5 lawyers quit because they realize this is a farce. Maybe trump thinks he can pull off his magic trick again of making everyone with less teeth than digits believe him.
And the hidebound Democrats would *let* him, too, thus playing perfectly into Trump's hands, not realizing *he* would beat them in the game.
It’s a conundrum if you were simply planning to let Trump off the hook.
Instead, he is being represented by the Bedminster, New Jersey-based Alina Habba, managing partner of Habba Madiao & Associates (via The Washington Post ). Habba appears to be a virtual unknown in media law, and in its list of practice areas, Habba Madaio lists business and commercial litigation, insurance defense, real state, entertainment structure as well as civil litigation as its main practice areas.
Habba told The Washington Post that she had never worked for Donald Trump before, because she had "just stepped in" and that the firm is "hoping to have some traction and clear the president's name." Mary L. Trump, who is one of the four defendants, has dismissed the action, saying that Trump was now "going to throw anything against the wall he can" (via The Daily Beast ).
Clark was deputy national political director for Trump’s 2016 campaign, then became director of the Office of Public Liaison in the White House after the New York developer was elected president.
Powell was president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in 2001 and 2002.
Bondi gained national prominence while Florida’s attorney general as one of the key Republican state attorneys general who sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The Supreme Court upheld the law in 2012.
Powell was a federal prosecutor from 1978 through 1988, serving as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas. In the Western District, she helped win the conviction of organized crime leader Jimmy Chagra for continuing criminal enterprises.
Sekulow founded the European Centre for Law and Justice based in Strasbourg, France, the seat of the European Court of Human Rights. He opened ECLJ offices in France, Russia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and Israel.