Trump’s New Lawyer Has Been Fawning Over Him Since High School
Here are just a few highlights from the résumé of Donald Trump’s latest lawyer: amateur poet... twice suspended from the Florida bar... and—perhaps most importantly—the man who helped fabricate a “ladies’ man” yearbook award for Trump when they were classmates at a junior military academy.
The attorney, local Florida lawyer Peter Ticktin, is Trump’s man on the ground for his latest legal salvo—a sprawling, conspiracy theory-laden broadside against Hillary Clinton and nearly 50 loosely affiliated co-defendants, all of whom Trump levels with conspiring to “weave a false narrative” to deprive him of the presidency in 2016.
The suit—which includes charges of “injurious falsehoods,” “theft of trade secrets,” and “conspiracy to commit racketeering”—has been ripped as a fantasy and “a press release.” But Ticktin and his lead counsel, Alina Habba, are taking it seriously.