The other week we posted an announcement about Trump getting new attorneys for his impeachment. Well apparently that fell through this weekend and Trump has two new lawyers for his phony impeachment, which is set to begin next week:
#NEW: 45th President Donald J. Trump announced that trial lawyers David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr., will head his impeachment defense legal team. pic.twitter.com/vvf8nq3NY3
— Jenn Pellegrino OAN 🇺🇸 (@JennPellegrino) January 31, 2021
According to the Daily Mail, discussing election fraud was what led to his prior attorneys bailing on him. David Shoen, the new attorney, says he won’t be discussing any theory of election fraud:
One of President Donald Trump’s new impeachment lawyers says he won’t be using the Senate trial to push the president’s baseless claims of election fraud – the same issue that prompted the departure of his prior legal team.
David Schoen, who Trump announced Sunday would represent him just days before a key impeachment deadline, is rejecting that line of defense.
‘I am not a person who will put forward a theory of election fraud,’ Schoen told the Washington Post. ‘That’s not what this impeachment trial is about,’ said Schoen, who previously represented longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone, who got a pardon from President Trump after being convicted of lying to Congress and jury tampering.
His statement comes after Trump has pushed his lawyers to revisit his claims of election fraud as part of his defense for ‘incitement of insurrection’ – essentially arguing that he was being truthful, rather than egging on a mob with lies. The trial is set to take place next week, just weeks after a MAGA mob stormed the Capitol while lawmakers were meeting to count the electoral votes that made Joe Biden president.
Trump also will be represented by Bruce Castor, who was district attorney for Montgomery County in Pennsylvania when Bill Cosby was accused of sexual assault by Andrea Constand.
The Post reported Saturday that South Carolina attorney Butch Bowers and four other lawyers had parted ways with Trump just days before a Tuesday deadline for a response to the impeachment charge. The trial is to begin in earnest on Feb. 9th, due in part to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s push for Trump to get more time for his team to prepare.
We already know that 45 Republicans in the Senate believe this impeachment trial to be a joke, so I’m pretty sure this won’t be a conviction. So really it boils down to the public spectacle this trial will be and how it could benefit or damage Trump in the end. It’ll be interesting to see what they come up with…