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Truth or Trump?: Administration lawyers face impossible task trying to defend Trump without lying

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April 11, 2025

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Rachel Maddow highlights a problem lawyers who work for the Trump administration are having a hard time reconciling: The honesty and truthful testimony required by courts of law are incompatible with the bad faith arguments behind the Trump policies that are being taken to court. Lawyers who don't tow the Trump line are fired, but lawyers who lie in court risk permanent damage to their careers.

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