Trump abruptly replaced his top lawyers over the weekend, announcing Sunday night that attorneys David Show in and Bruce L.

Castor Jr will take over representing him at his Senate trial show.

In represented Trump's former adviser, Roger Stone, who was convicted of lying under oath, toe lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, while Caster is a former Pennsylvania district attorney known for his decision not to prosecute entertainer Bill Cosby in 2005 on sexual assault allegations that later sent Cosby to prison Thief.

Shakeup comes just before an official response to the impeachment charge is due on Tuesday and just over a week before the trial begins February 9th.

A source familiar with the situation described the departures of his former lawyers, Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbary, as a mutual decision, while a third source said Trump had differences with Bowers over strategy ahead of the trial as the former president clings to his baseless view that he was the victim of mass election fraud in the 2020 election in the House of Representatives.

Impeach Trump last month on a charge of incitement of insurrection.

We're gonna walk down to the capital after he encouraged his supporters on January 6th to fight his election defeat just before the deadly assault on the capital.

We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore.

With the two thirds majority needed to convict Trump in the Senate, Democrats face a Nepa Hill battle.

17 Republicans would need to break ranks and vote to convict.

But there are strong indications that won't happen.

Last week, 45 of the 50 Republican senators supported a failed resolution declaring the trial unconstitutional because Trump is now a private citizen, having left office on January 20th.