Former President Trump
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The New York Times reports that one of Trump’s advisers, Justin Clark, told Bruce Castor on Wednesday that the former president did not want the attorney to appear on television again during the trial.
Castor then reportedly stood up screaming and claimed Trump was wrong in demoting him. According to the Times, the discussion became so heated that Castor eventually left the conference room, though he later apologized to Clark.
The Times noted that half a dozen members of Trump’s legal team passed through their reports of the incident at a meeting in a conference room at the former president’s hotel in Washington, DC.
The Hill has reached out to Trump’s office for comment.
Castor was added to Trump’s defense team about a week before the trial was due to begin, after reportedly being recommended by his cousin Stephen Castor, one of Trump’s aides. The hasty hiring of the Pennsylvania attorney came after reports came out that Butch Bowers, a South Carolina attorney who would lead Trump’s defense team, along with four other attorneys, left because of disagreements with Trump over how to approach the trial.
Commentators and politicians on both sides of the aisle last week criticized Castor’s long-running defense of the former president.
“Anyone who listened to President Trump’s legal team saw that they were not focused, they were trying to avoid the issue and they were talking about everything but the issue,” Sen. Bill Cassidy
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Castor fired back at the criticism, telling reporters, “Only one person’s opinion matters, and that’s what I’m doing.”
“You have to remember that we literally had a week and a day to prepare the defense and we were all people who had never met,” David Schoen, another member of Trump’s legal team, said in a statement. against the Times.
Schoen told the newspaper that he regretted not pushing Castor’s agenda and not informing Trump of Castor’s prominent role in the process.
“I admired his courage to jump right in,” Schoen told the Times. “Unfortunately, he was pretty well filtered by the media and some people thought the agenda might need to be reconsidered.”