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"Jones Day Made Trump" - Live at Harvard Law with David Enrich

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Jones Day and the Obamacare Cases Are a Case in Point

Jones Day was founded in the late 1800s in Cleveland. By 2000, it was one of the biggest law firms in the country. In 2014, they hired a team of hot shot Republican lawyers from patent bogs to advise any would be Republican presidential nominee who would like their services. Donald Trump happened to have a connection going back generations with Don McGahn's family. And so yeah, on basically, and I wouldn't say they gambled the Trump would win but they wanted a Republican winner.

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