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#ChrisKrebs joins…growing list of #universities & #LawFirms seeking to push back on #Trump’s efforts to [ab]use the office of the president to attack critics & opponents.
“It’s about the government pulling its levers to punish #dissent, to go after corporate interests & corporate relationships. It’s the same thing we’ve seen w/the law firms, they’ve gone after clearances, they’ve gone after contracts. It’s a novel & expansive strategy they are taking on & it should concern everyone,” Krebs said.

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#LawFirms Made Deals With #Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. [say whaaaaaat?🤯]

Trump, it turns out, has a far more expansive view of what those firms can be called on to do.

Over the last week, he has suggested that the firms will be drafted into helping him negotiate #trade deals.

He has mused about having them help with his goal of reviving the #coal industry.

#law #RevengePolitics #extortion #MafiaState
nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/poli

President Trump has generally hinted that he sees the promises of nearly $1 billion in pro bono legal services that he has extracted from elite law firms as a legal war chest to be used as he wishes.
The New York Times · Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them.By Michael S. Schmidt
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#BorisEpshteyn earned #Trump’s trust by overseeing his legal team after Trump left office & is regularly at the White House, admin ofcls said.

Some of the #LawFirms privately worried about negotiating with a lawyer who wasn’t employed by the govt & didn’t have a govt email address, some of the lawyers said. But they decided talking w/Epshteyn was their best path to avoid a govt investigation or executive order, the people said, after determining he had serious sway w/Trump.

#law#MafiaState
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On Fri alone, 5 #LawFirms including Latham & Watkins and Kirkland & Ellis entered into such deals worth some $600M in pro bono work….

#BorisEpshteyn has NEVER tried a criminal or civil case & carries a white business card that reads, “Boris Epshteyn, Esq.” that lists his Gmail account & a cellphone number. He calls a steakhouse in DC where he hosts meetings every week his unofficial office. His face is caricatured on the wall & the restaurant even stores a portable phone charger for him.

#law
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#Trump’s personal *lawyer* [fixer] #BorisEpshteyn, who has been #indicted in AZ on charges related to Trump’s 2020 election loss, has emerged as the face of Trump’s campaign against large #LawFirms that it views as hostile to the president & his causes, acc/to lawyers at 7 of the firms & WH ofcls. In a series of meetings & phone calls, Epshteyn has extracted large commitments of *pro bono* work for Trump-supported causes & changes to the law firms’ hiring practices to Trump’s preferences….

#law
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#Trump’s $1 Billion Law Firm Deals Are the Work of His Personal Lawyer

#BorisEpshteyn, who doesn’t work for the #US government, has *negotiated* with a series of #LawFirms to cajole them into entering deals

Trump has reached around $1 billion in deals with the country’s top law firms in the past month, using the full weight of his presidency to threaten their business.

#law #extortion #criminal
archive.is/2025.04.14-090329/h

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#Trump said he will use major #LawFirms to do free legal work to support his #trade team's negotiations w/other countries over #tariffs. 4 firms in recent weeks *agreed* to *donate* legal services to him.

"We have a lot of law firms that have paid me a lot of money in the form of legal fees. We're going to probably use those firms...I think we can. I think we're going to try to use these very prestigious firms to help us out with the trade."

#extortion #MafiaState #law
reuters.com/world/us/trump-say

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