Newsman: Donald Trump hired Todd Blanche, a top lawyer as his lead counsel to handle the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal indictment of the former president just before a day his scheduled arraignment in New York City. .
Todd Blanche is a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, has previously represented Trump ally Paul Manafort as well as Igor Fruman, a onetime associate of Rudy Giuliani who pleaded guilty in a campaign finance case brought by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office.
Todd Blanche, an experience white collar defense lawyer from New York, will join Trump’s existing legal team, his campaign said.
Todd Blanche resigned from his position as a partner at an elite New York law firm to join the former president’s defense team
In his resignation email, Blanche said he was unable to take Trump as a client while remaining at Cadwalader, New York City’s oldest law firm and one of its most elite. “Obviously, doing this as a partner at Cadwalader was not an option, so I have had to make the difficult choice to leave the firm.”
Blanche, until recently a partner at law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, said in an email obtained by POLITICO that he was resigning from the firm because “I have been asked to represent Trump in the recently charged DA case, and after much thought/consideration, I have decided it is the best thing for me to do and an opportunity I should not pass up.”
