Hes seen as evangelicals 2nd coming. They're too blind and brainwashed to see he's really the anti christ they've all walked about for years... and they've sold their souls to him and he'll. Makes me almost wish I believed.

You sold your souls dudes, if you had one.

COLLABORATORS or QUISLINGS...

They may be able to. Under contract law, one side is not entitled to unilaterally change h the terms of the agreement.

What did these naive idiots think would happen?

Time and again some fool thinks they have made a “deal” with Trump only to have Trump fuck them over. You know what he is. You have seen it for years. Yet you think somehow this time will be different. You think that somehow you are special compared to all the other fools he has screwed.

As for trade deals? I thought Trump was the great deal maker so what does he need these lawyers for?

it that just everyday people know better than to make a deal with this devil and these supposed smart lawyers are dumb enough to make a sketchy deal with the orange one.

Give that SOB an inch and he takes a light-year. I thought that was common knowledge by now?

The imperial mango's lawlessness continues, without consequences.

They are probably violating clients confidentality and giving information to Trump and his regime to use for blackmail and extortion

Or
Until they show spine
And
Take them to court over this

Per Rachael Maddow last nite

Now he’s unilaterally broken that agreement by imposing tariffs on their goods, saying the deal he negotiated in 2018 was a terrible deal.

It’s what he does. He’s untrustworthy.

Where are these agreements?
Who are they with? trump, or the US Govt?
Can someone else see them?
What's been agreed to?

And file briefs/make arguments in court that were pedestrian and in contravention of established precedent -- a kind of elaborate ruse. But now that I think about it, doing so would probably just mean he'd try to extract more from them, as if that isn't already the plan.

DumbFucks…..

Why they’re giving in so easily is beyond me. Fear and intimidation can be awfully powerful weapons.

Any firm that tries to appease trump will live to regret it deeply

Especially one who is known to renege on deals . . .

It will be interesting to see how this plays out for firms who capitulated. If he succeeds in changing the terms of the deal, it does make the "pro bono" proffer a lot more damaging to the firms, since (as others have pointed out) if the service is owed to Trump/the administration it creates a lot of conflicts with the traditional work of these firms (which is often on the opposite side of the v from the government). Ironically, it was those very clients that some of those firms claimed as the reason they needed to make the deals in the first place.

many of whom were in fields that required their attorneys have access to security clearances and government facilities.

But no one who cares about democracy should be giving any business to law firms, colleges, media - those firewalls of democracy - when they just flop over and play dead.

Trump was elected. Congress was elected. So far, Congress is ratifying Trump's power grab by waiving its power to require a vote on ending his emergency resolutions (the authority for most of what he is doing).

Treason isn't just doing things that turn out badly for the US (like tariffs that tank the stock market). It requires waging war on the US, or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Despite trump's cozy relationship with Putin, it almost certainly doesn't (yet anyway) rise to the level of treason.

What did they think would happen?

Give it up today and he’ll demand it every day.

I wonder what “goods” Trump has on them?

in the regime?

now.

You dumbfucks never learned that you,
NEVER APPEASE A DICTATOR!
Jump now because you will hate yourself for life kissing the orange ass.
HE OWNS YOU!! Fucking no standards. They should be disbarred for teaming with a dictator.
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE you rich bastards.
Sold out by lawyers.
Fitting if the trials were held in Nuremberg, Pa.

I WISH and HOPE these cavers will get what’s ultimately coming to them, but they tend to be snakes. And snakes have a way of slithering under cover.

Ben Meiselas on Meidas touch says this and it is absolutely true.

Once you give into a blackmailer, then you should expect further demands

Every lawyer becomes a Mob lawyer.

continue making ever more stringent demands.

or just "handshake" agreements. It could make a lot of difference.

trump never honors his agreements/contracts and so this is not surprising
https://bsky.app/profile/morgfair.bsky.social/post/3lmxdazf2cs27

Link to tweet

known better.