Paul Weiss chair ‘proactively’ threw former partner under the bus in Trump meeting: report

According to a report from the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell, the chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLC, Brad Karp, set the terms of his law firm’s acquiescence to Donald Trump which included him hanging a former partner “out to dry” to please the president.In a report late Saturday, Lowell wrote that Karp and his firm reached out to the president through “back channels” in an effort to get an executive order that would have kept it from representing clients before the federal government withdrawn.According to the report, those negotiations took place over multiple meetings, with Lowell reporting that Trump “had not made any explicit requests of the firm, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.”ALSO READ: ‘I miss lynch mobs’: The secretary of retribution’s followers are getting impatientAs the report notes, it fell on Karp to propose various elements that would please Trump and his inner circle and one of those was, as Lowell wrote, an “extraordinary part of a deal,” was the offering up of former partner Mark Pomerantz, who has d attempted to build a criminal case against Trump during a stint in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.According to Lowell, “The commitments and most notably the sacrificing of Pomerantz were offered up proactively by Karp at a White House meeting this week, the people said.”The report adds that the offer to condemn Pomerantz came about at a second meeting.”Karp returned to the White House on Wednesday to deliver his second proposal that included condemning Pomerantz to Trump and a tight circle of advisers, including chief of staff Susie Wiles, envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s personal counsel Boris Epshteyn,” the report states before adding, “During the roughly three-hour meeting, Trump also called Robert Giuffra of Sullivan and Cromwell, the head of one of Paul, Weiss’s direct competitors, to ask for his input.”In the ensuing statement from the firm, Pomerantz was accused of “wrongdoing.”You can read more here.

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