Peter Sagal: There’s an odd moment in this WaPo story about how the other women Trump assaulted are dealing with the current trial… wapo.st/4bcZw1L

There’s an odd moment in this WaPo story about how the other women Trump assaulted are dealing with the current trial… wapo.st/4bcZw1L

Stormy Daniels court appearance reopens wounds for Trump’s #MeToo accuserswapo.st Some of the women who have publicly accused Trump of kissing or touching them inappropriately — sometimes alleging assault — are watching his campaign to return to public office with alarm.

It’s this response from his lawyer, Todd Blanche.

Mr Blanche is no traffic court lawyer… he is an experienced attorney with a sterling reputation. Or, he had one. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/n...

Trump’s Trial Lawyer Gambled a Gilded Manhattan Career to Represent Himwww.nytimes.com Todd Blanche was a prosecutor and worked for a prestigious firm. Now, he is the principal lawyer for Donald Trump as he becomes the first former president to face prosecution.

The letter misrepresents the gag order, saying it prevents Trump’s lawyer from responding to the story (no, it doesn’t ) and that the “tenants” of the accusations have been “strongly” refuted. How does a man like that end up taking dictation from his client and signing his name to it?

"How does a man like that end up taking dictation from his client and signing his name to it?" Because that's the only option when you work for Trump. You are his puppet, or you are out. Trump is like alcohol -- working for him shows the world what kind of person you really are.

once you sell your soul, everything else is cheap

I’m sure all it took was a “I’ll sic my horde of inbreds on you” just like everyone else that falls in line seemingly out of character.

I hope he insists on getting paid in advance!

It must be Trump’s unimpeachable history of paying people in a generous and timely manner.

As Gabriel Iglesias said, "The check was fat."

Are there people living inside his client’s head? (Yeah, I know it’s “tenets”)

I'm sticking with my theory that Trump is a mutant or alien with short-range mind control powers, but he's a really stupid mutant, so he uses them to make people do really stupid things.

This is the biggest fucking question! How do so many smart people sign on for this shit? Are they all greedy cowards (Bill Barr)? Are they all compromised (Rudy G)? Are they actually just stupid (Ted Cruz).

Ted Cruz is a lot of things, some of them not very admirable, but is very, very far from stupid.

Dammit, I struggled with the “stupid” one. I feel like his strategy of being universally hated and unbeatable is something only a stupid person would sign up for. That is where that came from. But I’m sure day to day, he has to be razor sharp to walk his walk.

“Prohibits President Trump from causing us, as his attorneys, from addressing the central tenant of your ’story’?” This is a sentence from a lawyer that was ever respected? It’s a mess, and why doesn’t he know the difference between “tenant” and “tenet?"

Everything. Trump. Touches. Dies.

One hopes.

You mean in addition to the use of tenant for tenet?

Thank you. I was going to post something similar. "That darn Autocorrect again."

I get the vibe that Trump heavily influenced that piece. It reads like something he would say.

central "tenant" - he hires only the best attorneys.

One might say that central tenant is living rent-free in Trump’s head.

That made me think Trump or one of his idiot lackeys like Scavino wrote that response for Blanche.

they won’t sue

"...causing us... from addressing": surely that's "...preventing us... from addressing"? and "central tenant": that's obviously "central tenet"?? When he lost his reputation going to work for Trump, he also seems to have lost his command of the English language. Kind of a drag for a lawyer. 😒

"old, and strongly refuted" As if either of those things are relevant in the slightest, particularly in this context.

So trumpian: “Do what you have every legal right to do, and I will sue your socks off!”

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