Trump’s Legal Welfare State
Footing the Bill and Fleecing the Flock
An estimate of the total private legal bills has been pulled from public sources of all of Donald J. Trump’s legal battles. It represents the greatest transfer of wealth since the beginning of taxation, collective farming in Russia, social security and new bitcoin releases. Trump is transferring political contributions and other fleecing activities of MAGA supporters to the multiple law firms that have defended Donald Trump.
Estimated at one billion dollars in lawyer fees, it is equivalent to the gross domestic product of Saudia Arabia. Since all of his businesses have gone out of business and the judged illegal actions of Trump real estate activities indicate the house of cards behind his real estate empire, he needed his unknowing supporters to foot the legal bills. Since the MAGA support kept him out of jail, supported by the sale of sneakers, cologne, NFT trading cards and similar MAGA merchandise, will contribute very little to paying down legal bills, the Donald has relied on his grassroots red collar supporters to pay his already wealthy lawyers and support their trophy wives and children going to Ivy League universities. If the lawyers end up going unpaid, which is common in Trump world for construction subcontractors, the lawyers can be reassured of future contracts with the US Government and future work keeping his associates and cabinet members out of jail.
The brings into question about the role of lawyers in protecting the innocent and the guilty alike and how expensive lawyers can buy a not-guilty verdict above and beyond any proven innocence.
As noted in Shakespearean literature, there is certain take on lawyers in the quote “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers”, from Act IV, Scene II of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II. The line is spoken by a character called Dick the Butcher during a rebellion led by Jack Cade. The quote is often used pejoratively against lawyers, but killing all the lawyers, or at least most of the lawyers, can be seen also in the light that they are fighting for justice that evil and corrupt persons subvert. So which side are the MAGA lawyers? They are really on the side that follows the money, no matter who the guilty party is, and how guilty they are.