So Trump has a new mouthpiece, a man hailed as “a veteran white collar defense attorney.” Now Emmet Flood can’t have agreed to work for Trump because he needs money. I cannot even imagine the vast income of someone in his line of work, who defends the sort of people he represents. Maybe he accepted the job because of the staggering challenge of defending Trump, a client far more irresponsible and garrulous than any Flood usually represents. Will Flood succeed where all others have failed? Will he stop Trump’s mouthing off? Will he take away his Twitter account? Will he cajole Trump into concentrating on something?

Mr. Flood will have developed a strong stomach from dealing with wholly unprincipled and sleazy people in his legal practice, but he is sure to be retching for the first few days of his service in the Trump Gang. He will be nauseated, but he will be lucky if that is all the sickness he suffers. Mendacity, contempt for law, utter selfishness, and disdain for all that is decent are diseases that are cultivated in the Trump world, and Mr. Flood will be lucky if he is not infected.