Former Trump attorney says he left legal team because of infighting – POLITICO

Timothy Parlatore’s departure from Donald Trump’s legal team was first announced Wednesday. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Timothy Parlatore, an attorney who recently left former President Donald Trump’s legal team, said Saturday that he departed because of infighting, highlighting disputes with one Trump adviser. “The real reason is because there are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder than it needed to be,” he said to CNN’s Paula Reid on Saturday. “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 said that Epshteyn “served as a kind of a filter” when it came to passing along information to the former president and also “attempted to interfere with” the team’s effort to search some of Trump’s properties for classified documents. “In my opinion, he was not very honest with us or the client on certain things,” Parlatore said of Epshteyn. Trump’s campaign disputed his former lawyer’s assertions. “Mr. Parlatore is no longer a member of the legal team. His statements regarding current members of the legal team are unfounded and categorically false,” a spokesperson
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