Trumps legal team remains in disarray as new lawyer will no longer represent him in Russia probe
President Trumps legal team reversed course Sunday, announcing that a lawyer slated to join the attorneys handling the response to special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs Russia investigation will not come on board after all, the latest sign of disarray for Trumps legal strategy.
The development came three days after John Dowd, who had been Trumps top attorney handling the Russia inquiry, resigned amid strategy disputes with the president.
Trump is now left, at least temporarily, without a traditional criminal defense attorney as Muellers team appears to be entering a critical phase in its investigation into Moscows interference in the 2016 election and whether the presidents campaign cooperated with Russia in this effort.
Joseph diGenova, the lawyer Trump wanted to replace Dowd, has often stridently defended the president on Fox News Channel and cast the Mueller probe as a conspiracy against him. Trump enjoyed the TV appearances and wanted diGenova on his team even though he did not know him, officials say.
But in a statement on Sunday, a spokesman for Trumps legal team said both diGenova and his wife, Victoria Toensing, who is also a lawyer, would not be working on the Russia probe because clients they are representing in connection with the investigation posed conflicts of interest.
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