Trump replaces lawyer on team hours before
surrender at Georgia jail – reports
Criminal defense lawyer Steve Sadow is reportedly
going to replace Trump’s existing lawyer, Drew Findling
Gloria
Oladipo and Guardian staff
Thu 24 Aug
2023 09.22 EDT
While
former president Donald Trump was preparing to surrender at an Atlanta jail on
Thursday, he was apparently also reconsidering his legal defense team.
Just hours
before Trump is supposed to turn himself in, reports broke that he had shaken
up his team. Criminal defense lawyer Steve Sadow is reportedly going to replace
Trump’s existing lawyer, Drew Findling, according to the New York Times.
Notably,
Findling, alongside Jennifer Little and Marissa Goldberg, was key in
negotiating Trump’s $200,000 bond.
Little will
reportedly stay on the team.
In a
statement to ABC News, Sadow said: “I have been retained to represent President
Trump in the Fulton county, Georgia case. The president should never have been
indicted. He is innocent of all the charges brought against him. We look
forward to the case being dismissed or, if necessary, an unbiased, open minded
jury finding the president not guilty. Prosecutions intended to advance or
serve the ambitions and careers of political opponents of the president have no
place in our justice system.”
The
Guardian has contacted Sadow for further comment.
The latest
shake-up with Trump’s legal team comes as the former president is expected to
surrender at a Fulton county jail Thursday night, announcing his plans in a
post to Truth social.
“Can you
believe it? I’ll be going to Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday to be ARRESTED by a
Radical Left District Attorney, Fani Willis, who is overseeing one of the
greatest Murder and Violent Crime DISASTERS in American History,” Trump posted
on his social media platform on Monday, referring to the Fulton county district
attorney, Fani Willis.
Trump will
be booked on 13 felony charges in connection with his attempts to overturn the
results of the 2020 election.
Last week,
Trump along with 18 co-defendants was charged with 41 indictments that accuse
them of attempting to overturn the election results through election fraud and
other criminal means.
As part of
Thursday’s booking, Trump will be fingerprinted, weighed and have his mugshot
recorded, which are all standard processing protocol.
The former
president has attempted to get an exemption from having his photograph taken,
but county jail officials have said Trump will be treated no differently than
other criminal defendants.
Trump is
expected to be immediately released after the booking, but must follow strict
rules related to witness intimidation, according to court documents.
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