Basically, the defense council has no defense.
It is beneficial to the Trump Campaign to create the idea of having to deal with a corrupt court by emphasizing the need for transparency (even to change the definition of lawyer-client privilege) and definition of words.
The Trump defense lawyers are attempting to do the impossible. An effective lawyer would recognize the extreme brevity of the evidence and the guilt of the client and move to minimize any forthcoming sentence.
The court hearings are another example of Trump’s desire to manipulate the conversation and has nothing to do with good practice. The Trump lawyers are probably getting paid plenty to please the demand of their client. All I can think is that any lawyer employed should realize others have fallen in efforts to please Trump’s impossible demands, ie; Sidney Powell.