The former US president Donald Trump announced on Sunday the hiring of two new lawyers to lead his defense during his historic second political trial.
Trump’s announcement comes a day after that American media reported that several of his lawyers had left his legal team, Almost a week before the start of the trial in the Senate.
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In a statement, the Republican millionaire said “highly respected litigation attorneys” David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr. would head their legal team.
Castor has focused on criminal law throughout his career, while Schoen specializes in “civil rights litigation in Alabama, and federal criminal defense in New York, including white-collar cases and other complex cases.” .
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Trump, who left office on January 20, was accused by the House of Representatives of inciting the mob of his supporters who stormed the Congress building in an attempt to block the officialization of his electoral defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
The process is doubly historic, since it is the second time Trump will be subjected to a political trial, After being acquitted by another in February 2020, and is the first time an American president has been tried after leaving the White House.
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Schoen was already working with the defense and both he and Castor “agree that this impeachment is unconstitutional.”, The statement said.
CNN on Saturday cited sources on condition of anonymity who said five lawyers, including two who allegedly led the Republican millionaire’s legal team, had abandoned him for disagreements with his legal strategy.
Trump wanted lawyers to continue his unfounded claims of massive election fraud instead of refuting the legality of condemning a president after he left power, CNN said, adding that the former president “was not receptive” to discussing it.
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The trial, in which Trump faces an indictment for “inciting insurrection,” begins Feb. 9.
But after only five Republicans joined all 50 Democrats this week to give the green light to opinion, it became quite clear that the task of garnering 17 Republican votes to reach the two-thirds needed for a conviction is almost impossible.
AFP