早在他开始代表唐纳德·特朗普美国前总统、辩护律师约翰·劳罗将他工作的一个方面描述为“微妙的舞蹈”
“我想小心我说的话。他说:“我的大多数客户都被指控犯有白领犯罪，通常不清楚他们在法律上是否有罪。”告诉纽约时报在2007年的一篇文章中，当被问及他是否重视接受无辜的客户时。
“就我的辩护而言，无论他们是不是，对我来说都没有区别。但这是一种微妙的舞蹈，”他接着说。
他认为，对劳罗来说，曾经有一件事很重要，那就是致力于使法律问题两极化，甚至是声名狼藉。
“当有人采取不受欢迎的立场时，对我来说，没有什么比这样做更令人兴奋的了。“有时候越不受欢迎越好，”他告诉《纽约时报》，“因为这真的是你作为一名律师的核心。”
在一次单独的采访中坦帕湾时报2007年，劳罗说他没有被公众对他作品的反应所吓倒:“我从来没有被公众的反应所动摇过。”
作为一名前联邦检察官和纽约州人，劳罗多年来在佛罗里达州的坦帕市建立了自己的声誉，他在那里领导着一家同名的公司，并“代表了所有人，从一名被指控与黑手党合作的华尔街商人到一名不开心的用餐者，他因为不满意意大利面上的海鲜量而错过了账单，”坦帕湾时报曾写道。
(餐厅被判无罪经过陪审团的短暂商议。)
“这是我的生活，”劳罗在2007年告诉坦帕报。“这是我的热情所在。”
今年夏天早些时候，劳罗加入了特朗普的辩护团队，这是特朗普长长的法律代表名单中的最新成员，因为这位前总统一直在努力寻找律师，以应对他面临的越来越多的刑事指控，他否认了所有这些指控。
劳罗上周在法庭上代表特朗普特朗普在美国首都被传讯，指控他阴谋颠覆2020年大选，以便在失败后继续掌权。
特朗普不认罪，并在事后向记者声称他受到了政治迫害。
劳罗在特别顾问杰克·史密斯1月6日的调查中还代表了特朗普的顾问克里斯蒂娜·鲍勃(Christina Bobb)和律师阿丽娜·哈巴(Alina Habba)，他在媒体上抨击了史密斯的案件。
“政府永远无法证明特朗普总统有腐败或犯罪意图。这就是这个案子的内容，“劳罗周日在美国广播公司的“本周”节目中说道
“辩方没有义务证明任何事情。我们考验政府。政府必须排除合理怀疑，证明特朗普总统有犯罪意图，”他说。
这是劳罗同一天在主要的周日公共新闻节目中出现的五次之一，反映了他成为新的焦点。
2007年8月15日，在他的当事人，前NBA裁判蒂姆·多纳吉承认两项重罪指控后，辩护律师约翰·劳罗对媒体说。
克里斯·洪德罗斯/盖蒂图片，文件
史密斯为司法部的工作辩护。
“我的办公室将寻求快速审判，以便我们的证据可以在法庭上得到检验，并由公民陪审团做出判断，”他在上周的一份简短声明中说。史密斯还敦促公众阅读该案件的起诉书“全文”
在华盛顿的联邦选举干涉案中，特朗普面临四项指控:阴谋欺诈美国、阴谋阻挠官方程序、阻挠和试图阻挠官方程序以及阴谋侵犯权利。
“这些阴谋都是建立在被告通过关于选举欺诈的普遍和破坏稳定的谎言制造的广泛不信任基础上的，目标是美国联邦政府的一项基本职能:国家收集、计算和认证总统选举结果的过程，”检察官在起诉书中指控道。
相应的到传记在他的律师事务所网站上，劳罗是乔治城大学法律中心和纽约州东区美国检察官办公室的校友;在那之前和之后，他在私人诊所工作。
他在2007年告诉《纽约时报》，当他还是个孩子的时候，他就被著名戏剧《继承风》中所描述的法律震惊了，这部戏剧讲述了1925年田纳西州一名教师的审判，他挑战了一项反对人类进化教育的法律。
据《纽约时报》报道，作为一名检察官，劳罗参与了五角大楼的腐败案件。
作为一名辩护律师，他随后的工作在白领被告中变化很大:他的公司劳罗的网站&歌手，指出他们接手的案件从“国内外贿赂”到“洗钱和诈骗、公共腐败”等等。
劳罗受到了一些同事和前客户的公开赞扬。
“约翰站在特朗普一边，特朗普先生掌握着大权，因为他会为他不知疲倦地战斗，”一位前客户蒂姆·多纳吉说，告诉华盛顿邮报.
多纳吉是一名名誉扫地的前NBA裁判谁非法赌游戏。2007年，他承认犯有合谋进行电信诈骗和合谋传输赌博信息的罪行。
在2010年一本关于他的法律磨难和丑闻的书中，多纳吉描述了第一次见到劳罗的情景，写道劳罗似乎“自信而镇定”，“他的眼睛闪闪发光，透露出对高调、引起公众关注的犯罪行为的喜爱”，以及“当联邦调查局盯着你的脖子时，他是一个可以看到的人”
“这个人有多年的经验和大量的才华，此外，一点点的认可对业务总是有好处的，更不用说健康的自我了，”多纳吉当时写道。
在2022年网飞的一部纪录片中，回顾了多纳吉的案件，劳罗说他顽强地对待自己的工作——这一观点得到了特朗普的另一名律师克里斯多佛·基斯的回应最近告诉纽约时报劳罗“对关键细节有敏锐的洞察力”，并且“擅长交叉询问”
劳罗在网飞的纪录片中说:“我处理案件的策略总是本能地去抗争。”。“我不喜欢合作。我喜欢打架。我喜欢上法庭。”
Trump Jan. 6 attorney John Lauro is ex-prosecutor not 'swayed by public reaction'
Long before he began representingDonald Trump, former president of the United States, defense attorney John Lauro described one aspect of his job as a "subtle dance."
"I want to be careful in what I say. Most of my clients are accused of white-collar offenses, where oftentimes it's not clear whether or not they are legally guilty," hetold The New York Timesin a 2007 article, when asked if he valued taking on clients who were innocent.
"It makes no difference to me, in terms of my defense, whether they are or not. But it's a subtle dance," he said then.
Once thing that did matter to Lauro, he suggested, was working on polarizing -- even infamous -- legal matters.
"When somebody takes a position that is unpopular, to me, there is nothing more thrilling than doing that. Sometimes the more unpopular the better," he told The New York Times, "because that really goes to the core of who you are as a lawyer."
In a separate interviewwith The Tampa Bay Timesin 2007, Lauro said he wasn't fazed by the response to his work: "I've never been swayed by public reaction."
A former federal prosecutor and New York native, Lauro has for years built his reputation from Tampa, Florida, where he leads an eponymous firm and has "represented everyone from a Wall Street businessman accused of working with the Mafia to an unhappy diner who skipped out on his bill because he was displeased with the amount of seafood on his pasta," The Tampa Bay Times once wrote.
(The dinerwas acquittedafter a brief jury deliberation.)
"This is my life," Lauro told the Tampa paper in 2007. "It's my passion."
Lauro joined Trump's defense team earlier this summer, the latest in Trump's long list of legal representatives, as the former president has struggled to secure attorneys to keep up with the mounting criminal charges he is facing, all of which he denies.
Laurorepresented Trump in court last weekas Trump was arraigned in the nation's capital on charges related to allegations that he plotted to subvert the 2020 election in order to remain in power after being defeated.
Trump pleaded not guilty and claimed to reporters afterward that he was being politically persecuted.
Lauro, who has also represented Trump adviser Christina Bobb and lawyer Alina Habba in connection with special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 investigation, has assailed Smith's case in the press.
"The government will never be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump had corrupt or criminal intent. And that's what this case is about," Laurosaid Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
"The defense has no obligation to prove anything. We put the government to its test. The government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump had criminal intent," he said.
That was one of five same-day appearances by Lauro on the major Sunday public news shows, reflecting the bright new spotlight on him.
Smith has defended the Department of Justice's work.
"My office will seek a speedy trial so that our evidence can be tested in court and judged by a jury of citizens," he said in a brief statement last week. Smith also urged the public to read the indictment in the case "in full."
In the federal election interference case in Washington, Trump faces four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
"Each of these conspiracies—which built on the widespread mistrust the Defendant was creating through pervasive and destabilizing lies about election fraud—targeted a bedrock function of the United States federal government: the nation's process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election," prosecutors alleged in the indictment.
Accordingto the biographyon his law firm's website, Lauro is an alumnus of Georgetown University Law Center and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York; before and after that, he worked in private practice.
He told The New York Times in 2007 that, as a boy, he had been struck by the law as depicted in the famous play "Inherit the Wind," about the 1925 trial of a teacher in Tennessee who was challenging a law against education about human evolution.
As a prosecutor, Lauro worked on a Pentagon corruption case, according to The New York Times.
As a defense attorney, his subsequent work has varied widely among white-collar defendants: The website of his firm, Lauro& Singer,states thatthe cases they have taken on range from "foreign and domestic bribery" to "money laundering and racketeering, public corruption" and more.
Lauro has been publicly praised by some associates and former clients.
"Mr. Trump is in great hands having John on his side, because he's going to fight tirelessly on his behalf," one former client, Tim Donaghy,told The Washington Post.
Donaghy is a disgraced former NBA refereewho illegally bet on games. In 2007, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to transmit wagering information.
In a 2010 book about his legal ordeal and scandal, Donaghy described meeting Lauro for the first time, writing that Lauro seemed "confident and unflappable," with a "sparkle in his eye [that] betrayed an affection for the high-profile, publicity generating criminal caper" and a "reputation as the man to see when the feds were breathing down your neck."
"The man had years of experience and tons of talent, and besides, a little recognition is always good for business, not to mention a healthy ego," Donaghy wrote then.
In a 2022 Netflix documentary looking back at Donaghy's case, Lauro said he approached his work tenaciously -- a view echoed by Christopher Kise, another Trump attorney, whorecently told The New York Timesthat Lauro had "an eye for critical details" and was "masterful at cross-examination."
"My strategy always coming into a case, instinctually, is to fight," Lauro said in the Netflix documentary. "I don't like cooperating. I like fighting. I like going to trial."
