Though they have never met, two Montgomery County natives, Madeleine Dean and Bruce L. Castor Jr., face off when they sit on opposite sides of Donald Trump’s second Senate impeachment this week
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Ahead of his second impeachment trial next week, former President Donald Trump has tapped Bruce Castor, an attorney with a long, fractious history in Pennsylvania politics, to co-lead his defense team against charges of incitement of insurrection.
Throughout his career, Castor has shown a knack for finding the limelight, and a tendency to fill in for disgraced public officials.
Castor, a Republican, is a former Montgomery County district attorney and county commissioner who once pledged not to prosecute Bill Cosby with sexual assault, and had a brief but colorful stint as state attorney general after AG Kathleen Kane was convicted of multiple felonies.
Trump picks former Philly-area DA Bruce Castor to defend him at Senate impeachment trial
PHILADELPHIA Former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. will lead former President Donald Trump’s defense team as his second Senate impeachment trial gets underway next week.
Trump made the announcement saying Castor will work alongside a new co-lead counsel, Alabama criminal defense lawyer David Schoen in a statement issued late Sunday night in which he lauded the new team for the significant “national profiles and significant trial experience” they will bring to his defense.
It came a day after it was disclosed that the former president had parted ways with his team of previous lawyers, who had been preparing for the proceedings for weeks.
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