Trump considers adding Alan Dershowitz to impeachment legal team

By Caitlin Yilek

Published December 12, 2019 2:51pm ET

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Trump considers adding Alan Dershowitz to impeachment legal team — Attorney Alan Dershowitz talks to the press outside federal court, in New York, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019. Dershowitz on Monday attended a court hearing in his ongoing legal battle with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a woman who claims to have been pressured into having sex with Dershowitz by Jeffrey Epstein when she was 17. She and Dershowitz are suing each other, each claiming the other is lying. | (Richard Drew/AP)

Law professor Alan Dershowitz could represent President Trump in his impeachment trial in the Senate.

The president and his advisers have considered expanding the legal team to add the controversial attorney, according to ABC News. Dershowitz was at the White House on Wednesday and spoke briefly before Trump signed an executive order on anti-Semitism.

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