Donald
Trump has hired a new legal defense team for his impeachment trial in the
Senate next week, a day after his previous team resigned en masse. The new team
will have very little time to prepare for the trial, in which Trump is accused
of inciting a deadly insurrection at the Capitol, with Tuesday marking the
deadline to submit a preliminary memo outlining the former president’s defense.
According to CNN, all five of Trump’s previous team resigned after disagreeing
with him over strategy.
Trial
lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L Castor will now lead Trump’s team. Schoen
previously represented Roger Stone, who was convicted of obstructing a
congressional investigation into Trump’s collusion with Russia, and also met
convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while the financier was preparing for a
sexual exploitation trial. Castor is a former acting attorney general of
Pennsylvania, who opposed reforms to support victims of sexual abuse and
declined to prosecute Bill Cosby a decade before he was convicted.
But does it
matter? While some have been referring to the last-minute change of team as a
crisis for Trump, others have suggested it isn’t important who defends him –
Republicans are unlikely to impeach Trump, regardless of the substance of his case.
Most
[Republicans] already have their answer. Trump could offer no defense or he can
go on the floor to read lines from the Joker movie – they would still vote to
acquit,” tweeted Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer.
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