Trump team may shift strategy after legal shake-up
Mar 22, 2018 | 10:15 AM
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s lead lawyer in the special counsel’s Russia investigation has resigned. The move on Thursday has shaken up the legal team just as Trump intensifies attacks on an inquiry he calls nothing more than a witch hunt.
The departure of attorney John Dowd removes the primary negotiator and legal strategist who had been moulding Trump’s defence.
It also comes just days after the Trump legal team added a new lawyer, former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova, who has accused FBI officials of being involved in a “brazen plot” to exonerate Hillary Clinton in the email investigation and to “frame” Trump for nonexistent crimes.
