Speaking to CNN on Saturday, Timothy Parlatore and Ty Cobb reinforced the dissension, alienation and alleged missteps that have plagued Donald Trump’s legal effort for years, writes Aaron Blake in Analysis.
and one fellow lawyer in particular for his departure. And he seemed to warn of the problems that that lawyer, Boris Epshteyn, is creating for Trump’s defense. Meanwhile, former top Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb went so far as to predict that Trump “” in the classified-documents case, while also citing the Trump team’s poor handling of it.
Parlatore is not the first Trump lawyer to cite infighting within Trump’s legal circle — and, as notably, to decide to go public with it. Nor is Cobb the first to go from advocating for Trump to pointing to his self-inflicted legal peril.Parlatore insisted that his departure didn’t stem from Trump or the substance of his defense in the classified-documents case. But he suggested Ephsteyn was effectively compromising that defense.
“The real reason is because there are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder than it needed to be,” Parlatore said. “In particular, there is one individual who works for him, Boris Epshteyn, who had really done everything he could to try to block us — to prevent us from doing what we could to defend the president.”“In my opinion, he was not very honest with us or with the client on certain things,” Parlatore added.
It’s not the first time Parlatore has at least gestured toward possible problems within Trump’s legal team. Just last month, he raised eyebrows by alluding to Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina’s “ ” in the Stormy Daniels case. He praised the other lead lawyer on the case, Susan Necheles, before raising the potential conflict issue. When pressed furtherThe new comments also hark back to Trump’s second impeachment, after which his lawyer David Schoen offered some
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