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6. One reason trump is mad at Perkins Coie-this firm and Mark Elias collected and reviewed 7000 trump's lawsuits
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 06:51 PM
Mar 2025

I have been volunteering on voter protection efforts since 2004 where I went to Florida as part of the Kerry Edwards Voter Protection team. In 2016 I was part of the Clinton Victory Counsel team that was led by Marc Elias and Perkins Coie. I still remember having to sign a confidentiality agreement as part of my efforts.

One of the efforts that I worked on was the review of 7,000 trump lawsuits. Perkins Coie put all of the pleadings in these lawsuits into a database where volunteer attorneys reviewed the pleadings and did summaries for use in opposition research. I remember reviewing pleadings for over 100 lawsuits and doing summaries of these lawsuits.

I was pleased to see these summaries are in the DNC database.



New from me: The DNC research team has mined thousands of lawsuits from 50 states as part of a massive new research trove on President Trump that will be weaponized through pols and reporters in key states.


https://www.axios.com/2019/09/08/democratic-national-committee-trump-2020-opposition-research
Inside Democrats' 2020 Trump war room

The DNC research team has mined thousands of lawsuits from nearly 50 states as part of a massive new trove on President Trump that will be weaponized through pols and reporters in key battlegrounds.

Why it matters: This new plan shows what Democrats think Trump's biggest vulnerabilities will be. And unlike in 2016, Trump now has a policy record.

Details: The research includes roughly 7,000 lawsuits, as well an extensive document detailing every time then-candidate Trump told supporters at his 2016 campaign rallies that Mexico would pay for the wall.

Marc Elias and Perkins Coie spent a great deal of time and money pulling all of the pleadings in all of these lawsuits. Trump is still mad at Elias and Perkins Coie for these efforts. trump evidently blames Elias and Perkins Coie for losing the 2020 election and is taking revenge now.

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