Two of Trump’s top lawyers RETIRED just hours after his indictment
A few lawyers for former President Donald Trump announced they were leaving his defense team just hours after he was indicted on classified documents and obstruction charges.
The attorneys, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, announced their move in a statement shortly after Trump posted a message thanking them for their work and saying he would announce “additional attorneys” in the coming days without saying who they were .
“This morning we tendered our resignation as counsel for President Trump, and we will no longer be representing him in the January 6 indictment or investigation,” Trusty and Rowley said, without further explanation of the reasons.
“It has been an honor to have defended him this past year, and we know he will be vindicated in his fight against the Biden administration’s partisan arming of the American justice system,” they said.
Trump attorney Jim Trusty called his client’s prosecution “rotten” and accused DOJ prosecutors of “extortion.” He and John Rowley announced they were resigning from the defense hours after Trump was indicted
Their departure is just the latest legal shake-up involving Trump, who has continued to be cycled by lawyers as he faced multiple investigations related to classified documents, “silence” payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, January 6, his attempts to win the election in Georgia, and his business dealings in New York.
“With the Miami case filed, now is a logical time for us to step aside and let others bring the case to completion,” they wrote. “We do not intend to make media appearances about our withdrawals or any other confidential communications we have had with the president or his legal team,” they wrote. CNBC reported.
Trusty, a Washington, D.C. attorney with experience in RICO cases, had vehemently defended Trump just hours before, during a Friday appearance where he clashed with host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”
In that appearance, he accused Biden of “authorizing” the Justice Department to try to sink his political rival, something Stephanopoulos said was not the case. He also charged prosecutors with “criminal activity” and extortion on Thursday night.
Trump wrote on Friday after previously posting an angry video and messages about the allegations: “To fight the Greatest Witch Hunt of All Time, which now moves to the Florida Courts, I will be represented by Todd Blanche, Esq., and a firm to be mentioned later. I want to thank Jim Trusty and John Rowley for their work, but they had to go up against a very dishonest, corrupt, evil and ‘sick’ group of people, the likes of which has never been seen before. We will be announcing additional lawyers in the coming days. When will Joe Biden be indicted for his many crimes against our nation? MAGA!
On Thursday night, Trusty claimed federal prosecutors “extorted” a key witness’ attorney and is demanding an internal communications investigation to find out what happened.
Trusty made up the allegations CNN hours after Trump was indicted on counts related to the retention of classified documents and a violation of the espionage law, he called it a “corrupt and politicized” process.
Next, Trusty went after federal prosecutor Jay Bratt, head of the DOJ’s National Security Division’s counterintelligence division, who last year urged a court to seal the affidavit that preceded a Mar-a-Lago search held secretly there. revealed material.
His accusations related to the lawyer of former bodyguard Walt Nauta, who served as a military aide to the president in the White House, and who was himself indicted Friday.
He reportedly moved boxes of documents around Mar-a-Lago around the time the FBI visited him to collect government materials.
Trusty suggested that federal prosecutors, while trying to line up witnesses who could help them defend their case against Trump, were trying to apply pressure by bringing forward a judicial office requested by Nauta’s attorney Stanley Woodward.
The conversation is said to have occurred when Bratt was speaking at a meeting with Woodward that the lawyer had applied for a DC judicial office with a solid resume. According to Trusty, prosecutors attempted to use the information as “extortion” leverage, merely bringing up the subject of the career jump Woodward had sought.