Everyone's focused on Starr and Dershowitz, but for me, the real audacity is Sekulow and Bondi.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Sekulow is elbow's deep in involvement in Trump's corruption. From encouraging Michael Cohen to lie about the Trump Tower meeting to attempting to obtain a visa under false pretenses to bring Viktor Shokin into the country in the hopes that would help him spew dirt on Joe Biden, Sekulow's has been everywhere. I can't think of a case off the top of my head where the lawyer defending a client is so blatantly a co-conspirator to his client's activities....maybe there are some mob cases like that, but you don't see it, for good measure.

And then you have Pam Bondi. Now think about all the facts of this case. Quid pro quos, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt prosecutors overlooking corrupt businesses, corruption of the legal system in general.

Pam Bondi was attorney general for the State of Florida. There was an open investigation into Trump University. Pam Bondi dropped that investigation and promptly received and $25,000 political donation from Donald Trump.

We were supposed to believe that Joe Biden coerced Ukraine into firing a prosecutor supposedly investigating a company his son was associated with (news flash: nothing about that actually happened in real life) which if it were actually true (again, it wasn't) would have been a prime example of corruption....and then irony of all ironies, you bring Pam Fucking Bondi onto your team.

It's like someone accused of murder bringing Ted Bundy on as defense counsel.

This all is just so incredibly unbelievable and distasteful beyond all belief.

[The Blue Flower]

1. Truly a tangled nest of vipers

I'm thinking that they're all crooked and all divas. I'm expecting some serious in-fighting that will ultimately work out for the good.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. I so wanted Rudy to join the team.

If the Senate Republicans are going to be spineless cowards and vote to acquit regardless, at least watching Rudy Giuliani's self-incriminating theatrics would make the whole spectacle well-worth it.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

6. Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! Rudy! - He would be a perfect fit; a perfect evil fit. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Bondi's history sounds like she got bought Florida style,

[dalton99a]

4. Sekulow is an underrated crook

In November 2005, Legal Times published an article which alleged that Sekulow "through the ACLJ and a string of interconnected nonprofit and for-profit entities, has built a financial empire that generates millions of dollars a year and supports a lavish lifestyle—complete with multiple homes, chauffeur-driven cars, and a private jet that he once used to ferry Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia." In the article, former donors and supporters claimed that Sekulow engaged in a pattern of self-dealing to finance his "high-flying lifestyle." According to a ranking by the American Institute of Philanthropy, a charity watchdog group, Sekulow was the 13th highest paid executive of a charitable organization in the United States.[5]

ACLJ's and CASE's tax returns show that between 1998 and 2011 they paid more than $33 million to Sekulow, members of his family, and businesses owned or co-owned by them;[19] from 2011 to 2015, the two charities paid $5.5 million to Sekulow and members of his family, and $23 million to their businesses.[14] Since 2011, donations to ACLF are routed through Sekulow's family-run CASE,[14][20] and many "transactions that benefit members of the Sekulow family are disclosed on the CASE returns, but not the ACLJ's."[19][20] Between 2011 and 2015, the ACLJ, the "public face of the two nonprofits," collected nearly $230 million in charitable donations.[14]

On June 27 and 28, 2017, The Guardian reported that documents obtained by them confirmed later that "millions in donations" were steered to his family members,[21] that Sekulow "approved plans to push poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60m to Sekulow, his family and their businesses",[21] and that attorneys general in New York and North Carolina opened investigations of Sekulow's CASE for possibly using pressure tactics in telemarketer calls to raise money which was allegedly misdirected to Sekulow and his family.[22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sekulow

[Turbineguy]

5. Honest people don't gyrate into the trump vortex.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. How is a scumbag like Trump going to get an ethical lawyer to represent him?

He's a sleazy guy; he gets sleazy lawyers to represent him because he can relate to them and nobody else wants to work for him.

[SergeStorms]

8. ...."distasteful beyond all belief."

What else would you expect from Donald Trump though? The most tasteless and crude individual on the planet would never hire respectable Attorneys to defend him.

[stuffmatters]

9. Can there be disbarment hearings for each of them?

Seems like a good way to expose them and more of the Trump Crime Factory as well. There would certainly be no "executive privilege" excuse for either of them in their own disbarment procedures.

[Fritz Walter]

10. Lawyer-jokes will grow exponentially soon

“What do you call trump’s impeachment defense team at the bottom of the ocean?”
“A good start!”

“How does a trump defense attorney sleep?”
“Well, first s/he lies on one side, then s/he lies on the other.”

“ What do you call trump’s defense team skydiving?”
“Skeet.”

Feel free to adapt your favorite lawyer joke, or — better still — share one unique to this team of sewer rats. And, yes I know: that’s unfair to the four-legged vermin.