Trump’s Own Beltway Establishment Guy: The Curious Journey of Jones Day’s Don McGahn
Donald Trump’s campaign lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, the former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and a partner in Jones Day, will be instrumental in helping the candidate navigate the labyrinthine delegate and convention rules as the Republican presidential nomination fight enters the home stretch, according to a profile published by The Washington Post.
“For a while, McGahn’s colleagues at Jones Day either didn’t know the firm was representing Trump or didn’t mind. That changed late last month when McGahn organized a meeting between the candidate and more than a dozen lawmakers at the firm’s Washington office,” the report says.
A recent report by David Lat, a former federal prosecutor who runs the blog Above the Law and closely monitors the chatter within the nation’s white-shoe legal shops, quoted a number of his Jones Day sources, anonymously, saying that they were deeply embarrassed by the Trump affiliation.
