Two Trump top lawyers RESIGN just hours after his indictment trends now
A pair of 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 lawyers, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, announced their move in a statement, soon after Trump issued a post thanking them for their work and saying he would be announcing 'additional lawyers' in the coming days without saying who they were.
'This morning we tendered our resignations as counsel to President Trump, and we will no longer represent him on either the indicted case or the January 6 investigation,' said Trusty and Rowley, without further explanation for the reasons.
'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,' they said.
Trump lawyer Jim Trusty called the prosecution of his client 'rotten' and accused DOJ prosecutors of 'extortion.' He and John Rowley announced they were resigning from the defense hours after Trump got indicted
Their departure is just the latest legal shakeup involving Trump, who has continued to cycle through lawyers while facing multiple probes relating to classified documents, 'hush' payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, January 6, his election overturn effort in Georgia, and his business dealings in New York.
'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,' they wrote, CNBC reported.
Trusty, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer with experience in RICO cases, had been fiercely defending Trump just hours before, on a Friday appearance where he clashed with host George Stephanopoulos on ABC's 'This Week.'
In that appearance, he accused Biden of having 'authorized' the Justice Department to try to sink his political rival, something Stephanopoulos said was not the case. He also accused prosecutors of 'criminal activity' and extortion in a Thursday night appearance.
Trump wrote Friday after earlier issuing an angry video and posts about the charges: 'For purposes of fighting the Greatest Witch Hunt of all time, now moving to the Florida Courts, I will be represented by Todd
