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    Trump adds celebrity lawyers — and their baggage — to impeachment defense team

    by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Jan 18, 2020 6 minutes

    WASHINGTON - As he heads into a fraught Senate impeachment trial, President Donald Trump boosted his defense team Friday by adding a bevy of high-wattage outside lawyers who carry considerable political baggage but are practiced in the arts of legal theatrics and comfortable in the glare of TV lights.

    Chief among them were Alan Dershowitz, who has defended celebrity clients including Mike Tyson and O.J. Simpson, and Kenneth Starr, whose four-year independent counsel investigation led to the House impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.

    Both veteran lawyers are brand-name fixtures on Fox News, where they have fiercely defended Trump in his impeachment struggle, and can be expected to deliver a spirited defense on the Senate floor once the trial gets past a rules debate next week.

    But both attorneys have seen their careers tarred in recent years for helping billionaire Jeffrey Epstein win a lenient plea deal in Florida in

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