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Donald
Trump
is
the
world’s
worst
client.
That’s
it,
that’s
the
tweet.
The
former
president
never
follows
advice
of
counsel;
surrounds
himself
with
sycophants
who
encourage
his
worst
impulses;
regularly
confesses
to
crimes
on
social
media;
and
demands
that
his
attorneys
embarrass
themselves
with
insane
arguments
if
not
outright
lies
to
the
court.
And
today’s
orgy
of
clusterfuckery
in
an
attempt
to
bury
some
very
BAD
FACTS
for
Trump’s
legal
team
is
a
perfect
illustration
of
this
iron
law.
This
morning,
the
Washington
Post
reported
that
Chief
Judge
Beryl
Howell
of
the
US
District
Court
of
DC
told
Trump’s
legal
team
to
go
back
and
search more
to
ensure
that
the
former
president
wasn’t
storing
additional
classified
documents
in
his
pool
locker
or
anywhere
else.
Attorney
Chris
Kise,
the
former
Florida
solicitor
general
who
found
himself
sidelined
from
the
Mar-a-Lago
documents
case
after
advising
his
client
to
turn
the
temperature
down
and
just
give
the
government
back
its
stuff,
finally
succeeded
in
convincing
the
Trump
team
to
hire
an
outside
firm
to
scour
his
properties
for
anything
that
belongs
to
Uncle
Sam.
After
a
search
of
Trump
Tower
in
New
York
and
his
golf
club
in
Bedminster,
Trump
received
a
clean
bill
of
health,
the
Post
informed
us
at
5am.
And
that
was
true,
strictly
speaking.
But
it
wasn’t
complete,
as
later
reporting
from
the
New
York
Times
and
CNN
confirmed.
In
fact,
four
properties
were
searched,
including
a
storage
unit
in
West
Palm
Beach,
Florida
where
the
team
found
two
additional
documents
bearing
classified
markings.
Oopsies!
This
puts
Trump’s
attorneys
Jim
Trusty,
Timothy
Parlatore,
and
Evan
Corcoran,
who
are
handling
the
dispute
over
the
wrongfully
retained
documents,
in
an
awkward
position.
Because
they
spent
close
to
a
year,
first
attesting
that
there
were
no
documents
retained
before
the
FBI
executed
the
warrant,
and
afterward
touting
both
their
client’s
exquisite
cooperation
with
the
DOJ
and
the
completeness
of
their
own
subsequent
search
for
additional
documents.
All
of
which
turned
out
to
be
…
less
than
wholly
accurate.
Kinda
like
that declaration
Corcoran
drafted
and
had
attorney
Christina
Bobb
sign
in
June,
pinky
swearing
that
a
diligent
search
had
been
conducted
and
there
were
no
more
classified
documents
to
be
found
at
Mar-a-Lago.
Meanwhile,
other
attorneys
in
Trumpland
appear
to
have
gotten
the
message
that
they
need
to
run
not
walk
away
from
whatever’s
coming
down
the
pike
from
Special
Counsel
Jack
Smith,
particularly
in
light
of
the
Eleventh
Circuit
dropkicking
Judge
Aileen
Cannon’s
special
master
order.
Both
the
Times
and
the
Post,
which
eventually
went
back
to
its
sources
and
confirmed
the
other
two
searches
conspicuously
left
out
of
its
earlier
reporting,
quote
sources
familiar
with
the
thinking
of
former
Trumpland
lawyer
Alex
Cannon,
who
refused
to
sign
on
to
a
statement
dictated
by
Trump
in
February
attesting
that
all
classified
documents
had
been
returned
to
the
government.
(Hey,
Christina
Bobb!)
The Times
reports
that
Cannon
was
so
worried
about
the
presence
of
possibly
classified
documents
that
he
“warned
others
in
Mr.
Trump’s
circle
not
to
go
through
the
boxes
themselves
because
it
was
unclear
what
was
in
them,
and
people
might
require
security
clearances.”
(Hey,
Jack
Smith!)
In
summary
and
in
conclusion,
there’s
a
reason
Trump
has
trouble
hiring
competent
counsel.
And
there’s
a
reason
that
so
many
of
his
former
lawyers
wind
up
on
the
pointy
end
of
subpoenas
and
bar
complaints.
And
that
reason
is
Donald
J.
Trump.
Items
with
classified
markings
found
at
Trump
storage
unit
in
Florida
[WaPo]
Classified
Documents
Found
in
Trump
Search
of
Storage
Site
[NYT]
Trump
team
finds
two
documents
with
classified
markings
in
a
Florida
storage
unit
[CNN]
Liz
Dye
lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
writes
about
law
and
politics.