“Who's your Daddy now, punks…!!!”
Small hands, maybe, but these
fit Trump tootsies just fine
This post is an update of an earlier post (seen
here).
Update (by Michael Isikoff): Trump just yesterday flip-flopped already on the
“minimum wage” and now this news. Pretty pathetic I have to say – but, you judge
for yourself.
All the while Trump publicly calls for mass
deportations of all undocumented immigrants, his presidential campaign has
hired a law firm that is fighting against the deportation of thousands of
undocumented refugees from Central America.
Background: After launching his campaign last year
*June 2015, Trump hired as his chief campaign counsel Donald F. McGahn, the former
Republican chairman of the FEC who is now a partner in the DC office of Jones Day, one of the country’s largest law firms, that has more than 2,000 lawyers
around the world.
According to the most recent financial filings, Trump
paid Jones Day $598,109.00 for thus so far, which has included defeating a legal challenge that sought to keep him off the ballot in the NH primary. However, at the same time, they were billing Trump for that
service, they have been actively recruiting partners and associates to provide
free legal services the same population that Trump wants to deport — that is
more than 100,000 people who came here undocumented from El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Honduras. They entered the country unlawfully over the past few
years and have sought asylum on the grounds that they were fleeing gang
violence and other persecution in their home countries.
Jones Day brags at their homepage: “Over 150 lawyers from
almost every U.S. office, and some international offices, are involved in this
extraordinary team effort.” Their effort: provide pro bono services
to those involved – and it’s all on their website, right alongside a series of
videos highlighting the firm’s work with those undocumented people. Their site
also proclaims: “Currently our lawyers are representing individual mothers with
children and unaccompanied children in cases in immigration courts and state
courts throughout the country.”
It is not uncommon for big law firms to take on pro
bono work for clients who might be politically unpopular. For years, major U.S.
law firms were criticized by conservatives — including some officials in the Bush administration
— for providing pro bono legal services to Guantanamo detainees. There is
nothing unethical about lawyers in the same firm representing clients who have
different political agendas.
However, the scale of Jones Day’s work on behalf of
Central American asylum seekers (which earned Jones Day a pro bono award from
the ABA) has struck some as potentially embarrassing for Trump who paid them
over a half million for work.
One sentiment is expressed from a Republican
consultant, Liz Mair, who also founded the Super PAC: “Make America Awesome”
that was trying to stop Trump, said: “I find it highly amusing and somewhat
heartening to know that Donald Trump is indirectly subsidizing the defense of
undocumented immigrants through Jones Day. I can only imagine what the partners
meetings are like.”
- Now, Speaker Paul Ryan says: “I can’t support Donald Trump’s agenda.”
- Trump blasted back in true form: “Well, I can’t support Speaker’s Ryan’s agenda, either.”
- Then Poppy Bush, Dubya, Mittens, and John McCain all say they won’t attend the convention in Cleveland and won’t endorse Trump.
Wow – so nice to see Republicans still killing, or at
least trying to kill, their own, eat them, and hide the evidence. That of
course assumes there is evidence to hide. Hell, knowing those guys, they would
even grind up the bones and mix them with some
vile drink and sell it to undocumented working folks just to earn a few
bucks and potential supporters down the line – would not put it past them one
bit..
What a party this GOP. What a mess. What a hoot. Boy,
do I love watching it.
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