The legal team representing the president in the special counsel’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is in flux. Since then, the president has struggled to find top-notch defence lawyers willing to represent him, The Washington Post reported last week. Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2018Among the reasons that some firms are not interested in the work: Trump is a difficult client to work with and often ignores the advice of his legal counsel. At the last minute Friday, the president threatened to veto the spending bill but then signed it into law.

Source: National Post March 25, 2018 14:48 UTC