Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
When taking stock of the troubled lawyers from Donald Trump’s orbit, it’s genuinely difficult to know where to start. Certainly, Rudy Giuliani belongs near the top of the list, given his suspended law license and ruinous defamation case, but he has plenty of company. Indeed, the names of the Trump-affiliated attorneys who’ve run into serious trouble in recent months are likely familiar.
Ultimately, that didn’t happen. The then-president ultimately backed away from the plan to make Clark the acting A.G., not because the plan was stark raving mad — though it certainly was — but because the Justice Department’s senior leadership team threatened to resign en masse if Rosen was ousted. It was around the same time when there was a high-level meeting at which a White House lawyer said that if Trump remained in office despite his defeat, there would be riots nationwide.
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