Trump's New Lawyers Not Expected to Focus on False Election Claims in His Defense

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The new legal team that former President Donald Trump has brought in for his impeachment trial next week is unlikely to focus his defense on his baseless claims of widespread election fraud and instead question whether the trial is constitutional since he is no longer president, people close to the team said on Monday.

Several Trump advisers have told the former president that using his election claims as a defense for his role in the mob attack on the Capitol last month is unwise, according to a person close to the new lawyers, David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor Jr. The person said the former president’s advisers did not expect that it would be part of the arguments they make before the Senate.

In an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday, Schoen confirmed that he would not make that argument. “I’m not in this case for that,” he said.

Schoen, an Atlanta-based criminal defense lawyer, and Castor, a former district attorney in Pennsylvania, replaced Butch Bowers and four other lawyers working with him after they parted ways with the former president.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-lawyers-not-expected-focus-130323607.html

[Skittles]

1. instead it will focus on false claims about "constiutionality" or some such bullshit

yes indee

[captain queeg]

2. Trump must be getting scared, he's realized his phony claims of voter fraud won't fly

For him to agree to drop that bogus claim must have been pretty hard for his team to cram down his throat and no doubt realized he wasn’t going to have a legal team at all if he didn’t give it up. The dumpster fire is now a private citizen and can’t BS his way thru things any more I don’t doubt the rethugs will let him off the hook but I hope various state agencies will be there to bring charges. And some high dollar civil suits as well.