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The vast majority — nearly $40 million — went to law firms working on his personal legal problems. But significant portions of their donations went to law firms defending Trump in civil cases involving his real-estate empire and its top executives, including Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump. Only about $861,000 was spent on law firms working exclusively on political issues. Where there were gaps, we contacted law firms and individual lawyers who received money from the PACs. In 2021 and 2022 combined, Trump spent $16 million on legal fees through the Save America PAC.

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☆ Trump just lost his star lawyer in his Stormy Daniels trial and E. Jean Carroll appeal
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewJoe Tacopina, a defense lawyer for former President Donald Trump who's known for representing famous clients, has withdrawn from two of Trump's major legal battles, including his Manhattan trial involving adult film star Stormy Daniels. Tacopina was one of the key players on Trump's legal team, with a list of high-profile trial victories under his belt. Tacopina isn't the first lawyer to quit Trump's team amid the former president's legal battles. In June, Attorneys Jim Trusty and John Rowley said they would stop representing Trump in his indictment over his handling of classified documents. Representatives for Trump and Tacopina Siegel & Deoreo did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Scott Perry’s texts reveal details about efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in 2020
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

I read it just as you dictated,” according to court records. The disclosure of the texts illuminate more of the behind-the-scenes discussions as Trump used powerful allies across the federal government to challenge the 2020 election results. The Washington Post has made public the full court document, and Politico also reported on the text messages. John Rowley, an attorney representing Perry, called the disclosure of the text messages this week “unfortunate.”“The communications reflect his efforts to understand real-time information about the 2020 election. Howell confidentially reviewed more than 2,000 documents Perry had sought to keep from investigators after they seized his cell phone last summer, including the text messages.

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☆ Former federal prosecutor joins Trump defense team Trump adds former federal prosecutor to his legal team as he faces multiple indictments
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Kristen Holmes Sara Murray Hannah Rabinowitz | Kristen Holmes | Sara Murray | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Donald Trump has added two new attorneys, including a former federal prosecutor from New York, to his legal team, a source familiar with the decision told CNN. Kendra Wharton, a white-collar defense lawyer who has experience practicing in Washington, DC, will also help the former president’s legal team with its defense. The pair adds to the extensive legal team the former president has put together. Rowley and Trusty soon resigned from his legal team entirely. His legal team is now led by Blanche, who Trump hired in April after being indicted in Manhattan.

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Jim Trusty, a former U.S. Justice Department official, filed a notice in Florida federal court asking a judge for approval to withdraw from the CNN case. A spokesperson for Trump thanked Trusty for his work on the case and said the lawsuit is "entering a new phase." Two other lawyers who were already representing Trump in other matters, Todd Blanche and Chris Kise, have now taken the lead in Trump’s defense in the documents case. CNN has asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit, calling it an attempt to silence criticism of the former president. Lindsey Halligan, who has also worked on the documents investigation, will continue to represent Trump, Trusty said.

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☆ Trump lawyer who quit classified documents case withdraws from $475 million CNN defamation suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

An attorney who quit the team defending Donald Trump in the criminal classified documents case said Friday he would no longer represent the former president in a separate defamation lawsuit against CNN. The lawyer, Jim Trusty, said in a court filing that his request to withdraw from the $475 million civil suit "is based upon irreconcilable differences" with Trump. Lindsey Halligan, Trump's remaining attorney in the defamation case, referred CNBC to the former president's spokesman Steven Cheung, who said that the defamation suit is "entering a new phase as more irrefutable facts are revealed." They bear little resemblance to Trump's civil defamation suit against CNN, which was filed in October. The outlet noted that Trump's lawsuit hinges on just five CNN pieces.

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During his arraignment, Mr. Trump is expected to be advised of his rights, and a judge will assess whether he has legal representation. The case against Mr. Trump is the second criminal prosecution against the former president this year. Mr. Trump was already arraigned in April in a New York courthouse on state charges that he falsified business records. In the case that has brought him to Miami, Mr. Trump has been charged with 37 counts of unauthorized retention of national security information. After the court appearance, Mr. Trump is expected to fly to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., to give remarks defending himself in the evening.

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But his defense team is still evolving after at least three key members left in recent weeks. Trump has also sought to add a Florida-based criminal defense lawyer to his team in the days since his indictment, according to sources familiar with the conversations. Kise, a former Florida solicitor general who has primarily handled civil cases, was brought on to Trump’s team last year after the FBI seized classified documents kept at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump has struggled in recent weeks to bolster his defense team as the documents investigation intensified. The day the indictment was unsealed, the pair abruptly announced their resignation from Trump’s legal team.

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☆ Trump pleaded not guilty in federal court for his blockbuster Mar-a-Lago documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | Insider Staff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in court after surrendering to US Marshals Tuesday. He's the first ex-president to be charged in federal court — and now the first to enter a plea. Trump entered the custody of the US Marshals Service and was arrested on Tuesday ahead of his historical court appearance at an arraignment in Miami federal court. On Friday, the court unsealed a 38-count indictment against Trump and Waltine Nauta, one of his personal aides. Win McNamee/Getty ImagesTrump held on to sensitive national security documents, prosecutors sayThis is the second pending criminal case against Trump.

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☆ What to know about Trump’s court appearance
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Trump’s aide, Walt Nauta, was also charged in the indictment and is expected to appear in court alongside the former president. Here’s what to know about Tuesday’s court appearance:What happens when Trump gets to the courthouse? CNN reported that Trump’s team has had difficulty retaining seasoned lawyers. The former president is set to return to his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort following his court appearance Tuesday. Following that court appearance, he flew back to Mar-a-Lago and delivered a speech in front of supporters that night.

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Trump mishandled classified documents that included information about the secretive U.S. nuclear program and potential domestic vulnerabilities in the event of an attack, the federal indictment said. Unauthorized disclosure of classified documents posed a risk to U.S. national security, foreign relations, and intelligence gathering, prosecutors said. Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign event in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., April 27, 2023. The indictment also alleges Trump conspired with Nauta to keep classified documents Trump had taken from the White House and hide them from a federal grand jury. The case does not prevent Trump from campaigning or taking office if he were to win the November 2024 presidential election.

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☆ Actually Trump was indicted on 37 counts, not 7
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Taylor Berman | John Cook | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Initial reports from most major publications — including Insider — said Trump faced 7 counts from the Department of Justice. But the actual indictment, unsealed Friday afternoon, reveals he's actually facing 37 counts. Maybe Trusty's fax machine was running out of ink, and the "3" in the 37 counts was obscured. According to the unsealed indictment, Trump privately praised the lawyer who deleted Hillary Clinton's emails and stored classified documents in one of Mar-a-Lago's shower. Read the full unsealed indictment against Trump here.

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☆ Two Trump Lawyers Quit a Day After His Indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Maggie Haberman | Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two of former President Donald J. Trump’s lawyers who had represented him in the classified documents investigation resigned from his legal team the day after he was indicted, according to a statement they released on Friday. Mr. Trump announced the departure of Mr. Trusty and Mr. Rowley in a post on Friday on his social media platform, Truth Social. He said he would be represented by a new lawyer, Todd Blanche. “I want to thank Jim Trusty and John Rowley for their work, but they were up against a very dishonest, corrupt, evil, and ‘sick’ group of people, the likes of which has not been seen before,” the former president wrote. “We will be announcing additional lawyers in the coming days.”

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Two lawyers who represented Donald Trump in the months before the former president was indicted on federal charges over his handling of classified documents quit working for him Friday morning. Trusty had made multiple appearances on television news shows Thursday evening and Friday morning to discuss the indictment of Trump in his capacity as his lawyer. Follow our live coverage of Donald Trump's indictment in the classified documents case. Trump first announced the two lawyers were leaving his cases in a post on his Truth Social platform. "We will be announcing additional lawyers in the coming days," wrote Trump, who is due to appear Tuesday in Miami court on the indictment charging him with several crimes.

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☆ 2 of Donald Trump's lawyers just quit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Two of Donald Trump's lawyers have stepped down. They'll no longer represent him in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and the Jan. 6 investigation, per CBS. Trump announced he's being indicted on federal charges over his handling of classified documents. Trump confirmed the two lawyers had departed on his Truth Social page on Friday morning, thanking them for their work. The Justice Department has been investigating Trump over classified documents that were found at his Mar-a-Lago property during an FBI search last summer.

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The indictment gives the clearest picture yet of the files that Mr. Trump took with him when he left the White House. Mr. Trump is expected to appear in Federal District Court in Miami on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Trump continued to rail against the indictment on Friday, calling it the “greatest witch hunt of all time,” in a Truth Social post. Two lawyers, James Trusty and John Rowley, have left Mr. Trump’s legal team, and will no longer represent him in the documents case. “I will be represented by Todd Blanche, Esq., and a firm to be named later,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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☆ Trump lawyers visit U.S. Justice Department amid documents probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Sarah N. Lynch | Thomson Reuters | Sarah N. Lynch Is The Lead Reporter For Reuters Covering The U.S. Justice Department Out Of Washington | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - Three lawyers for former President Donald Trump left the U.S. Department of Justice Monday amid reports that federal prosecutors are wrapping up an investigation into whether he mishandled classified documents. The three lawyers - Lindsey Halligan, John Rowley and James Trusty - declined to answer questions as they left the building in Washington. It was not immediately clear what any potential meeting between the lawyers and the department may mean for Trump. Lawyers typically meet with Justice Department representatives before an indictment is handed down. Trump's lawyers last month sent the department a letter asking for a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.

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☆ Trump lawyers meet with DOJ after ex-president slams indictment speculation
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump visits the driving range, meets fans and watches Round 2 of LIV Golf Washington DC 2023 at Trump National Golf Club Washington DC in Sterling, Virginia, United States on May 27, 2023. NBC News confirmed Trump lawyers on Monday met with officials at the DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C., after CBS News tweeted a photo of three attorneys walking in to the building. The lawyers, John Rowley, James Trusty and Lindsey Halligan, left the DOJ shortly before noon ET, but declined to comment, NBC reported. Lawyers for Donald Trump met Monday morning with Department of Justice officials, a day after the former president noted speculation that special counsel Jack Smith is moving closer to seeking an indictment of him. Trump has pleaded not guilty in that case, which is scheduled to go to trial next March, in the middle of the presidential primary season.

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