To make the humiliation complete, Donald Trump has apparently lied about the agreement he reached with Brad Karp, chair of the law firm Paul Weiss, in order to cast the terms of surrender as being even worse than they actually were.
According to a four-byline article in The New York Times (gift link), Trump’s claim that Paul Weiss had agreed to end its diversity, equity and inclusion program appears to be false. So, too, is Trump’s assertion that the firm had admitted to “wrongdoing” on the part of former Paul Weiss lawyer Mark Pomerantz, who had worked for the prosecution in Trump’s hush-money trial — you know, the one in which Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies, a verdict that still stands.
The Times reports:
The copy of the agreement that Mr. Karp shared with Paul Weiss differed in some ways from Mr. Trump’s characterization of the deal in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Although Mr. Trump said the law firm had specifically agreed to not follow any diversity, equity and inclusion policies in its hiring practices, there is no reference to D.E.I. in the agreement that Mr. Karp shared. Mr. Trump has mounted an aggressive campaign against diversity initiatives in the federal government, labeling it as a form of workplace discrimination.
There also was no mention of Mr. Pomerantz, the former Paul Weiss partner, in the copy of the agreement circulated by Mr. Karp. Five people briefed on the matter said Mr. Karp said he did not criticize Mr. Pomerantz with the president, in spite of Mr. Trump’s assertion to the contrary.
In a statement issued on Thursday evening, Mr. Pomerantz denied he had done anything wrong.
Karp deserves no sympathy. It was bad enough that he was willing to cut a deal with the extortionist-in-chief rather than stand strong. It’s just interesting that Trump would succeed in this corrupt scheme and then decide that it wasn’t enough. He couldn’t resist the urge to pile on false details that made Karp and his firm look even worse.
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Story tip: The NYT ran a story yesterday that the DoD had invited Elon Musk into a meeting about a possible war with China.
The story was 100% false, debunked by everyone closely involved.
The NYT loses more and more credibility every day.
From Steve Bacher:
It’s even worse than that. The following line appears in the NYT article linked to by DK:
“… concerned that other firms would now face a choice between bowing to Mr. Trump or abandoning their principles or political beliefs to avoid financial calamity.”
Forget for a moment the grammatical error of “between … or”, which is pervasive. The clause isn’t even correctly formulated. The choice is (1) to bow to Mr. Trump AND abandon their principles or (2) to not bow to Mr. Trump and incur financial calamity.
The briefing was canceled after the Times exposed it. It sounds like Musk was acting on his own and that Trump was angry.
If the Columbia Universities and Paul, Weisses of the world won’t stand up to Trump, I don’t know who can.
So who do we believe – the lying liar or a lying lawyer?
Why hasn’t Karp disputed Trump’s statement about what Karp allegedly said about Pomerantz, and by implication the wrongfulness of the NY prosecution?