corrupt page, working towards the same end. And I guess they saw that in DeSantis, pushing him hard while hoping that the investigations catch up to Trump in time.
But DeSantis is a DeSaster, he’s getting the donations but he’s not attracting the voters, who at the end of the day will be the ones who need to vote to destroy our democracy and replace it with a kleptocratic illiberal system. Even so, the GOP isn’t exactly pivoting to try their plan with Trump at the helm. They’re still acting like their plan with DeSantis can work. I’m not sure if that signals how out of touch they are, or if they’re so savvy that they know the best way to help Trump is to invite him to “drain the swamp” again.
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