The president faces a second impeachment trial after Congress accused him of instigating the uprising. Photo: AP
WASHINGTON.
Within a week of leaving the White House, United States President Donald Trump selected lawyers to defend him in the impeachment process.
One of the elect will be Rudy Giuliani, who was the Republican’s personal attorney and headed up appeal strategy after the Nov. 3 presidential election.
John Eastman is also being considered for the president’s defense team.
Eastman, 60, backed groundless allegations of voter fraud at the rally for the storming of the Capitol.
The defender has not confirmed or denied whether he will represent Trump, citing respect for privacy between attorney and client.
If the President of the United States asked me to help him, I would certainly consider it, ”said the former professor at Chapman University in California.
In a similar vein, Eastman accused of having secret ballot folders in the election to generate fraud.
Alan Dershowitz is also considered part of the Republican team.
In this context, President Trump ordered his associates to suspend payment of his attorney Giuliani’s legal fees, the paper said. The Washington Post.
According to the newspaper, Giuliani asked for a payment of $ 20,000 a day for his work to appeal the results of the presidential election.
Faced with the failure of the charges, Trump expressed his exasperation to the attorney and to the vice president, Mike Pence.
Last Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives made Trump the first president of that country to be charged twice with impeachment, accusing him of instigating an uprising when lawmakers tried to confirm Joe Biden’s victory in the election. elections.
FINE PER PARTY
Mar-a-Lago Golf Club, the residence of US President Donald Trump, in Florida, received a warning from the authorities for holding a party in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
For that meeting, the social club must pay a fine of up to $ 15,000.
This is the result of the publication of a video of a New Year’s Eve party in which a crowd without masks is observed on the dance floor.
Despite the measures taken by the club to allow visitors to wear masks, “it appears that, based on video evidence, almost the entire guest room was lacking masks,” Palm Beach County said in a letter.
The letter, dated Jan. 12, was addressed to Mar-a-Lago vice president and director, Bernd Lembcke, after one of the president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr., posted a video of the party on the networks. . social.
Okay, this is great. Vanilla Ice plays Mar-a-Lago’s New Year’s Eve party. I feel like a kid in the 90’s… ”he wrote in the publication.
-AFP
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