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Inside Trump’s Philly impeachment team: Confusion, conflict, and threats to quit amid ‘out-and-out partisan war’

Trump's lawyers described a hastily assembled and pressure-filled effort to defend the former president. They won, but the path there wasn't always pretty.

Michael van der Veen, second from left, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, after Trump was acquitted in his second impeachment trial, along with William J. Brennan, third from left, another Trump lawyer, and Trump spokesperson Jason Miller, right.
Michael van der Veen, second from left, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, after Trump was acquitted in his second impeachment trial, along with William J. Brennan, third from left, another Trump lawyer, and Trump spokesperson Jason Miller, right.Read moreAlex Brandon / AP
    by Jeremy Roebuck
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