The GOP really should take this as a hint concerning their future if they stick with former President Trump:
Former President Donald Trump’s five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin, according to people familiar with the case, amid a disagreement over his legal strategy.
It was a dramatic development in the second impeachment trial for Trump, who has struggled to find lawyers willing to take his case. And now, with legal briefs due next week and a trial set to begin only days later, Trump is clinging to his election fraud charade and suddenly finds himself without legal representation.
Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, who were expected to be two of the lead attorneys, are no longer on the team. A source familiar with the changes said it was a mutual decision for both to leave the legal team. As the lead attorney, Bowers assembled the team.
Josh Howard, a North Carolina attorney who was recently added to the team, has also left, according to another source familiar with the changes. Johnny Gasser and Greg Harris, from South Carolina, are no longer involved with the case, either.
No other attorneys have announced they are working on Trump’s impeachment defense. [CNN/Politics]
If his lawyers are fleeing, perhaps their really is something to the allegations against him – and being on the wrong side of history will invalidate what passes for Republican ideology this day.
And, I idly think, perhaps the former President should represent himself at the trial. After all, he was an actor on a successful show at one time – perhaps his only successful job, ever. Even if he’s convicted, at least he’d get a smidgeon of attention.
