Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has responded to assertions by Timothy Parlatore, a lawyer who said he left the team because of disagreements on strategies in the wake of the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago.
Parlatore discussed his departure from Trump’s legal team on CNN’s “Newsroom” on Saturday, saying that the presence of “certain individuals” in the team has “made defending the president much harder than it needed to be.”
“There is one individual who works for him, Boris Epshteyn, who had really done everything he could to try to block us, to prevent us from doing what we could to defend the president,” Parlatore, who announced quitting the legal team on Wednesday, told CNN’s Paula Reid.
Parlatore also accused Epshteyn of acting like “a filter” that prevented lawyers from providing Trump with information and getting information from Trump.
“There were certain things like the searches that he had attempted to interfere with,” Parlatore