Old President Trump
Donald TrumpBiden: “I’m sick of talking about Trump” Hacker claims to have stolen files from a Trump-linked law firm: WSJ Texas governor faces criticism over handling winter storm rains he reportedly dismissed one of his defense attorneys in the middle of his second dismissal trial because of the lawyer’s performance on the Senate floor last week.
The New York Times reports that one of Trump’s advisers, Justin Clark, told Bruce Castor last Wednesday that the former president did not want the lawyer to reappear on television during the trial.
Then Castor stood up as he shouted and argued that Trump was wrong to degrade him. According to the Times, the argument became so heated that Castor eventually left the conference room, although he later apologized to Clark.
The Times noted that half a dozen members of Trump’s legal team relayed their accounts of the incident during a meeting in a conference room at the former president’s hotel in Washington, DC
The Hill has contacted Trump’s office to comment.
Castor joined Trump’s defense team about a week before the trial began after he was reportedly recommended by his cousin Stephen Castor, one of Trump’s aides. The hasty hiring of the Pennsylvania attorney came after reports were released that Butch Bowers, a South Carolina attorney who was to lead Trump’s defense team, was leaving along with four other attorneys due to disagreements. with Trump on how to approach the trial.
Commentators and politicians on both sides of the aisle criticized Castor’s defense for a few hours on the former president last week.
“Anyone who listened to President Trump’s legal team saw that he wasn’t focused, tried to avoid the problem, and talked about everything but the issue at hand,” the senator said. Bill Cassidy
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Castor fired at the critics and told reporters, “It only matters one person’s opinion, and that’s what I’m going for.”
“You have to remember that we literally had a week and a day to prepare the defense and that we were people we had never met,” David Schoen, another member of Trump’s legal team, told the Times in a statement.
Schoen told the newspaper that he regretted not pushing back Castor’s agenda and failing to inform Trump of Castor’s prominent role in the process.
“I admired his courage to jump straight in,” Schoen told the Times. “Unfortunately, the media made it feel quite solid and several people thought that maybe the agenda should be reconsidered.”