No. of Recommendations: 6
So? One can define "legal services" in all sorts of ways.
No, you can't. "Legal services" actually has a meaning, and one that's very important - with a very large body of law developed around it. Things that are "legal services" end up being treated very differently under the law, because a bunch of privileges and protections attach to the actions of clients and lawyers (and their communications) when the lawyer is actually providing legal services to the client. And those things don't attach when the lawyer is doing something for the client that doesn't actually involve practicing law.
So if I ask my lawyer to draft a contract, that's clearly a legal service. If I ask my lawyer to pick up my dry cleaning, that is not a legal service - even if I pay him for it.
Advancing money to a third party, and later being reimbursed for it, is not a legal service. It doesn't involve the practice of law. There was no retainer agreement that covered those services, and the references to it in Trump's records were false.
Again - you're assuming that Republicans are going to take this abuse from democrats lying down.
Not at all. Rather, recognizing that their power to try to engage in tit-for-tat is somewhat limited. Ham sandwich notwithstanding, a local red state DA isn't going to be able to get an indictment of Barack Obama unless they can articulate a violation of their state's penal code that took place in their jurisdiction. Bragg was able to do that because Trump did commit a violation of the NY penal code in his jurisdiction. That's not going to be the case for most of the flamebreathing GOP DA's that might want to make a name for themselves.
