Jay Sekulow, certified A-Hole

I have never met Jay Sekulow. I don't know that I've ever been in the same state as Jay Sekulow. But I know the type, and he is certainly the type.

From what I've gathered about him, he is one of those well-connected lawyers who never actually got good at the "lawyering" thing and instead has relied on connections, etc., to live a "rich lawyer" lifestyle. Fake it 'til you make it, as they say. Now, of course, thank you to James Comey, the Russians, and roughly 100,000 disaffected rural white people in three states, we all know the name Jay Sekulow and are "treated" to his legal "analysis" on a regular basis.

After seeing his tour de force crap on Sunday, I was amused to see this on one of the lawyer industry blogs I read. Some highlights:

According to Sekulow, the hubbub over the meeting could only be #FakeNews because the Secret Service wouldn’t have let it take place if it were improper.^[1]

Within minutes, social media lit up with sources pointing out that the Secret Service doesn’t perform any such service, a damning indictment one-upped by the revelation that the Service wasn’t even on Trump Jr. at the time. For anyone bothering to stay even a little informed, Sekulow’s appearances came off as buffoonery on parade.

But what if that’s the whole point? While most of us wonder how an attorney could go on television and marry his client to such a flimsy, easily disproven defense, it’s just possible that Sekulow’s playing the con perfectly.

Another quote:

Still, that any attorney would go on television so ill-prepared that he’d do this kind of damage to his client and his cronies strains credulity.  

Wow. Politics and assholery aside, this is pretty damning commentary on Sekulow's legal work. Here is the advice offered to Mr. Sekulow:

Sekulow doesn’t defend Jr., Kushner, or Manafort. But, as we’ve been saying for months, this is a white-collar matter, and like most white-collar matters, attorneys need to begin from the premise that every friend or family member as a trusted partner… and also a potential lump underneath the proverbial bus. “Mr. Trump knew nothing of the meeting, and relied only on the reports he received from people he had no reason to distrust” is a perfectly fine answer. Making up a phantom Secret Service vetting process is not. 

I can't resist this:

Sekulow’s legal career consists in large part to running a charity to buy very nice toys for himself. 

Finally, the punchline:

But of course to believe Jay Sekulow is a master showman, one would have to dismiss all those videos of his rock band.
That’s not so easy.

And . . . . . . microphone drop.