Former President Donald Trump, as well as his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., have hired attorney Jesse Binnall to represent each of them in a lawsuit filed by Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
Binnall, a Virginia-based Republican attorney, previously represented Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn alongside attorney Sidney Powell after prosecutors accused him of lying to the FBI about his communications with Russia’s ambassador to the United States.
More recently, Binnall filed a lawsuit in Nevada on behalf of the Trump campaign seeking to nullify President Joe Biden’s election victory there, and has also rejected Defending the Republic, a legal group founded in part by Powell, in a defamation lawsuit filed by Domain Voting Systems.
Trump Jr. he is now the second member of the Trump family to be represented by Binnall after the lawyer signed on to represent former President Trump in a similar lawsuit filed by Mississippi Democratic Congresswoman Bennie Thompson.
Both Thompson and Swalwell’s allegations allege that Trump and his associates violated the Ku Klux Klan law of 1871 and that Trump’s rhetoric was part of a deliberate attempt to incite riot police to disrupt Congressional certification. of President Biden’s victory on 6 January.
Binnall also represented Trump in a lawsuit filed in November against the then president, his campaign, and the Republican National Committee. The lawsuit alleged that Trump “intended to overturn the election result by disenfranchising voters, particularly black voters,” in part by “intimidating election officials and polling booths while counting the votes.”