None of this is surprising. Markus is a legitimately great trial lawyer but he's also a HUGE mover and shaker in south Florida GOP circles. I don't know if he's ever represented Trump but there's a 100% chance they know each other. And Markus and Blanche go way back. In fact, Blanche was the first person Markus interviewed on his podcast last year --
Todd Blanche, counsel to former President Donald Trump, joins David Oscar Markus to discuss the New York trial of People v. Trump.
www.forthedefensepodcast.com
I'm not blaming Markus for any of this unless he's doing something obviously unethical like facilitating known lies by his client. This is a great opportunity for Maxwell and they'd be crazy not to seize it. But that doesn't change the fact it's corrupt as hell from Trump and DOJ's perspective, and people like calla and Ram would have long since had coronaries if a Dem administration had ever even whispered about doing it.