Trump names 2 lawyers to impeachment defense team

Donald Trump on Sunday named two lawyers to his impeachment defense team, one day after it was revealed that former president h parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys.

two lawyers representing him will be David Schoen, an Alabama attorney, and Bruce Castor, a former prosecutor in Pennsylvania.

Trump's team revealed Saturday that several South Carolina lawyers who were set to represent him at trial starting next week were longer participating.

Trump, first president in American history to be impeached twice, is set to stand trial in Senate on a charge that he incited his supporters to storm Congress on Jan. 6 as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

Republicans and Trump aides have me clear that y intend to make a simple argument in trial: Trump’s trial is unconstitutional because he is longer in office. Legal scholars say re is bar to an impeachment trial despite Trump having left White House.

“ Democrats’ efforts to impeach a president who has alrey left office is totally unconstitutional and so b for our country," Trump viser Jason Miller has said.