You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
-Short Attention Span Theater-
Trump lawyers quit classified documents case
2023-06-10
[Shafaq News] Two lawyers who represented Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
in the months before the former president was indicted on federal charges over his handling of classified documents quit working for him Friday morning.

The attorneys, Jim Trusty
...the former federal prosecutor is also a Fox News legal analyst, so one can see how he became too busy for this case...
and John Rowley, did not explain in detail why they had resigned, other than to say in a joint statement that "this is a logical moment" to do so given his indictment Thursday in U.S. District Court in Miami.

Trusty and Rowley also said they will no longer represent Trump in a pending federal criminal probe into his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election to President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
Trusty had made multiple appearances on television news shows Thursday evening and Friday morning to discuss the indictment of Trump in his capacity as his lawyer.

Trump first announced the two lawyers were leaving his cases in a post on his Truth Social platform. He said he would now be represented by Todd Blanche, a New York lawyer who is representing him in another criminal case in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Trump is charged there in a state grand jury indictment with falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 presidential election.

He has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
in that case.

"We will be announcing additional lawyers in the coming days," wrote Trump, who is due to appear Tuesday in Miami court on the indictment charging him with several crimes.

Blanche did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

Trump is charged over his retention of hundreds of classified government documents at his residence at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, after he left the White House, as well as with obstruction for his failure to return those records in the face of demands from U.S. officials.

In a joint statement, Trusty and Rowley wrote: "This morning we tendered our resignations as counsel to President Trump, and we will no longer represent him on either the indicted case or the January 6 investigation."

"It has been an honor to have spent the last year defending him, and we know he will be vindicated in his battle against the Biden Administration’s partisan weaponization of the American justice system," the attorneys said.

"Now that the case has been filed in Miami, this is a logical moment for us to step aside and let others carry the cases through to completion," they wrote. "We have no plans to hold media appearances that address our withdrawals or any other confidential communications we’ve had with the President or his legal team.
Related:
Jim Trusty: 2022-07-22 Hunter Biden Probe Will End With ‘Very Sympathetic Plea Agreement,' Former Federal Prosecutor Predicts
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  That’s good news, NoMoreBS. I posted this article — from an Iraqi news site that we usually use just for Iraqi news — in the hope that someone here would be able to put it in perspective. And as so often happens when I make a wish here, you, Skidmark, and Glenmore did so. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-06-10 22:52  

#5  "Strategic Lawfare at Work, They Didn’t Resign – Jack Smith Takes Down Two Trump Lawyers Using Compelled Testimony, Creating Witnesses Within Indictment

"The granular news. You might have heard that two of Trump’s lawyers, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, quit today. The media wants to use their exit as a point to indicate Trump is in legal jeopardy; however, that’s not the case.

As soon as Trusty and Rowley saw their forced testimony was used in the indictment, they had no option except to exit the case. Despite the lawyers providing no damaging information against Trump, the DOJ used language in the indictment to turn Trump’s lawyers into material witnesses. Weissmann’s Lawfare tactic create a conflict, forcing the two Trump lawyers to depart."

ttps://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/06/09/strategic-lawfare-at-work-they-didnt-resign-jack-smith-takes-down-two-trump-lawyers-using-compelled-testimony-creating-witnesses-within-indictment/
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-06-10 12:22  

#4  Already being set up with agents, ghost writers and cushy book deals?
Posted by: magpie   2023-06-10 11:39  

#3  Apparently the cases will be tried in Florida and these attorneys are not licensced to practice there.
Posted by: Glenmore   2023-06-10 11:29  

#2  Different flavor.
Some chefs cook fish, some eggs, some desserts.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-06-10 05:29  

#1  Somebody persuaded them to move on … if they ever wanted to work again?
Posted by: Glenmore    2023-06-10 01:59  

00:00