• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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.