No, Trump’s Spokesperson Is Not An Above The Law Columnist Despite What You Might’ve Seen On Theo Von’s Podcast

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My first memory of comedian and podcaster Theo Von came from his stint on MTV’s Road Rules, which folks of a certain age will remember as “The Real World but in a Winnebago.” For everyone else, it’s the show that used to produce contestants for The Challenge before they started populating that show with failed Love Island participants. In one episode where Theo doggedly grilled castmates over whether or not they hooked up, the gone-but-not-forgotten genius website Television Without Pity titled their summary “The Redneck Inquisition.” Von has known how to lean on his Louisiana roots to get deceptively good “I’m just a simple country lawyer” results for years.

In the most recent episode of his popular This Past Weekend podcast, Von and fellow comedian Bobby Lee were discussing Bobby lookalikes — “Kim Jung Un and I come from the same body type” — when Lee raised Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung and asked the producer to look up “I think he’s an attorney… for Trump.”

Which the producer confirmed, EXCEPT he found this by searching for Steven CHUNG and not CHEUNG, pulling up the feed of Above the Law resident tax law columnist Chung.

Cheung, by the way, is not an attorney.

Obviously, Above the Law does not have a Trump campaign spokesperson as a columnist… anymore.

Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter or Bluesky if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.