‘We’ll make Rudy Giuliani look good!’: NYC subway ad pops up for Trump lawyers ridiculed over impeachment defense
Donald Trump’s legal team is going off the rails.
A spoof advertisement for Trump’s impeachment lawyers popped up in a New York City subway train car Wednesday morning after the duo drew widespread ridicule for their at times meandering defense arguments at the ex-president’s Senate trial.
“IMPEACHED? Will literally no one else represent you? Call Castor & Schoen,” reads the fake ad, which was spotted on a C train in lower Manhattan by a tipster who shared a photo of it with the Daily News.
Referencing Trump’s personal attorney who was not allowed to join his impeachment defense team, the ad caps off: “We’ll make Rudy Giuliani look good!”
Representatives for Bruce Castor, Jr. and David Schoen did not return requests for comment on the subway shenanigans.
But the ad itself featured a Washington, D.C., area code phone number set up with an automatic voicemail that elaborates on the tongue-in-cheek poster.
“Thank you for calling the law offices of Castor and Schoen,” a voice says in the pre-recorded message. “We specialize in auto accident injury and presidential impeachment. If you are a current or former president who has incited a riot at the Capitol, please press one. If you are a current or former president who has been recorded pressuring a secretary of state to change election results, please press two.”
Callers are directed to leave a message after pressing either prompt. It was not immediately clear who’s responsible for the ad.
Castor faced the brunt of the mockery directed at the Trump legal team after he gave a nearly hour-long defense argument at Tuesday’s trial session that left many listeners bewildered.
Over the course of his winding speech, Castor dared the Department of Justice to arrest Trump and admitted that he had made last-minute changes to his remarks.
“I was going to say, originally, it will release the whirlwind, which is a biblical reference, but I subsequently learned before I got here that that particular phrase has been taken, so I changed it,” Castor said after telling senators that the “floodgates will open” if they vote to convict Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Republican senators who serve as the trial’s jurors ripped Castor’s performance as subpar.
“If I’m an impartial juror and one side is doing a great job and the other job is doing a terrible job on the issue at hand? As an impartial juror, I’m going to vote for the side that did the good job,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told reporters.
According to reports, Trump was furious with Castor after the trial session.
But Castor refuted that characterization when reporters asked if Trump had expressed displeasure to him.
“Far from it,” he said while walking into the Senate chamber for Wednesday’s trial session.
