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Bruce Castor, former district attorney for Montgomery County. (Matt Rourke/AP, file)
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.
The 2020 election established Montgomery County as a powerful Democratic stronghold in Pennsylvania
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