Trump picks Bill McGinley to serve as his White House counsel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Bill is a smart and tenacious lawyer who will help me advance our America First agenda while fighting for election integrity and against the weaponization of law enforcement," Trump said in a statement.
41% : Personal legal trouble for Trump may not be able to play out again while he is in office, given the immunity protections now around the presidency, from both the court system and the acquiescence of his own Justice Department.
38% : That case is now paused with Trump coming into the presidency.
37% : McGinley also has experience counseling political figures who needed lawyers for ethics and grand jury investigations -- the types of quagmires that Trump has repeatedly faced.
27% : But those interactions ended up fueling an obstruction of justice inquiry into Trump that resulted in no criminal charges, because of Trump's role in the presidency.
27% : Cipollone also told Trump he would resign, along with several leaders in the Justice Department, if the president didn't back off a plan he had to replace the attorney general and fan unfounded election fraud theories after the 2020 vote.
25% : Cipollone and Philbin were later cut out of the case against Trump by the Justice Department, following a Supreme Court ruling this summer giving some immunity in criminal proceedings around the presidency.
20% : In the January 6, 2021, federal criminal case against the president-elect, Trump's latter White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy Patrick Philbin testified to a grand jury about urging Trump to direct rioters at the Capitol that day to leave the building, according to court filings.

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