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“I am therefore confident that in the future they will be very well prepared and will do an excellent job in the matter,” Schoen said.
The defense comes after Castor’s performance was widely publicized after he made a tortuous argument that included the beginning of democracies, the naming of individual senators and only briefly mentioning the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, the centerpiece of the indictment. .
“Everyone who listened to President Trump’s legal team saw that they were not focused, they tried to avoid the case and they talked about everything but the issue,” Sen. Bill Cassidy
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“I thought the president’s lawyer, the first lawyer, was just jogging and not really addressing the constitutional argument,” Sen. John Cornyn
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Hannity told Schoen that during the proceedings he received calls from conservatives to tell him, “Whoa, we need someone who gets louder here.”
“There’s a lot to say, and I know they feel very strongly about fighting against what they see,” Schoen replied.