By Andrew Goudsward
(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump has assembled overlapping teams of lawyers as he balances mounting legal peril with his 2024 election campaign to return to the White House.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges in each of the three cases he has been indicted.
Here are the main lawyers defending Trump:
NEW YORK STATE HUSH MONEY CASE
Trump was charged in April with falsifying business records to orchestrate hush money payments to a porn actress before the 2016 election.
MAR-A-LAGO US CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASE
U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith accused Trump in June of retaining sensitive national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after he left office and conspiring to thwart the U.S. government’s attempts to retrieve them.
2020 ELECTION CASE
Smith indicted Trump for a second time this month, this time over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Prosecutors charged Trump with defrauding the U.S. government and conspiring to deprive voters of their right to fair election by attempting to interfere in the counting of votes and prevent Congress from formally certifying the election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
GEORGIA 2020 ELECTION CASE
Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis has investigated attempts by Trump and his allies to interfere in the state’s vote count following the 2020 election. A grand jury is expected to bring indictments in the coming days, and Trump may face charges from the probe.
(Reporting by Andrew Goudsward; Editing by David Bario and Grant McCool)
