Trump lawyer Todd Blanche sued for malpracticeA lawyer representing Donald Trump in multiple cases is facing legal troubles of his own, New York Law Journal reports.
Todd Blanche and his former law firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, are being sued for malpractice by twin brothers Adam Kaplan and Daniel Kaplan, who allege Blanche and Cadwalader forged their signatures on a retainer agreement and “severely” overbilled them while they were the subject of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe.
The Kaplan brothers also reportedly allege their former attorneys are now refusing to turn over their case file to their new lawyers.
People Magazine reports that “Blanche's move to represent Trump came as the politician reportedly struggled to assemble a team of respected defense lawyers, the Washington Post reported in April. Retaining counsel for his arraignment on Tuesday appeared just as challenging, a trust legal source tells PEOPLE.”
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In the fall of 2022 an attorney representing Donald Trump sought to avert charges in the classified documents case by negotiating a settlement with the Justice Department, but Christopher Kise never got the chance.
His plan to “take the temperature down” was rejected by the former president, The Washington Post reports.
Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany write for The Post that “That quiet entreaty last fall was one of many occasions when lawyers and advisers sought to get Trump to take a more cooperative stance in a bid to avoid what happened Friday. The Justice Department unsealed an indictment including more than three dozen criminal counts against Trump for allegedly keeping and hiding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.”
Former Trump attorney Alex Cannon in the fall of 2021 repeatedly urged the former president to return documents to the National Archives, according to the report, which notes that he repeatedly admonished him that he was required to do so.
His warning to Trump that the National Archives threatened to go to Congress or the Justice Department if Trump declined to return the documents was brushed off by the former president, the report said.
“It’s mine,” Trump said, according to the report.
As the National Archives ramped up pressure on Trump to return the documents, the former president grew defiant according to the report, which notes he brought in new years, including Evan Corcoran.
Corcoran has since provided testimony that’s central to the case against Trump indicating the former president urged him to “stonewall” or decline to comply with a subpoena.
“I really don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t, I don’t want you looking through my boxes,” he said, Corcoran is cited in the indictment as saying.
Trump also said, according to Corcoran’s testimony, “Well, what if we, what happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?” and “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything there?”
Read More Here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/14/trump-indictment-classified-documents-settlement/Harvard psychiatrist gives psychological reasons for Trump keeping those documents
Donald Trump held on to important classified documents in part because they made him feel "greater in his own mind," a retired Harvard psychiatry professor said on Wednesday.
Dr. Lance Dodes, a retired assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who previously broke down Trump's "severe, continuous, mental disturbance" for Raw Story, appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell to discuss Trump's mental state following his first federal indictment. O'Donnell asked if there was "a psychiatric explanation for why he kept those documents after the federal government demanded them and his attorneys told him to give them back."
"My guess would be that it makes greater in his own mind," Dodes said. "Now, he has secret documents, which he had when he was president, but if he loses the presidency, at least he has the secret documents."
Dodes added that, "It's like having a badge on your four years old that says you're a secret policeman."
"I think it's something like that. He needs it for himself," he explained.
Dodes further predicted that, as Trump's legal troubles continue to grow, he will "look worse and worse."
"That is the psychiatric explanation. He is fundamentally different from normal people. We'll see more and more of that," the psychoanalyst said.
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