When chaos broke out on the floor on Monday, the opening day of the Republican Convention in Cleveland, as forces opposed to Donald Trump objected to rules that cleared the billionaire’s path to winning his party’s nomination, an Austin attorney was part of a legal team who helped shut down that rebellion in a technical way.
As Trump lieutenants scrambled on the convention floor to assess a loud call by convention delegates who wanted a roll call vote—a move which would have given anti-Trump forces a platform to embarrass the presumptive nominee with a move to unbound delegates to vote for other candidates—Trey Trainor sat in a backstage conference room scrambling to assess the petitions submitted by renegade delegations.