Philadelphia Inquirer: “In introducing his new lawyer, Bruce L. Castor Jr., former President Donald Trump hailed his pick as a ‘highly respected trial lawyer’ who brought a national profile to the team that will defend him at his Senate impeachment trial next week. But in Castor’s home state of Pennsylvania on Monday, the choice left Trump’s closest allies, GOP officials, longtime colleagues – and even some of Castor’s closest friends – scratching their heads in confusion and surprise.”
“Few said they had any idea that Castor – Montgomery County’s former limelight loving, hard-charging district attorney, a man who harbored statewide political ambitions only to see them flame out as he burned bridges again and again with his own party – was up for such a high-profile job. Fewer still had the any inkling of how he – a man who hasn’t been involved in state politics in years, has cultivated no known links to Trump’s inner circle and hasn’t publicly endorsed the baseless notion, popular in his party, that the election was stolen by fraud – had found his way onto the former president’s radar.”