{"id":1947264,"date":"2023-06-14T15:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-attorneys-heading-trumps-defense-against-bidens-prosecutors-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2023-06-14T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T19:52:39","slug":"meet-the-attorneys-heading-trumps-defense-against-bidens-prosecutors-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-attorneys-heading-trumps-defense-against-bidens-prosecutors-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Trump&#8217;s Defense Attorneys Battling Biden&#8217;s Prosecutors in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeet-the-attorneys-heading-trumps-defense-against-bidens-prosecutors-in-florida%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1947264&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Todd Blanche and Chris Kise, two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-different-kind-of-gun-grabbing\/\" title=\"A Different Kind of Gun-Grabbing\">high-powered attorneys<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a>, respectively, appeared alongside former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> for his arraignment at a federal courthouse in Florida on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche and Kise have been part of Trump\u2019s legal defense for some time as the former president battles state and federal indictments and investigations. After his federal indictment last week, Trump reshuffled his legal team. Two of his attorneys, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, resigned, and Blanche took the lead on the case with Kise assisting.<\/p>\n<p>Trump brought Blanche on in early April. Blanche resigned as a partner at the elite law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham &#038; Taft, the oldest firm in New York City, to take Trump\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been asked to represent Trump in the recently charged DA case, and after much thought\/consideration, I have decided it is the best thing for me to do and an opportunity I should not pass up,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/04\/03\/trump-todd-blanche-indictment-attorney-00090157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche is a former federal prosecutor and a veteran defender in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-attorneys-heading-trumps-defense-against-bidens-prosecutors-in-florida\/\" title=\"Introducing Trump's Defense Attorneys Battling Biden's Prosecutors in Florida\">white-collar crime cases<\/a>. As a federal prosecutor, Blanche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/author\/todd-blanche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">served<\/a> as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for nine years, earning accolades from the Department of Justice for his work.<\/p>\n<p>He co-led the Southern District of New York\u2019s White Plains Division, running investigations and prosecutions of public corruption, bank fraud, racketeering, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/malliotakis-adams-engaged-in-mixed-messaging-on-crime-by-praising-manhattan-d-a-well-see-if-it-was-all-rhetoric\/\" title=\"Malliotakis: Adams Engaged in 'Mixed Messaging' on Crime by Praising Manhattan D.A., We'll See if 'It Was all Rhetoric'\">white-collar crimes<\/a>. He went into private practice after leaving the Southern District of New York, eventually joining Cadwalader in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>As a defense attorney, Blanche represented Paul Manafort, a Trump ally and chair of the former president\u2019s 2016 campaign. Manafort was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/03\/13\/paul-manafort-sentencing-1219274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> to 7.5 years in prison in 2019 on charges stemming from former special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into the Trump campaign\u2019s alleged ties to Russia. Similar New York state charges leveled against Manafort were dropped for double jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Blanche also represented Igor Fruman, an associate of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. Fruman took a plea deal on campaign finance-related charges.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Blanche\u2019s partner in Trump\u2019s document case, Kise, was brought on to Trump\u2019s legal team in August to work on the documents case. Kise soon shifted to working on Trump\u2019s defense in a New York case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.<\/p>\n<p>Kise\u2019s CV includes four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-can-do-it-all-trump-brings-on-high-powered-florida-litigator-to-manage-fbi-raid-case\/\" title=\"He can do it all: Trump hires high-powered Florida lawyer to manage FBI raid case\">successfully argued cases<\/a> before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has argued dozens of others in front of the Supreme Court of Florida and has extensive experience across state and federal courts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/he-can-do-it-all-trump-brings-on-high-powered-florida-litigator-to-manage-fbi-raid-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kise<\/a> is a longtime fixture in Florida GOP politics. He served as Florida\u2019s solicitor general from 2003 to 2006 under then-Attorney General Charlie Crist, who was a Republican at the time. Kise served as counsel to Crist when he became governor, and Kise later served as general counsel to former Florida Governor Rick Scott\u2019s transition team in 2010 and then again for Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019s team in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>During DeSantis\u2019s 2018 run for governor against Democratic candidate and former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, Kise\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/florida-politics\/buzz\/2018\/10\/25\/meet-the-lawyer-who-dropped-a-political-bombshell-on-the-florida-governors-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released<\/a>\u00a02016 text messages showing Gillum accepted tickets to see the Broadway play \u201cHamilton\u201d from an undercover FBI agent. The texts exacerbated ethical and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hires-florida-former-top-litigator-to-manage-fbi-raid-case\/\" title=\"Trump Hires Florida Former Top Litigator to Manage FBI Raid Case\">corruption concerns hanging<\/a> over Gillum\u2019s mayoral administration.<\/p>\n<p>Kise, who made the texts public two weeks before election day, denied releasing the messages for any political motive. He said he was doing what was right for his then-client, Adam Corey, a Tallahassee lobbyist who was once considered a staunch Gillum ally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-powered attorneys Todd Blanche and Chris Kise joined former President Donald Trump at his Florida arraignment. They have long been part of his legal defense, aiding him in his ongoing battles against state and federal indictments and investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1947265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4849,17432,3706,3998,5113,5854,5169,3794],"class_list":["post-1947264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-attorneys","tag-battling","tag-bidens","tag-defense","tag-florida","tag-introducing","tag-prosecutors","tag-trumps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1947265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}