Trump team may shift strategy after legal shake-up

Trump team may shift strategy after legal shake-up | iNFOnews.ca
President Donald Trump listens as United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks during an event to announce tariffs and investment restrictions on China, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Thursday, March 22, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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.

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