Don McGahn was the top attorney for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Trump’s first White House counsel. After being asked repeatedly to take inappropriate actions for Trump, McGahn left the White House. Trump would later call McGahn “a lying bastard.”

Attorney Reince Priebus was the head of the Republican National Committee in 2016, and became Trump’s chief of staff. Priebus left in about six months (a historically brief term for a chief of staff) amid a harsh online attack by Trump’s communications director.

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Sen. Jeff Sessions was an early supporter of Trump’s 2016 campaign and a campaign adviser. Trump made him attorney general. When Sessions recused himself from an investigation into the 2016 campaign, Trump demanded his resignation, backtracked momentarily, eventually fired him, and spent years cursing him.

Pat Cipollone was Trump’s White House counsel during his first impeachment. Trump called him “the worst lawyer ever.”

Bill Barr was Trump’s second attorney general, and Trump now calls him a “gutless pig.”

Trump attorney Evan Corcoran testified against Trump after Trump lied to him and asked him to break the law.

And if we’re talking about ex-Trump lawyers, we of course need to mention Michael Cohen, who was the middleman in paying Trump’s hush money to a porn star with whom Trump apparently had an extramarital affair. Cohen later pleaded guilty to crimes he committed as Trump’s lawyer.

Here’s a Rolling Stone story about the infighting among Trump’s lawyers.

All of this is to say that you would have to be insane to be Donald Trump’s lawyer now.

This is yet another reason why Republicans should not nominate Trump in 2024. Trump's general election campaign would have a hard time attracting decent staff, including attorneys, which makes it more likely he will lose. If he were to win the White House back, he would find it hard to attract honest, law-abiding, competent staff, including attorneys.

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Any Republican will have to fight the bureaucracy, and that will involve competent staff including competent and diligent attorneys.

When we consider how Trump failed to fight the deep state in his one term, there’s no reason to suspect he would have any luck in a second term. Of every Republican running for president, he’s the least likely to successfully battle the entrenched administrative state.