If you happen to’re contemplating operating for president of the bar affiliation, it behooves you to not be associated to the top of Donald Trump’s personal law firm.
When Paul Hastings companion Brad Bondi introduced his run for D.C. bar president, we already knew where this was going. Whereas some noticed a Machiavellian plot to consolidate Trumpian management over the capital’s ethics watchdog, Bondi’s marketing campaign by no means actually turned on politics. The bar affiliation’s disciplinary perform exists exterior the purview of its president and Bondi’s platform involved itself extra with “CLE” than “MAGA,” however in a political second dominated by a noxious mix of nepotism and cronyism, handing the DC bar over to the Lawyer Normal’s brother was a non-starter.
And it was a blowout.
At a whopping 9 %, we will file this as one of many uncommon events the place “decimated” comes fairly near its literal that means.
Generally it’s honest, generally it’s not, however you may’t at all times get what you need when somebody within the household decides to indulge political ambitions. Jonathan Turley and his Republican buddies waged a multi-year witch hunt primarily based on Hunter Biden having the gall to carry a job whereas his dad was NOT in politics. In that world, the prospects for electing the sitting AG’s brother had been difficult underneath one of the best of circumstances and nigh unattainable whereas she’s busy collecting ethics complaints and positioning the DOJ for sanctions. As we famous earlier, Brad Bondi’s greatest wager was to marketing campaign on being his sister’s most constant and vociferous critic ever since he tore the top off her favourite Barbie. Nicely, his greatest wager would’ve been to get her to resign first… so perhaps his “greatest real looking wager.”
As an alternative, his marketing campaign requested voters to miss the connection totally — an implausible ask — which solely succeeded in making him appear oblivious to overwhelmingly apparent optics.
O-based alliteration! How typically do you see that within the wild?
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