• Sovereign_13@lemmy.world
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    If this ever gets made into like a docuseries or movie, future generations aren’t going to believe that the legal team of a former President in a civil case was this incompetent.

    Like there’s no way to make said movie and not have it be a comedy of errors.

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      It’s the Trump candidacy, presidency, and aftermath were a TV series, we’d be yelling at the writers to make it more realistic.

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        Someone explained to me that fiction needs to be believable, but reality has no such constraints

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        There will almost certainly be a season of American Crime Story about this one day, but unfortunately not until after it’s over. It will be over one day, right?

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          It will. One criminal charge sticks and Trump’s done. He’s old enough that any of them would be an effective life sentence, and the rest will be bookkeeping.

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      Now hear me out: Arrested Development, Trump version. Think about it. A family of horrible, dumb people dragging each other down. The family father getting caught doing illegal stuff and running the dumbest defense ever. The idiot lawyer holding a press conference on a shitty parking lot next to a porn shop because noone bothered to check if it was the right Four Seasons (still the funniest thing to happen in the last 2,000 years). I can totally see Eric Trump saying “Illusion, Ivanka. Magic is something a whore does for money.”

      The only thing missing is someone decent enough to play Michael (which is saying something, because even Michael was a horrible person).

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      It’s fairly easy to understand, though - his cases are hopeless because he’s plainly guilty. He expects his lawyers to lie for him, endangering themselves, make frivolous arguments, and try anything to delay cases. It raises their profile, but makes them look bad to normal people, and then on top of it, he will simply ignore bills to avoid paying anything. Therefore he’s only left with desperate, incompetent or dumb lawyers. Because nobody reputable would want a client like that.

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        IIRC, his lawyers have been getting paid up front since Kise was hired.

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        Therefore he’s only left with desperate, incompetent or dumb lawyers

        No, they’re dumb. You’re not entitled to legal counsel for civil trials, only criminal ones. That means any lawyer who represents him in the New York case is choosing to do so.

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          Of course they’re doing it voluntarily. What I mean is the group of people willing to work for him is small at this point. And obviously Trump isn’t capable of representing himself.

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      Title it “Fucking Morons” and make it as serious a documentary as possible.

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      It’d be like Dr Strangelove. Start out writing a serious movie, but there’s so much inherently funny stuff to work around that you have to give up and make it a comedy.