Reuters. – A lawyer from Donald Trump, former president of the United States, said Wednesday that it would be “idiot” Y “crazy“Dispute the legitimacy of the elections 2020 during impeachment in the Senate, adding that the former president has not pressured him to present those arguments.
“Injecting that into a case that we are already going to win would be idiotic,” he said. Bruce L. Castor Jr., a recent addition to the Trump legal team, in an interview with Reuters.
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“No one has pressured me to do that defendingAdded Castor, who claimed that Trump was pleased with a brief filed in conjunction with attorney David Schoen on Tuesday.
The two defenders prepare for the impeachment from Trump before the United States Senate as of February 9. The chamber will consider an article approved by the House of Representatives accusing the former president of inciting the deadly assault on the Capitol on January 6.
Responding to the charge Tuesday, the Republican’s lawyers argued that the Senate lacked the authority to impeach a president who left office. Castor said to Reuters that that would be the main defense argument.
In the upper house, 45 Republicans backed a failed effort on January 26 to stop the Donald Trump impeachment for that very reason, in a show of party unity that some cited as a clear sign that he will not be condemned.
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Democratic lawmakers said in a report Tuesday that Trump targeted a mob “like a loaded cannon” in Congress and that he should be barred from holding public office in the future.
The former president named Castor and Schoen as his lead attorneys Sunday after abruptly parting ways with a team of five attorneys that was to represent him.
A source familiar with the matter said Trump disagreed with his former lead attorney, Butch Bowers, on the strategy before trial. The president still maintains that he was the victim of massive electoral fraud in the November 3 elections, won by the President Joe Biden.
Bruce L. Castor Jr. He said he does not plan to call defense witnesses unless House Democrats, who are prosecuting the trial, do so. He would not say who Trump would call in that scenario.
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