- Legal experts panned Trump’s lawyers as they continue grappling with fallout from the Mar-a-Lago raid.
- One former prosecutor said they’re “either completely incompetent or out of their depth.”
- Experts also mocked the Trump team’s latest lawsuit as a “crazy document” and a PR stunt.
Legal experts and former prosecutors are widely panning former President Donald Trump’s team of lawyers as they continue grappling with the fallout from the FBI’s unprecedented Mar-a-Lago raid.
“They appear to be either completely incompetent, or out of their depth,” Renato Mariotti, a longtime former federal prosecutor, told Insider. “That’s part of the reason why the former president has trouble finding lawyers: because he demands that they file documents and take positions that have no legal support whatsoever.”
This week’s mockery of Trump’s legal team comes after they filed a lawsuit Monday requesting the appointment of a special master to sift out potentially privileged materials seized in the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid earlier this month.
One attorney familiar with the Trump team’s thought process expressed skepticism that the former president’s lawyers are equipped to handle a case like this, adding that Trump’s main focus appears to be on waging a PR war against the Justice Department.
“He’s a big believer of the public relations assault, which I’ve never seen work,” the lawyer told Insider. “It says to me that they want to kill the messenger, which speaks to consciousness of guilt instead of dealing with the facts.”
They added: “I don’t see anybody with the experience it takes to represent a former president in a case like this. There’s a lot at stake here. He’s always playing it right up against the wind and he’s a high risk guy.”
Trump’s current legal team includes Christina Bobb, a former host on the right-wing One America News; Lindsey Halligan, a Florida insurance lawyer; Alina Habba, who was once the general counsel for a parking garage firm; and Evan Corcoran and James Trusty, both of whom are former federal prosecutors.