Trump Lawyer Resigns From Defense Team in Special Counsel Inquiries

Timothy Parlatore, one of the lawyers representing former President Donald J. Trump in the federal investigations into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has resigned from the former president’s legal team.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/us/politics/trump-lawyer-timothy-parlatore-resigns.html

Trump expects his lawyers to stick out their necks for him with his lies, and if things go wrong, Trump will just throw his lawyer under the bus, so any lawyer with any commonsense will not work for Trump.
 
Timothy Parlatore, one of the lawyers representing former President Donald J. Trump in the federal investigations into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has resigned from the former president’s legal team.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/us/politics/trump-lawyer-timothy-parlatore-resigns.html

Rats deserting the sinking, stinking ship? My favorite part from the linked article:

...aides “quickly packed everything into boxes and shipped them to Florida.” This hasty process, Mr. Parlatore argued, suggested that “White House institutional processes,” not “intentional decisions by President Trump,” were responsible for sensitive material being hauled away.

Last week, Mr. Trump appeared to undercut those assertions on live television, declaring at a CNN town hall event that he knowingly removed government records from the White House and claiming that he was allowed to take anything he wanted with him as his personal property.

I took the documents,” he said at the event. “I’m allowed to.
 
Yes, Biden had stolen classified materials stored illegally in his home, his garage, his Corvette and at his university and all over D.C.
 
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