Capitol Hill Blue Forums Life and Moral Issues Crime & Punishment The Many Trump Attorneys Who Exposed Themselves to Legal Jeopardy

The following lawyers have all - at a minimum - appeared in subpoenas pertinent to one or another of the investigations into Donald Trump, and a surprising number have testified before grand juries, including at least three with (Executive Privilege) waivers.

To be clear: Many have no legal exposure themselves, but are instead simply witnesses to the efforts made to keep Trump in line before they were replaced with lawyers who were willing to let Trump do whatever he wanted, legal or not. Some of these lawyers have had legal process served against them, and so many themselves are subjects of one or multiple investigations.

• Michael Cohen (hush payment): convicted felon whose phones were seized April 9, 2018
• Rudy Giuliani (Ukraine, hush payment, Georgia, coup attempt): phones seized in Ukraine investigation April 28, 2021, received subpoena for billing records in fundraising investigation around December 2022
• John Eastman (Georgia, coup attempt): communications deemed crime-fraud excepted March 28, 2022; phone seized June 22, 2022
• Boris Epshteyn (stolen documents, coup attempt, Georgia): testified in Georgia grand jury; phone seized in September after which he retroactively claimed to have been doing lawyer stuff
• Sidney Powell (fraud, coup attempt, Georgia): Subpoenas sent in fraud investigation starting in September 2021; testified before Georgia grand jury; appeared in November subpoena
• Jeffrey Clark (coup attempt): May 26 warrant for cloud accounts and phone seized June 22, 2022
• Ken Klukowski (coup attempt): May 26 warrant for cloud accounts
• Victoria Toensing (Ukraine, coup attempt): Phone seized in Ukraine investigation April 28, 2021, on June and November subpoenas
• Brad Carver (Georgia, fake elector): phone contents seized June 22
• Jenna Ellis (coup attempt, Georgia): Rudy’s sidekick, censured by CO Bar for lying serial misrepresentations, on June and November subpoenas
• Kenneth Cheesbro (fake elector, Georgia): included in June and November subpoenas
• Evan Corcoran (stolen documents): testified before grand jury in January, testifies under crime-fraud exception on March 24
• Christina Bobb (coup attempt, Georgia, stolen documents): interviewed in October 2022 and appeared before grand jury in January, belatedly asked for testimony in Georgia
• Stefan Passantino (coup attempt, obstruction, financial): included in November subpoenas, alleged to have discouraged full testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson
• Tim Parlatore (stolen documents): appeared before grand jury in December 2022
• Jennifer Little (Georgia, stolen documents): ordered to testify under crime-fraud exception
• Alina Habba (stolen documents, NYS tax fraud): testified before grand jury in January
• Bruce Marks (coup attempt): included in November subpoena
• Cleta Mitchell (coup attempt, Georgia): included in November subpoenas
• Joshua Findlay (coup attempt): included in June subpoenas
• Kurt Olsen (coup attempt): included in November subpoenas
• William Olson (coup attempt): included in November subpoenas
• Lin Wood (coup attempt): included in November subpoenas
• Alex Cannon (coup attempt, financial, stolen documents)
• Eric Herschmann (coup attempt, Georgia, financial, stolen documents)
• Justin Clark (coup attempt, financial): included June and November subpoenas
• Joe DiGenova (coup attempt): included in June and November subpoenas
• Greg Jacob (coup attempt): grand jury appearances, including with Executive Privilege waiver
• Pat Cipollone (coup attempt): grand jury appearances in summer and - with Executive Privilege waiver - December 2
• Pat Philbin (coup attempt and stolen documents): grand jury appearances in summer and - with Executive Privilege waiver — December 2
• Matthew Morgan (coup attempt): included in November subpoenas

Jeebus...

I enjoy the stories MSNBC and others have been running showing Joe Tacopina when he was consulting for Stormy Daniels back then versus his Trump representation now. He perfectly contradicts what he was saying about the illegal payoff in 2018. This is essentially the dictionary definition of conflict of interest. He may not get charged, but I bet he gets censured by the Bar.

I wonder if he will get paid. Trump has a long history of not paying the bills. I also suspect that them that work for him deserve it.

I have a plumber coming today.
I wonder if I can pull the same stunt, get my shower fixed and stiff them on the invoice.
I'll just sign it "John Barron"...that ought to work, right?

Depends... do you have bodyguards and a lawyer that can fend off a monkeywrench?