Trump’s Lawyers Are Making Major Mistakes

 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/14/trump-trial-lawyers-mistakes-00157734

These decisions are so obviously wrong as a strategic matter that it is frankly hard to believe that Trump’s defense team all agreed with them. These lawyers are not a bunch of hacks, and they aren’t dumb either. We may never know what went on within Trump’s legal team headed into this trial — most if not all of that information is likely to remain shielded from public view — but they almost certainly tried and failed to talk Trump down from some of these approaches.