Trump, legal defense team part ways as Senate impeachment trial looms

Former President Donald Trump and his legal team parted ways a little more than a week before his impeachment trial was scheduled to begin in the Senate on a charge that he incited the riot at the Capitol earlier this month, according to a report.

Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, noted for defending a slew of South Carolina politicians, pulled out of Trump’s team on Saturday, along with former federal prosecutors Greg Harris, Johnny Gasser and Josh Howard, Fox News reported on Sunday.

The report cited a source who said it was a mutual decision over the direction of the defense argument.​

The House impeached Trump on Jan. 13 on a charge of “incitement of an insurrection” with 10 Republicans, including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, crossing the aisle to vote with Democrats.