The thing about a legal proceeding as big as the impeachment trial is that you want to make sure that you have the person that you are the most comfortable with.
This isn’t like hiring a lawyer to get out of a traffic ticket or anything like that. This is some really bid deal stuff.
This is why the constant changing of President Trump’s legal team, while it might seem like it is pretty scary is actually a good thing. When you are going into battle, you want to make sure that you have people that you know are going to do the job for you the way that you want to have it done. It looks like the President has found his people.
A spokesperson for President Trump on Sunday announced lawyers David Schoen and Bruce Castor will lead his impeachment defense team.
Trump praised Schoen and Castor for having “significant trial experience in high profile cases.”
Saturday night it was reported that five of Trump’s lawyers have left the impeachment defense team with just over a week to go before the Senate trial.
The announcement that lawyers Schoen and Castor will lead Trump’s defense team came after a “mutual decision” to part ways with two South Carolina lawyers, Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, who were expected to represent him. A third lawyer, Joshua Howard, also left the defense team.
Castor is the former Pennsylvania district attorney who declined to prosecute Bill Cosby in 2005 over an encounter with Andrea Constand the year before. Schoen is a civil and criminal defense lawyer with offices in Alabama and New York.
David Schoen also represented Roger Stone and Bruce Castor served as the DA for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Trump’s new impeachment lawyer David Schoen also represented Roger Stone in Stone’s sentencing and appeal.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 31, 2021
“I consider it a privilege to represent the 45th President,” Castor wrote. “The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history. It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.”
The House delivered its article of impeachment to the Senate last week, charging Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The impeachment trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 9.
Call witnesses, INCLUDING ANTIFA members stating the ‘well in advance’ pre-planning the assault on the Capitol Building showing it was a PLANNED EVENT with COMPLICITY FROM HOUSE AND SENATE MEMBERS!
Just prepare Multi-Million dollar lawsuits to file IMMEDIATE AFTER FILING THE ABUSE OF POWER CRIMINAL CHARGES!
There is NO CONSTITUTIONAL POWER to ‘impeach’ a PRIVATE CITIZEN!
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