HGoTW: Susan Necheles

Look, I get that everybody deserves affirmative representation in court, but it is not unreasonable to expect attorneys to prevent their clients from being absolute fuckwads.

This episode of the Human Garbage of the week is Trump lawyer, Susan Necheles.

If you are at all following the trials and tribulations in criminal court as the tangerine tinged rhinoceros is in the final stretch before his rial begins, you probably realize that Trump has a habit of walking right up to the edge of what is allowed (and often he tests the boundaries) to say nothing of human decency.

The latest kerfuffle are the vicious attacks on the family of the trial judge, Juan Merchan¹. The filth and slander slung at the judge’s daughter who works in a media company that offers services to politicians, but ones that lean left rather than right. The attack:

From 2016, this acknowledges Trump’s penchant for needling judges who stand in judgement:

Trump’s statements are part of a years-long pattern of attacking members of the judiciary in often-personal terms. In 2016, Trump attacked Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who oversaw a case related to Trump University, suggesting that Curiel couldn’t be impartial because of his ethnicity and because Trump promised to build a wall on the border with Mexico. Trump argued that Curiel’s judgment was clouded because “he’s a Mexican.” Curiel, whose parents are from Mexico, was born in Indiana.

The article is at this shared link: “Trump ramps up attacks on judges, sparking concerns as criminal trial nears”, published in the WaPo.

The two principal trial attorneys representing the overly bronzed senior citizen as he stumbles his way through his first criminal trial are Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche. Blanche is his own kind of douche-nozzle, and his thrashing about the bum that the Honorable Judge Merchan doled out on Monday March 25th when he was slapped silly for his contention that the SDNY evidence drop warranted a minimum of a 90 day delay. Yeah, that was delish to watch.

No, this one is for his co-attorney, Susan Necheles.

High powered attorney Susan Necheles

By all accounts, she is a sharp, skilled, and respected attorney. Many who have worked with and opposing her have admitted that she is a damn good attorney.

And you know that when Judge Merchan laid down the law on the carefully crafted gag-order, Trump called them into a room for some brainstorming to figure out where he could vent his spleen, and his lawyers interpreted that he was a-ok just going medieval on the family members of the Judge, the DA, and the like.

Imagine being a member of the bar and having someone like Trump pushing you to do shit like a critical reading to look for loopholes to be a completely garbage person. But the reason she wins this week is that she and co-counsel Blanche filed a motion defending the egregious attacks on the judges family:

In their own Monday filing, Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche, Trump’s lawyers, argued that Trump has clear rights protecting his speech as a citizen and candidate.

“Under these circumstances, President Trump must be permitted to speak on these issues in a manner that is consistent with his position as the leading presidential candidate and his defense, which is not intended to materially interfere with these proceedings or cause harm to anyone,” the filing said. (emphasis mine)

C’mon, are you so fucking broken that you can sleep with yourself for enabling this abysmal behavior? Do you have no decency?

For this, you are Sweaty’s Human Garbage of the Week.

The runner up

After I had selected Susan, I heard that somehow Trump had posted the reduced bond of $175M. Turns out that a California businessman who has run a financial organization that preys on the financial illiterate to fleece them on sub-prime auto loans.

Hankey, a Trump supporter who made a fortune providing high-interest auto loans to customers with poor credit, soon reached out to Trump’s team to negotiate a deal that would allow Trump to stay the penalty while he appealed a massive New York civil fraud judgment. But when a court reduced the bond to $175 million last week and Trump said he had the cash to post it himself, the matter seemed moot, Hankey told The Washington Post. (link)

I must note that his name, “Hankey” makes me think of the early era South Park character that reappeared a few times, Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo.

Yeah, he is shit.

1. Trump has a history of sneering at Hispanic jurists, painting them as “illegals”. Truly disgusting.