Newsweek – In one way at least, President Donald Trump is honoring his pledge to create American jobs. The market for white-collar attorneys in Washington is booming as Trump’s White House aides lawyer up amid the growing scandal over his campaign’s links with Russia and talk of possible impeachment arising from an obstruction of justice accusation.
“He may well be bringing back white-collar defense jobs in Washington,” Kathleen Clark, an ethics and law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told Politico. “Those are probably not the jobs he intended to create.”
More than a dozen attorneys and crisis communications specialists are already in place working for Trump associates, Politico reported. One person at the heart of the investigation, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, is already being represented by three attorneys.
Trump’s plans for his own legal defense team, however, have been far from smooth. Lawyers with at least four top firms have declined to represent the president, according to a report from Yahoo! News Tuesday. A multitude of reasons were cited, but they include fears that Trump would decline to follow a lawyer’s advice.
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