The law firm that has represented Donald Trump in various sexual harassment cases including the E. Jean Carroll case that has cost Trump at least $90 million to date, has asked a federal judge to release them from representing Trump and his campaign in a little-followed sexual discrimination case filed by former Mediaite and 2016 campaign staffer A.J. Delgado.
Delgado got pregnant by Trump advisor Jason Miller–the same man who allegedly induced an abortion in a pregnant former lover by slipping her medication in a smoothie without her knowledge–while working on the campaign in 2016. She claims Miller raped her; Miller denies the rape charge but doesn’t deny fathering the child. After she became pregnant, Delgado claims the campaign, directed by Stephen Bannon, Sean Spicer, and Reince Priebus, took responsibilities away from her.
Per the Daily Beast, the firm, LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Kittredge, Carlin & McPartland, claimed its relationship with its clients has suffered an “irreparable breakdown” that precludes the firm from acting as counsel. It did not specify the event, but Donald Trump has repeatedly ignored counsel’s advice, leading to deeper legal troubles.
Delgado, though, isn’t buying it, asserting to the court that the move is a delay tactic. In a brief, Delgado noted just two days before, the campaign was ordered to turn over “information concerning gender-related complaints against the Campaign during the 2016 and 2020 campaign cycles, including complaints of sexual harassment, gender, or pregnancy discrimination.” Perhaps the lawyers don’t want to get dragged into another Trump documents case.