Former President Donald Trump, as well as his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., hired attorney Jesse Binnall to represent each of them in a lawsuit filed by Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), according to a person with knowledge of what matters.
Binnall, a Virginia-based Republican lawyer, previously represented former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn, alongside attorney Sidney Powell, after prosecutors accused him of lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russian ambassador in the United States. United States
More recently, Binnall filed a lawsuit in Nevada on behalf of the Trump campaign that sought to overthrow President Joe Biden’s electoral victory there, and he also represented Defending the Republic, a legal group founded in part by Powell, in a defamation suit. powered by Domain Voting Systems.
Trump Jr. is now the second member of the Trump family to be represented by Binnall after the lawyer signed to represent former President Trump in a similar lawsuit filed by Mississippi Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson.
The Thompson and Swalwell lawsuits allege that Trump and his associates violated the Ku Klux Klan law of 1871 and that Trump’s rhetoric was part of a deliberate attempt to incite protesters to interrupt Congressional certification of President Biden’s victory on January 6. .
Binnall also represented Trump in a lawsuit filed in November against the then president, his campaign and the Republican National Committee. The lawsuit alleged that Trump “sought to overturn the election result by depriving voters, in particular voters of color”, in part by “intimidating election officials and voting tabs while counting the votes.”