It can’t be easy to serve as a member of Donald Trump’s legal defense team. Their colleagues keep quitting. Others are facing disbarment. Some are facing unwelcome scrutiny from criminal prosecutors. Their client, meanwhile, has struggled to hire new attorneys because no one wants to work for him.
Making matters quite a bit worse is the unavoidable fact that the former president’s lawyers keep losing. Take this week, for example.
Team Trump begged the Georgia Supreme Court to derail a looming indictment from the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, claiming that the ongoing investigation risked violating his “fundamental constitutional rights.” This failed spectacularly: The justices were unanimous in smacking down the case.
Roughly 48 hours later, the former president’s legal team suffered another setback. Reuters reported:
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial after a jury found the former U.S. president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million. In a 59-page decision, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan also dismissed Trump’s arguments for reducing damages to less than $1 million.
Making matters worse, while the federal judge was rejecting Team Trump’s request, the jurist also wrote, “The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’”








