Former President Donald Trump hired a lawyer—best known for representing rappers—to represent him in the 2020 election interference criminal inquiry in Georgia.
Last week Trump hired Drew Findling, an Atlanta-based lawyer who is known online as #BillionDollarLawyer and for representing a star-studded list of clients, including artists Cardi B, Migos, Waka Flocka Flame, and Gucci Mane.
The investigation is looking into potential 2020 election interference. Although Trump has not been named as a target of the Georgia probe, the Fulton County prosecutors have issued subpoenas to members of the former president’s inner circle—Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and former Trump lawyers John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani are among them. Additionally, the slate of 16 alternate electors in Georgia could face charges.
On top of his background in criminal defense work, Findling’s reputation runs deep in the rap community. “He’s the biggest lawyer in the game, man,” said Offset, a member of the group Migos and Cardi B’s husband. As Findling told the New York Times, he remembered rapper 2 Chainz pointing at him and telling his wife: “See that guy right there? Honey, we don’t ever want to be in his office.”
In another strange twist to this hiring, Findling has been an outspoken critic of Trump. In 2017, after Trump dismissed Preet Bharara from his position as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Findling took to Twitter: “The POTUS firing SDNY US Attorney Preet Bharara is a sign of FEAR that he would aggressively investigate the stench hovering over this POTUS.”
In 2018, after the former president criticized Lebron James, Findling tweeted: “The racist architect of fraudulent Trump University criticizing Lebron, the founder of a free school for children…. POTUS pathetic once again!”
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Scathing criticism aside, now Findling will represent Trump, and he explained his choice to do so in a recent interview with the New York Times: “I do not believe that we choose our client or clients based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, political belief or the substantive issues involved in the crime…We have our personal lives and we have our personal politics, and I don’t apologize for my personal politics.”
“I may differ politically from many of my clients, but that doesn’t change my commitment to defend against wrongful investigations,” Findling’s law firm said in a statement on Thursday. “In this case, the focus on President Trump in Fulton County, Georgia is clearly an erroneous and politically driven persecution and along with my office and co-counsel, I am fully committed to defend against this injustice.”
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