{"id":117151,"date":"2025-04-30T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/30\/sullivan-cromwells-representation-of-trump-is-a-disgrace-and-the-firm-should-be-embarrassed-says-george-conway\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:03:03","slug":"sullivan-cromwells-representation-of-trump-is-a-disgrace-and-the-firm-should-be-embarrassed-says-george-conway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/30\/sullivan-cromwells-representation-of-trump-is-a-disgrace-and-the-firm-should-be-embarrassed-says-george-conway\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan &amp; Cromwell\u2019s Representation Of Trump Is A \u2018Disgrace\u2019 And The Firm Should Be \u2018Embarrassed\u2019 Says George Conway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I get that everyone is entitled to due process and that Bob [Giuffra] and his firm should be able to represent whomever they want. But I told him it was wrong for him to do a favor like that for a guy who is openly trying to destroy our legal and constitutional system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 Former Wachtell partner turned political commentator George Conway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/trump-due-process-freedom-presidency-everyone-else-1235327264\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened up to Rolling Stone<\/a> about the schism in his friendship with <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/the-curious-case-of-sullivan-cromwells-relationship-with-donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sullivan &amp; Cromwell chair Bob Giuffra.<\/a> Conway shared his frank assessment of Giuffra, who served as his best man in his wedding to Kellyanne Conway, \u201cI mean, how appalling is it that Trump \u2014 an outright criminal who should have gone to jail for far more than he was convicted of \u2014 is using his official power to punish lawyers for representing innocent people he doesn\u2019t like and to deny people the very due process he\u2019s getting? And yet there\u2019s [Giuffra\u2019s firm] Sullivan &amp; Cromwell, representing Trump, just so Bob can feel important. It\u2019s a disgrace, and his firm should be embarrassed.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/sullivan-cromwells-representation-of-trump-is-a-disgrace-and-the-firm-should-be-embarrassed-says-george-conway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sullivan &amp; Cromwell\u2019s Representation Of Trump Is A \u2018Disgrace\u2019 And The Firm Should Be \u2018Embarrassed\u2019 Says George Conway<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-669450394-scaled-e1716563574797-300x196.jpg?resize=300%2C196&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGeorge Conway (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>I get that everyone is entitled to due process and that Bob [Giuffra] and his firm should be able to represent whomever they want. But I told him it was wrong for him to do a favor like that for a guy who is openly trying to destroy our legal and constitutional system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Former Wachtell partner turned political commentator George Conway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/political-commentary\/trump-due-process-freedom-presidency-everyone-else-1235327264\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opened up to Rolling Stone<\/a> about the schism in his friendship with <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/the-curious-case-of-sullivan-cromwells-relationship-with-donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sullivan &amp; Cromwell chair Bob Giuffra.<\/a> Conway shared his frank assessment of Giuffra, who served as his best man in his wedding to Kellyanne Conway, \u201cI mean, how appalling is it that Trump \u2014 an outright criminal who should have gone to jail for far more than he was convicted of \u2014 is using his official power to punish lawyers for representing innocent people he doesn\u2019t like and to deny people the very due process he\u2019s getting? And yet there\u2019s [Giuffra\u2019s firm] Sullivan &amp; Cromwell, representing Trump, just so Bob can feel important. It\u2019s a disgrace, and his firm should be embarrassed.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get that everyone is entitled to due process and that Bob [Giuffra] and his firm should be able to represent whomever they want. But I told him it was wrong for him to do a favor like that for a guy who is openly trying to destroy our legal and constitutional system. \u2014 Former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-669450394-scaled-e1716563574797-TpbXzR.jpeg?fit=1881%2C1228&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}