As you may have heard, President Trump’s entire legal team for the impeachment defense resigned earlier today.
Some say resigned, some say it was mutual…..to me it sounds like Trump fired them.
And good riddance I say!
Mark is right:
BREAKING: Former President Trump announces new impeachment legal team!
Who else is excited to hear this? ✋🏾
— Mark Lutchman 🇺🇸 (@marklutchman) January 31, 2021
Why do I say that?
Because they were just more Deep State foot soldiers….completely untrustworthy!
https://twitter.com/WayneDupreeShow/status/1355923830284365825
Fox News has the details on the new team:
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.
Another anonymous source told the Associated Press Bowers and Barbier left because Trump wanted them to make election fraud allegations during the trial.
Trump will now be represented by trial lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr.
The changes come with little time before the former president faces charges that he incited the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, leaving the exact members of his defense team and their approach up in the air at a crucial moment.
Trump was all but certain to be acquitted, however, because 45 out of 50 Republicans in the Senate voted earlier this month to dismiss the trial on a point of order brought forward by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
The remaining five Republicans voted with Democrats to end debate on Paul’s motion that argued Trump’s impeachment trial is unconstitutional because he’s no longer in office.
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