The Importance of Watching a Defense Attorney Talk

Tim Parletori has been eagerly doing color commentary on the case of his ex-client Donald Trump, which is definitely not something that he should be doing as an attorney. You have to be careful of the media's tendency to try to portray very routine mundane things as exciting because they have to do that, right? So when Trump made his first appearance in federal court, every headline was blaring, Trump leads not guilty. That's what you do at your first appearance. If someone is trying to whip it up into a big, huge headline thing then they probably don't have a lot of substance there.