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Steve Glicken, MD's avatar

“Ra ra, ra ra ruts

Kick Bukele in his nuts!

Ra ra, ra ra ree

Kick Bukele in his nuts again!

And Trump, too!”

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Nick Winney's avatar

they all got that “anus mouth” on ‘em dont they, the Trumpsmen. real anussy mouths.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Part of the selection process, "How's his mouth? Good for the required sphincter whistling?"

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Carolyn Young's avatar

Looks like he just finished blowing orange dick

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River Girl's avatar

I love that Harvard stood up and said No. Columbia University caved like a cardboard box and their decision has doomed their institution. History will remember bravery and scorn the weak.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

Boris Epshteyn, by virtue of self-abasement (not hard for Boris) and making himself Trump's legal firewall for years, avoided the typical fate of The Boss's flatterers--being jettisoned into the sun--for a record time.

That ended when Boris started shaking down potential cabinet appointees for "access." Trump does NOT tolerate others profiting off access to Trump; he wants that grift for himself. So I want to see where this news leads, and I also want to know who leaked it...not Boris, is my guess.

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Anthony Schmitz's avatar

Trump has some idiot talking in his ear as he would never think of this stuff against demacracy.I hope we can impeach him out of the presidency!

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belfryo's avatar

"Surely some of the law firms that have already signed extortion deals could find ways to comply with all that billion dollars of pro bono work they’ve offered Trump in a malicious way?"

well yeah...Just do a shitty job...Free shit is NEVER top tier product...

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mfp-6s,7s,9s's avatar

actually, i'm glad to read this, because it's potentially good news...if these big-law firms are negotiating with that Blubbering Bullshitter Boris in a fucking STEAKhouse, they're probably telling him what he wants to hear, and they havent signed a gawdam binding thing...and B-B Boris is gleefully running to baws trump giggling "look what i got 'em to do baws, look what i got 'em to DOOOOOOO", and they're all giddy AF over having gotten...absolutely nothing of value in writing

kayfabe, all around, 9 ways from sunday

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Shocktreatment's avatar

"I had my foot on the ropes!"

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Nemo's avatar

Here's what I think the law firms should do pro-bono: Take on the case of Abrego Garcia and get him home. That would be true pro-bono work. Anything Trump wants done pro-malo.

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ShrillKitty's avatar

| Maybe they could just do that pro bono work incompetently.

They cannot. Duties to the client, and avoidance of malpractice, require competence.

BUT, as a well-known criminal defense lawyer pointed out to us all in law school, "That means this guy is entitled to my C-game. It doesn't mean he's entitled to my A-game."

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belfryo's avatar

Like throwing a fight...you gotta make it look good...

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GemlikeFlame's avatar

It also means they can bill associate and paralegal time at exorbitant rates. Somebody here estimated that the 5000 or so hours per year vastly exceeds the average of 50 hours per year of pro-bono work and that most firms couldn't possibly maintain that overhead and remain profitable.

I have learned, after seeing many examples, that screwing with a lawyer gets you a whole lot of experienced lawyerly attention dedicated to making sure they're not screwed. Further, lawyers in my experience get very creative when they think they're being extorted.

This is not a winning strategy.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Evan.#Resist!

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Hooker P Tape skipping dipshit's avatar

"If a president can with impunity seek to destroy a law firm because of the clients it represents, then the rule of law itself is in grave danger"

Maybe, maybe not.

-- John Roberts

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beb's avatar

Has anyone seen any of the agreements? As the guy once said, "an oral contract is only as good as the paper it's written on."

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Steely_Fan's avatar

Josh Marshall does his usual excellent analysis of the "agreements" here...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-really-in-the-white-house-law-firm-agreements

...but its paywalled. I can't tell if they'll give you a freebie bc I'm a subscriber.

Bottom line: they're mostly vaporware - but it provides eyewash for the malignant fascist.

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Adny Patridge's avatar

Oskar Schindler practiced malicious compliance.

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Why So Lugubrious?'s avatar

If one of those pro-bono lawyers shows up with an opening statement that contains " "By Grabthar's Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan..." then we will truly know the definition of "and beyond" they were contemplating.

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Let me sum up's avatar

That would be sublime.

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Teresa's avatar

Am I the only one wondering if some of these law firm and university head honchos are maybe on Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs or in his address book? I did read somewhere that Epstein liked to wine and dine academic types and other brainy sorts to burnish his own credibility. Not trying to start a rumor, just really wondering. It doesn't otherwise make sense to me why any of them would capitulate.

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"M"'s avatar

I'm sure Boris is

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