"As a lawyer, I can confirm that..."

[DetlefK]

Link to tweet

As a lawyer, I can confirm that I frequently compose tweets confessing to crimes and send them from my clients’ twitter accounts. It’s the first thing you learn at law school.

[ExciteBike66]

1. I didn't know Trump U also had a law school! nt

[DesertRat]

22. LOL nt

[niyad]

42. it's a satellite of liberty law school.

[Drahthaardogs]

2. Kicked cuz this made me laugh.

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[Gothmog]

3. LOL

[Irish_Dem]

4. So the Trump team is either lying or idiots. nt

[dchill]

9. Not mutually exclusive.

[Irish_Dem]

11. I stand corrected. Trump team is lying and stupid.

You are right, of course.

[dchill]

12. It's the idiocy that makes the lying so hilarious.

[Irish_Dem]

14. It is all quite comical true. Except for the part that they could blow up the world. nt

[dchill]

16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...

The movie was funny. The humor doesn't exactly translate to reality, though.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Yes, living it is less amusing. nt

[Alice11111]

24. Lately, Slim Pickens riding the bomb has been a head worm.

Yah-hoo,

and, "There ain't no time to wonder why,
Yippee, we're all going to die."

Makes me want to put my head under my tiny desk top.

So much winning!!!

[NewJeffCT]

5. Maybe next, Attorney Dowd

can tweet out that he contacted the Russians to interfere in the elections on Trump's behalf

[malaise]

7. If Dowd was lying about this

he could be in serious trouble

[PJMcK]

18. Has Dowd violated any laws or ethics rules? (n/t)

[NewJeffCT]

19. I believe he has

According to attorney Seth Abramson, he could be disbarred for this action. At the least, a lengthy suspension would be in order.

Link to tweet

[PJMcK]

20. Thanks

Trump's whole team is corrupt. They need to be brought down.

[malaise]

21. Disbarred for the Con

wouldn't that be lovely

[Motley13]

39. he IS a lawyer!

[Alice11111]

29. He could be in serious trouble anyway, as he violates

Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyers. REALLY, REALLY stupid. There are Common discussions among lawyers about people tending to hire lawyers who reflect their personality. Some people want an agressive SOB, others are methodical and careful, some want to control every detail and get upset if the lawyer won't break the rules to do what they want.


Seems like rules. Laws, regs, and norms are ignored by these crazy aggressive neanderthals...no offense to neanderthals. If the Clintons or Obama had a lawyer doing this BS, it would be all we would be hearing about.

[snort]

45. According to my recent genome test,

I'm 4 percent neanderthal. You need to apologize to 4 percent of me, otherwise, Og no happy, Og sad. Grunt.

[Alice11111]

46. As I stated, no offense intended, meaning neanderthals

are superior to the RW. To the 4pc of you,

[sheilahi]

15. And of course the base will believe it.

And then he can tweet that it was actually him on that Access Hollywood bus doing a drop dead impression of the mouth breather.

[Alice11111]

33. Every word is the gospel truth.

[mgardener]

6. Funny but not a laughing matter

Trump should have to explain, under oath, how that tweet was sent to the American people.
And pay the price for lying.

[dalton99a]

8. Good one

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Trump's lawyer should get disbarred.

Not that I don't believe that lawyers cross the line in order to protect their money generating clients. I have seen it in action on a local level. What I haven't seen is the lawyers getting disbarred over it.

[Alice11111]

32. Bill Clinton got disbarred, but then he was a Dem and a Clinton.

This administration has and had a whole gaggle of lawyers around them who should get their licenses suspended or be disbarred, including Pence, Sessions (I filed a Disciplinary Complaint against him in Alabama), Christi, Giuliani, Kellyanne, McTurtle, Gorsuch, Kushner....

I agree I have seen people do things all of the time that warrant suspension or disbarment. They usually walk and move on to higher things.
I've been made fun of before because I wouldn't do illegal or unethical things, and I'm not a rigid stickler, but many people virtually ignore the rules. Then, some mess up bigly, or offend the wrong people, and get disciplined.

[Baitball Blogger]

38. You're my doppleganger.

"They usually walk and move on to higher things."

Leaving you to lose respect for the state's bar association. Doesn't it?

[Alice11111]

41. Yes! One lawyer told my client, out of my presence, that she

needed to pay him $1000 or she would go to jail. Lawyers are not allowed to talk to other lawyers clients. I was out of the courtroom on a bathroom break, in, oddly, a complicated lawyer malpractice case, involving a lot of lawyers, and this attorney went to the other side of the courtroom to sit down by her and scare her to death. She was a naive elderly lady. A few nights later, I was talking to her on the phone the night before court, and she said, in response, " that's why I gave him $1000, because he told me I could go to jail if I didn't pay him."

I was dumbfounded. By morning, I had prepared various Motions to Sanction the lawyer, to present to the court before court started. He said, he took her check, but he never intended to cash it. He was going to give it back. (Sounds like an argument Trump would make). The Court of course was mad. The judge held him in Contempt of Court. He was ordered to pay my client back, plus another $1000 for a penalty, and her attorney fees. The funds were to be paid out of his own pocket, not his firm's. He was ordered to write a formal apology to my client, stating the rules he had violated. Plus, he had to self report to the bar, basically file a complaint against himself. Five years later he was President of the State Bar.

I could tell you more stories, and I'm sure you know many too.

[Baitball Blogger]

44. What we need in the world are more lawyers like

Algernon Sydney Sullivan. A lawyer who made it to the top of his profession by holding other lawyers in check of their professional ethics.

Sounds like you're one of them.

[Alice11111]

47. Thank you. For me, it is pretty much limited to violations

against my clients or in my cases, which is a full time job, though there have been times someone did something so egregious, that they had to be taken down, a few judges. You really don't get paid for that, and I have spent many all nighters working on it. Some of the small stuff you have to let go, or you will never get anything done substantively. However, sometimes, regardless of the time, cost to me, damage to the body from ridiculous hours, some of those unethical, ruthless, bully jerks have to be taken to the woodshed. They will only cross me once.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

13. I know non-lawyers don't believe this.

Lawyers really aren't supposed to lie about things that matter.

Mr. Dowd has gotten himself into quite a corner.

Transactions With Persons Other Than Clients
Rule 4.1 Truthfulness In Statements To Others

In the course of representing a client a lawyer shall not knowingly:

(a) make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person; or

(b) fail to disclose a material fact to a third person when disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting a criminal or fraudulent act by a client, unless disclosure is prohibited by Rule 1.6.

[Alice11111]

35. Thank you for quoting it. Yes, non lawyers don't believe it,

and some lawyers ignore it. There are ethical lawyers though, contrary to common opinion. I think the decline in ethics is getting worse all of the time. The judges I know say so too. I suppose the profession is declining along with society in ethics.

[gademocrat7]

23. Too funny.

[smirkymonkey]

25. ROFL!

[Kablooie]

26. Hey he reads DU. That's my line I wrote a couple of days ago.

[NJCher]

52. it doesn't have to be word for word

to be plagiarism, as I'm sure you know. Did you post this at DU?

[Kablooie]

53. Yep. Here's my post.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1928853

[NJCher]

54. INCREDIBLE! Your thoughts were taken!

How do you feel about that?

[underpants]

27. Only the BEST PEOPLE

[DetlefK]

31. Well, the best lawyers REFUSED to work for Trump because of his habit of not paying up.

Dowd is not the best. Dowd is the best of what Trump can get.

[delisen]

28. I am your lawyer. Your crimes are my crimes.

Your tweets are my tweets. We are in this together, deeply.

[Faux pas]

30. Lol Oh snap!

Brilliant

[L. Coyote]

34. Otherwise, these things drag on and you have too many billable hours.

That's the second thing you learn at law school, avoid billable hours at all costs.
Pass on the costs to the state.

[syringis]

36. As lawyer, I can confirm...

...that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard from another lawyer.

He must have found his degree in a cereal box !

Let's say his tale cheks out, the fact remains that Trump is responsible for what it is written on his Twitter account.

[Alice11111]

48. as is the lawyer with the cereal box degree

[HeartlandDem]

37. Thanks for the laugh...

I really needed it this morning.

[efhmc]

40. Really laughed at that one.

n/t

[jimlup]

43. The willful ignorance of his supports is stunning

[louis-t]

49. Giggety.

If dump paid his bills, he might be able to hire REAL lawyers.

[C Moon]

50. Why the hell would a lawyer be dumb enough to be the fall guy for Trump.

Either Trump promised him a pardon, should he get caught;
or, the lawyer is in this as deep as the rest of the scum-traitors.

[FM123]

51. And the second thing you learn at law school:

Is to talk really loud about your case while eating lunch outside with a whole bunch of people listening, especially journalists that work next door.