Former President Donald Trump's office announced Sunday evening that lawyers David Schoen and Bruce Castor Jr. will represent him at his Senate impeachment trial. Trump's previous team of five lawyers, led by Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, had parted ways with Trump on Saturday, and he faces a Tuesday deadline to file a response to the House's impeachment charge that he incited an insurrection.
Castor, a former district attorney in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, famously declined to charge Bill Cosby with sexual assault in 2006. Schoen, a defense lawyer based in Atlanta, told The Atlanta Jewish Times in September that he has "represented all sorts of reputed mobster figures: alleged head of Russian mafia in this country, Israeli mafia and two Italian bosses, as well a guy the government claimed was the biggest mafioso in the world." He also met with accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in jail shortly before his death in 2019 and has said he believes the disgraced financier, who committed suicide, was murdered.
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