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Tacopina stepped away from defending Trump in his Manhattan case over alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, and also left Trump’s legal team in the former president’s appeal of a verdict in a civil defamation and sexual abuse suit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, the New York Times reported.
Drew Findling, a Georgia-based attorney who had been representing Trump in the Georgia case, stepped down, sources told multiple outlets, with Trump hiring attorney Steven Sadow as his lead counsel just hours before he surrendered to authorities in Fulton County.
Attorney Jim Trusty requested to withdraw earlier this summer due to “irreconcilable differences” between him and Trump that make him unable to “effectively and properly represent” the former president in his defamation suit against CNN—Trump accused the cable giant of running a “smear campaign” against him, which he claimed escalated ahead of his 2024 presidential campaign announcement in November.
Trusty and attorneys John Rowley said in a joint statement they will no longer represent Trump in either the classified documents case or an ongoing Justice Department investigation into his role in the January 6 insurrection, though they did not provide a reason for their departure other than to call it a “logical moment” to leave Trump’s legal team.
Attorney Tim Parlatore—who also represented Trump in Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into whether Trump mishandled classified White House documents after leaving office—resigned from Trump’s legal team, calling the move “personal” and not a reflection of his “belief in the strength of the case,” CNN and Politico reported.
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