James Carville said law firms deciding to collaborate with President Donald Trump amid his executive orders punishing their previous legal work against him were no different than Nazi “collaborators” working with Hitler during World War II.
In various executive orders, Trump threatened to revoke federal contracts and employees’ security clearances for law firms that helped in the Mueller investigation.
Several of the law firms, so far including Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, have all reached agreements with the Trump administration in exchange for lifting the sanctions against them, much to the dismay of Carville.
“Maybe you need to go in history and see what happened in August of 1944 after Paris was liberated,” Carville said on Politicon. “They didn’t take very kindly to the collaborators. No, it was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris.”
“And I’m saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think that these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States,” Carville continued.
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“These people are a disgrace to the law firms they represent, to the companies that they represent and are supposed to be in self-interest, and they’re a disgrace to the United States and etch their names in the tablet of history for being some The greatest traitors, appeasers that we’ve seen in the history of our great country,” Carville said.
Carville’s remarks come just days after Milbank, a lawfirm targeted for its hiring of Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general under President Obama, agreed to provide $100 million in pro-bono work to the Trump administration and abolish its DEI mandates.