Report: Doug Emhoff Blasts His Law Firm for Mak­ing Deal with Pres­i­dent Trump

For­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Harris’s (D) hus­band, Doug Emhoff, report­ed­ly crit­i­cized his own law firm Thurs­day for its recent deal­ings with Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump.

A CNN report on Sat­ur­day cit­ed sources who said Emhoff was speak­ing dur­ing a char­i­ty gala din­ner in Los Ange­les, Cal­i­for­nia.

The arti­cle said, “Emhoff con­demned the deci­sion by his law firm to pre­emp­tive­ly come to an arrange­ment with the Trump admin­is­tra­tion to avoid an exec­u­tive order tar­get­ing the firm,” not­ing Emhoff is a part­ner at Willkie Farr & Gal­lagher LLP.

“Emhoff told the crowd at the Annu­al Din­ner Gala for the legal aid group Bet Tzedek he had told the firm he want­ed to fight the threat of an exec­u­tive order he found uncon­sti­tu­tion­al but had been over­ruled, the sources said,” Accord­ing to CNN.

Trump has been fight­ing back against “Big Law,” or huge law firms that “indi­rect­ly sub­si­dized the Democ­rats’ ‘law­fare’ cam­paign against him, and that have encour­aged lawyers to pro­vide pro bono (free) work for the left,” Bre­it­bart News report­ed March 28.

The out­let con­tin­ued

“Big Law” sits at the apex of a polit­i­cal pyra­mid that has served, until now, to insti­tu­tion­al­ize the pow­er of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty in Amer­i­can soci­ety.

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Crit­ics of the pres­i­dent claim that he is abus­ing his pow­er to tar­get his polit­i­cal oppo­nents. The oppo­site is true: he is restor­ing bal­ance and jus­tice, allow­ing con­ser­v­a­tive attor­neys and clients — as well as con­ser­v­a­tive law stu­dents — the same rights and oppor­tu­ni­ties that lib­er­als have enjoyed.

In Trump’s post regard­ing the agree­ment with Willkie Farr & Gal­lagher LLP, the pres­i­dent detailed some of the actions to be tak­en by the firm.

“Willkie will pro­vide a total of at least $100 Mil­lion Dol­lars in pro bono Legal Ser­vices, dur­ing the Trump Admin­is­tra­tion, and beyond, to caus­es that Pres­i­dent Trump and Willkie both sup­port, in rela­tion to the fol­low­ing areas: Assist­ing Vet­er­ans and oth­er Pub­lic Ser­vants includ­ing, among oth­ers, mem­bers of the Mil­i­tary, Gold Star fam­i­lies, Law Enforce­ment, and First Respon­ders; Ensur­ing fair­ness in our Jus­tice Sys­tem; and Com­bat­ting Anti­semitism,” his Truth Social post read.

“Willkie’s pro bono Com­mit­tee will ensure that new pro bono mat­ters are con­sis­tent with these objec­tives, and that pro bono activ­i­ties rep­re­sent the full polit­i­cal spec­trum, includ­ing Con­ser­v­a­tive ideals,” it con­tin­ued.

Trump also said the firm will not engage in ille­gal diver­si­ty, equi­ty, and inclu­sion (DEI) dis­crim­i­na­tion and pref­er­ences.