NEW: At a time of peak legal peril for Trump, his attorneys had the knives out — for each other.
In late April, Parlatore and other involved attorneys were barred from doing media appearances specifically about ato the House intelligence committee telling Congress that the Justice Department “should be ordered to stand down” from its classified documents probe in favor of an investigation by the intelligence committee.
The letter, which revealed that documents relating to Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders were likely among those found at his residence, argued that the papers arrived at Mar-a-Lago because White House staff “simply swept all documents from the President’s desk and other areas into boxes,” according to a copy of the letter reviewed by CNN.that the letter infuriated Trump after Epshteyn and others told him the contents of the letter could undermine his legal defense.
In recent months, the level of distrust among Trump’s legal advisers — who’ve been tasked with keeping him out of legal jeopardy in an Espionage Act investigation — was so high that they’d routinely accuse one another of leaking to the media, with or without actual evidence. Epshteyn has himself claimed to Trump that Parlatore was a prolific leaker, and someone who couldn’t be trusted.
But the internal conflict plaguing the legal team is a hallmark of the former president’s leadership, as Trump has continually fostered rivalries and hostility within his own teams.
In addition to the infighting among Trump’s lawyers, the indictment unsealed on Friday also revealed that Trump allegedly worked to undermine his own attorney’s efforts in their dealings with the FBI. Prosecutors claim that Trump worked with his aide Walt Nauta to move classified documents in order “to conceal them from Trump’s attorney, the FBI, and the grand jury” shortly before attorneys carried out a search for the missing papers on behalf of law enforcement.
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