The NY Times is out with a piece that sheds the light on Trump’s lawyer’s in fighting……
NOT a Good look for their client….
But then we’re talking about Donald Trump, eh?
Mr Choas Himself…..
A conflict inside former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team erupted into public view on Saturday as one of his former lawyers went on television to attack one of his current lawyers, who has been the focus of ire from others on the team.
The former lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, withdrew this past weekfrom representing Mr. Trump in the special counsel’s investigations into his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But Mr. Parlatore did not explain the reasons behind his departure at the time, saying only that it was not related to the merits of the inquiries.
Appearing on CNN on Saturday, Mr. Parlatore disclosed that his departure had been spurred by irreconcilable differences with Boris Epshteyn, another lawyer who has been working as something akin to an in-house counsel for the former president, hiring lawyers and coordinating their efforts to defend Mr. Trump.
Mr. Parlatore described how Mr. Epshteyn had hindered him and other lawyers from getting information to Mr. Trump, leaving the former president’s legal team at a disadvantage in dealing with the Justice Department, which is scrutinizing Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents after leaving office and his efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election….
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“He did everything he could do to try to block us,” Mr. Parlatore said, adding that it’s “difficult enough fighting against D.O.J.” but that when colleagues are “trying to undermine you, to block you,” that it made it “so I can’t do what I need to do as a lawyer.”
It was “ultimately not in the client’s best interest,” he said, adding that Mr. Epshteyn was “not very honest with us or the client” on certain things.
Most notably, Mr. Parlatore singled out Mr. Epshteyn as trying to keep the team from conducting additional searches of Mr. Trump’s properties after the F.B.I. executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club and residence in Florida, and discovered more than 100 additional classified documents….
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Somewhere ythe DOJ’s Jack Smith and company have to be smiling and shaking their heads as this plays out…..