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Trump’s Lawyer

May 12, 2016

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According to some former colleagues, he was a “disruptor” during his tenure as chair of the Federal Election Commission, where he defended the rights of big money interests to promote their agenda in the electoral process. The Donald has at times railed against such scenarios, but that has not been an obstacle to his tight relationship with Jones Day attorney Don McGahn, who is now the campaign’s chief lawyer. Their differing opinions on this issue is not the only reason why “the two Donalds are most curious partners,” writes The Center for Public Integrity’s Carrie Levine. Donald McGahn’s uncle, Paddy McGahn, was Trump’s business lawyer some years ago, “until the alliance cracked in a bitter feud over money,” she explains. The feud arose from the fact that Paddy McGahn was someone Trump owed money to as he worked through one of his bankruptcies, and as part of the effort to reduce the debt his attorneys argued in court that McGahn’s lawyering was defective, and that did not sit well with McGahn, a high-powered New Jersey attorney and Korean war hero, now deceased. He is “probably turning over in his grave” according to an Atlantic City PI lawyer and an old friend. In any case, a key man for Donald Trump is now Paddy McGahn’s nephew Don, “one of the savviest campaign lawyers his money can buy,” according to Levine.

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