Friday morning saw the departure of two attorneys who had been working for Donald Trump in the months before to the former president's indictment on criminal charges for handling secret materials.
In a joint statement, Jim Trusty and John Rowley said that given his indictment on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Miami, "now is a logical moment" for them to resign. However, they did not go into any explanation as to why they had done so.
Trusty and Rowley also said that they will no longer defend Trump in a current federal criminal investigation investigating his attempts to reverse his defeat to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
In his role as Trump's attorney, Trusty had made many appearances on television news shows on Thursday night and Friday early to discuss the indictment of Trump.
Follow our live coverage of the indictment of Donald Trump in the case involving the sensitive materials.
In a tweet on his Truth Social platform, Trump first disclosed the departure of the two attorneys working on his cases.
He said that Todd Blanche, a New York attorney who is already representing him in a criminal case in Manhattan Supreme Court, would suddenly be his attorney.
In a state grand jury indictment, Trump is accused of fabricating financial documents pertaining to a hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election. In that instance, he entered a not-guilty plea.
Trump, who is scheduled to appear in court in Miami on Tuesday to answer to the indictment that names him as a suspect in many felonies, said, "We will be announcing additional counsel in the coming days."
After leaving the White House, Trump kept hundreds of highly sensitive federal papers at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, and is now facing charges of obstruction for refusing to turn those data over despite requests from American officials.
"This morning we offered our resignations as counsel to President Trump, and we will no longer represent him on either the indicted case or the January 6 inquiry," Trusty and Rowley stated in a joint statement.
The lawyers said: "Defending him over the last year has been an honour, and we are certain that he will prevail in his fight against the Biden Administration's politicized weaponization of the American judicial system.
The moment has come, they said, "now that the lawsuit has been filed in Miami, for us to step aside and allow others carry the cases through to conclusion." "We don't intend to speak to the media about our withdrawals or any other private conversations we've had with the President or his legal staff.
In a joint statement, Jim Trusty and John Rowley said that given his indictment on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Miami, "now is a logical moment" for them to resign. However, they did not go into any explanation as to why they had done so.
Trusty and Rowley also said that they will no longer defend Trump in a current federal criminal investigation investigating his attempts to reverse his defeat to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
In his role as Trump's attorney, Trusty had made many appearances on television news shows on Thursday night and Friday early to discuss the indictment of Trump.
Follow our live coverage of the indictment of Donald Trump in the case involving the sensitive materials.
In a tweet on his Truth Social platform, Trump first disclosed the departure of the two attorneys working on his cases.
He said that Todd Blanche, a New York attorney who is already representing him in a criminal case in Manhattan Supreme Court, would suddenly be his attorney.
In a state grand jury indictment, Trump is accused of fabricating financial documents pertaining to a hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election. In that instance, he entered a not-guilty plea.
Trump, who is scheduled to appear in court in Miami on Tuesday to answer to the indictment that names him as a suspect in many felonies, said, "We will be announcing additional counsel in the coming days."
After leaving the White House, Trump kept hundreds of highly sensitive federal papers at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, and is now facing charges of obstruction for refusing to turn those data over despite requests from American officials.
"This morning we offered our resignations as counsel to President Trump, and we will no longer represent him on either the indicted case or the January 6 inquiry," Trusty and Rowley stated in a joint statement.
The lawyers said: "Defending him over the last year has been an honour, and we are certain that he will prevail in his fight against the Biden Administration's politicized weaponization of the American judicial system.
The moment has come, they said, "now that the lawsuit has been filed in Miami, for us to step aside and allow others carry the cases through to conclusion." "We don't intend to speak to the media about our withdrawals or any other private conversations we've had with the President or his legal staff.
