Bruce Castor, who will be representing former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate beginning Tuesday, said his team will not be using election fraud as a defense.
"It's such a polarizing issue, I don't see any tactical advantage in injecting a problem into the case," Castor said Monday in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Castor and David Schoen joined Trump's legal team Jan. 31, shortly after his previous lawyers and the former president parted ways. At the time, it was reported Trump had wanted to use election fraud as the defense strategy, while the legal team wanted to focus on the constitutionality of trying a private citizen.
But that defense appears to be the tactic that will be taken by the new legal team after all. Castor told the Journal there is no point in putting the president on trial after he is out of office.
"We are in the same spot as we would be if Donald Trump had died and they were still trying to impeach him," Castor said.
But his detractors say there is more to it than that, arguing they want to keep him from holding office again in the future.
The single article impeachment accuses Trump of inciting the Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol as a joint session of Congress was certifying election results that ultimately declared Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump has said his speech at a rally earlier had nothing to do with the riot and the rioters acted on their own. He pointed to the fact he specifically told rallygoers to march to the Capitol and "peacefully make your voices heard."
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