A retro crew including Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr will reportedly represent President Donald Trump at the Senate’s impeachment trial.
According to several reports about the team Friday morning, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal lawyer Jay Sekulow will lead the team of lawyers defending Trump in the Senate.
They’ll be joined by Dershowitz and Starr, as well as Robert Ray. The list notably excludes the man at the center of the Ukraine pressure campaign, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
The White House didn’t immediately respond to TPM’s request to confirm the news.
In the 90s, Ray and Starr ran the Office of the Independent Counsel, which investigated then-President Bill Clinton on everything from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky. She commented on the staffing move Friday.
this is definitely an “are you fucking kidding me?” kinda day.
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) January 17, 2020
A spokesperson for the legal team told The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman that Dershowitz, famous for representing OJ Simpson and, more recently, for his ties to the alleged human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, “will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal.”
What a joke.
“Grumpy old Men”. More proof that Trump and the GOP will turn the trial into a farce. These guys are poison and it shows that they already believe that they have acquittal all sewed up. It’s not a defense it’s offensive and these old assholes will make a mockery of the proceedings.
I think you’ll see a lot of theatre, a flurry of lies and misrepresentations of the evidence in order to give the GOP the fig leafs needed to vote to acquit. Dems are going to have hammer home the facts of this case, the impact to national security, and the issue of lawlessness.
I hear that Former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore is in between gigs.
So witnesses testifying under oath?