Trump announces his new impeachment trial legal defense team – Who’s on it?
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a new legal defense team after he parted ways with five of his impeachment lawyers just over a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, Fox News has confirmed.
South Carolina lawyers Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier and former federal prosecutors Greg Harris, Johnny Gasser and Josh Howard had left the defense team by Saturday, a source said, calling it a mutual decision.
The source said the lawyers left over a difference of opinion on the direction of the defense s argument.
President Trump Names New Impeachment Legal Defense Team
1 Feb 2021
Former President Donald Trump named a new legal team Sunday to present his defense at the Senate impeachment trial currently under way, after several members of the team were reported to have left the team on Saturday.
#NEW: 45th President Donald J. Trump announced that trial lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr., will head his impeachment defense legal team. pic.twitter.com/vvf8nq3NY3
The
Epoch Timesreported:
The two lawyers who will represent the former president in the upcoming Senate trial are David Schoen, an attorney from Alabama, and Bruce Castor Jr., a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania.
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