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Timothy Parlatore, who had been a key attorney for Trump in the Justice Department’s special investigative attorney into the possible mishandling of classified documents at Trump’s Florida estate, told CNN in an interview Saturday that there were certain individuals defending it of the president much more difficult than it needed to be.

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to avoid doing what we could to defend the president.

Parlatore announced Wednesday that he was resigning from Trump’s legal team, a move that comes as Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation shows signs of winding down and approaches a decision on whether to press charges against the former president. .

The lawyer’s comments on Saturday provided additional context for the decision.

In a statement responding to Parlatore’s comments, a Trump spokesman said Mr. Parlatore is no longer a member of the legal team. His statements regarding the current members of the legal team are baseless and categorically false.

In his interview, Parlatore said that Epshteyn had acted as a filter,

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preventing the legal team from getting information about the investigation from or to Trump.

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Epshteyn had resisted the idea of ​​organizing the legal team

months ago

a search of Trump’s properties in Bedminster,

NJ

,

months ago

for possible additional secret documents, and that he had obstructed a defense strategy that focused on education

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Merrick Garland on the best way to handle this case.

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really make sure I can’t do what I know I have to do as a lawyer, Parlatore said.

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Getting into fights like this detracts from what is necessary to defend the customer and was ultimately not in the best interest of the customer,” he added. “So I made the decision to withdraw. “