Washington, Nov 15, 2024 (AFP) - Trump names his criminal defense lawyers to top justice jobs

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2024-11-15

US President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his administration's legal team with veteran lawyers who defended him in his multiple criminal cases, following his stunning pick of former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz to be attorney general. Trump, the first former US president ever to be convicted of a crime, named Todd Blanche, his lawyer in his hush money trial in New York and two federal cases, to serve as deputy attorney general, the second hig......

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