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Politics
Ron Elving

Trump has had a lot of lawyers but still longs for his wartime consigliere

Roy Cohn (left) and Donald Trump attend the Trump Tower opening in New York City in October 1983. (Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images)

The language might have been meant to shock, but it was not really a surprise when former President Trump this week responded to his arraignment on federal criminal charges by vowing to return to office and "appoint a real special counsel to go after the most corrupt president in history, Joe Biden, and the whole Biden crime family."

It was also amazing — but in character — that Trump spent the afternoon prior to his arraignment interviewing prospective lawyers to represent him in a legal matter that has been bubbling to a boil for two years.

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