The Kasowitz law firm blasted out a news release in 2010: “Kasowitz Clients Donald<br />and Ivanka Trump Defeat Financier Carl Icahn in Casino Takeover Fight.”<br />Today, of course, in the strange bedfellows whirl of Wall Street<br />and Washington, Mr. Icahn is one of Mr. Trump’s biggest supporters and is now acting as a special adviser on regulatory reform.<br />(In grand Trumpian style, Mr. Kasowitz described the accusations as “McCarthyism.”)<br />In his representation of Mr. Trump, Mr. Kasowitz has had a number of tussles with journalists — including ones from this newspaper.<br />But whatever Mr. Kasowitz doesn’t know about Washington, he does know about Mr. Trump —<br />and he does know about the news media and the 24-hour news cycle.<br />Mr. Kasowitz is very different from the lawyer whose name gets bandied about Washington as the model counselor for the challenges Mr. Trump<br />may face: Theodore B. Olson, an old Washington wise man who represented George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore, which went to the Supreme Court.
