I just spent five minutes guffawing at Trump apologists posing here as legal analysts and claiming the #TrumpTapes are a "settlement conference." Yes—that's why a freaked-out lawyer burst in 50 minutes into the call exclaiming, "This whole call is for 'compromise or settlement'!"
If only Trump's Adult Supervision could've apparated 50 minutes *earlier* on the #TrumpTapes—before Trump, on a call that didn't involve all the parties to the litigation, threatened to use his DOJ to prosecute Raffensperger if Georgia's SoS didn't rig the election results.

Sad!
In my years practicing law I participated in 2,000+ negotiations. I don't care if—on the front end—Trump's lawyers thought of what they were doing as a settlement conference. When Trump started committing crimes, they needed to get themselves and their client off the phone. ASAP.
"I couldn't tell my client 'no' because he's the POTUS" isn't a defense to criminal liability for conspiracy to commit election fraud (or to a disbarment). If you're an attorney for a client over whom you can't exert basic professional control, you need to withdraw from the case.
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