Out of money in a real person way or an Alex Jones way?
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That's my question. Alex Jones spent more in a month than most people make in a year and was still in the process of declaring bankruptcy. Same with the Sacklers pulling some bullshit bankruptcy scheme to avoid paying the settlement for their manufactured drug epidemic.
Always be skeptical when connected people "run out of money." Far too often it simply means they're weaseling their way out of kind of financial consequences.
Maybe some day these lawyers will learn to ask for payment in advance
Or, hear me out as this is probably a crazy idea, not take cases from a crazy cocaine-fueled pillow salesman.
Everyone had a right to fair, good legal counsel. There's just no reason that these lawyers should still be expecting to actually be paid after their efforts
This is a civil case. You actually don't have a right to legal counsel, at least in the US, in civil court. An attorney is not going to get appointed to you if you cannot afford one.
Which is probably a profound injustice, but it is reality. Underdogs get ground to dust because they cannot afford lawyers in places like family/traffic court every day. Violations they cannot possible take legal actions to redress are going on all the time. Because there's no right to an attorney in civil court.
No one is being forced to advocate for or represent this man and frankly, no one should advocate for or represent this man. At least not on his terms. If you chose to take on Mike Lindell as a client, knowing what everyone knows of the kind of defense he is going to demand you proffer, you deserve whatever happens, including not getting paid.
I don't deny that, but on the flipside lawyers are required to take a client (outside of a public defender). They can literally just say "no" and move on with their day.
Have millions selling shitty as seen on TV pillows and blows it on trying to get the orange shit stain an autocracy. Imagine if it worked, every household in America will get a quarterly allotment of a "MyPillow by Lord Mike Liddell".
Ain't woke? Get broke!
He's a lawyer. He should represent himself. Won't cost nothing.
His performance in the deposition told me that he has what it takes.
Man, the trail of carnage in Trump's wake is boggling.