(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . I am grateful that Trump and his sons aren't as "smart" as Javanka, who excel at hiring attorneys [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-06-28 As an antidote to their annoying smiles, you might like this article about how Steve Bannon, who came up with the name "Javanka," once savaged them, although it has nothing to do with what follows. *** I never thought I would say Ivanka and Jared are “smart” about anything because I believe that they are ignorant and stupid, self-entitled, eschew loyalty when it doesn’t suit them, and are shallow, and self-serving criminal opportunists, whose loyalty to our country is questionable at best. However, there is one area in which Ivanka and Jared excel. They hire the best lawyers, listen to them, and pay them. It seems as if the reason that Ivanka was freed from AG Leticia James’ case fraud against her father, the Trump organization, her brothers, and herself, is because, as reported by Forbes on April 26, 2023, a few weeks earlier she had split from being represented by the same attorneys who were representing Donald Jr. and Eric, and she hired her own attorney Bennet J. Moskowitz of Troutman Pepper, who previously represented the Jeffrey Epstein estate. According to AP news on June 27, 2023, “In a ruling on Tuesday, the Appellate Division of New York’s Supreme Court dismissed the claims against Ivanka Trump, ruling that they were barred by the state’s statute of limitations. While claims over alleged wrongdoing after February 2016 were permissible, the court said, Ivanka Trump had stepped back from involvement in the Trump Organization and wasn’t accused in the lawsuit of any misconduct during that later time period.” To summarize: First, Ivanka was smart enough to step away from her involvement in the Trump organization. Second, possibly in March, 2023, she stepped away from her father and brothers in the fraud case, and she hired her own attorney. Equally important, during all of the Trump drama, and lawsuits, and while Daddy Dearest, Donald Jr., and Eric continued to spew forth their stupidity, hatred, anti-American rhetoric, and attacks against everyone they disagree with, Ivanka and Jared have remained silent. “On June 20, 2023, Donald Trump said his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner will not serve in his administration if he is elected president again in 2024 because it was ‘too painful for the family’ last time.” (Too painful for them: What about us?) *** In terms of Jared’s experience in hiring attorneys, I’m not sure if we all are aware, that in March of 2017, Jared hired Jamie Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton and a former member of the 9/11 Commission, to represent him. Although Gorelick had worked for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and was a super star in Democratic political circles, a mutual friend had advised Jared “he needed a real lawyer to sort through nepotism and conflict-of-interest concerns that could bar him from working in the White House for his father-in-law, President Donald Trump.” And, Gorelick ended up taking on Javanka—when Ivanka joined the White House—despite all of the blowback from Ms. Gorelick’s democratic colleagues, friends and clients. On June 7, 2017, Jared added Abbe Lowell, one of the country’s leading criminal defense lawyers (and another Democratic super star), to his legal team to represent him “because of Special Counsel Mueller’s probe of potential Russian collusion with the Trump campaign and his financial dealings, as well as in separate congressional inquiries.” I don’t need to go into the specifics of what transpired, because the fact is that neither Jared nor Ivanka were indicted. Javanka’s purpose was to eliminate their legal problems so they could join the Trump administration, grift to their hearts’ content (which they did), enrich their brand (which they did), and their reputations (which they didn’t). Despite their desire for publicity throughout the Trump administration, and their shared megalomania, they evidently understood that using lawsuits, suggesting alleged Russian collusion, among other abuses, to draw attention to themselves was not the path they wanted to take. In the past, most Americans, other than domestic terrorists, White Nationalists, and a minority of extremist Republicans, would have felt being associated with anti-American activities isn’t something to aspire to. But, we can be grateful that former president Trump, Donald Jr. and Eric never learned that lesson from Javanka’s legal troubles, and continue to act as stupidly, and seditiously, as we could hope for. I realize that ranting against American democracy has worked for Daddy Trump thus far, but I think it will end, once he is indicted for leading and participating in the Insurrection and the coup, and plotting to overturn the 2020 election. The fact that Trump hasn’t listened to his attorneys, and doesn’t pay them, is undoubtedly why he can’t find any top tier attorneys to represent him any longer. *** FYI...If you have moral issues with the fact that two very powerful Democratic attorneys chose to work for Javanka, so do I. Personally, I think their morals suck, but you will be relieved (or not) to know that on December 21, 2022, Hunter Biden hired Abbe Lowell “to coordinate his response to anticipated congressional oversight investigations, as well as advising him on other legal issues and overall strategy.” [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/28/2178175/-I-am-grateful-that-Trump-and-his-sons-aren-t-as-smart-as-Javanka-who-excel-at-hiring-attorneys Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/