EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump has retained counsel from prime regulation agency Sullivan & Cromwell to characterize him in his ongoing enchantment efforts within the instances introduced in opposition to him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James, Fox News Digital has discovered.
The transfer comes after his authentic authorized group on the instances joined his administration in prime roles.
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The president shall be represented by Sullivan Cromwell co-chair and accomplice Robert J. Giuffra Jr.
Giuffra has been on the agency since 1989 after serving as a regulation clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Giuffra at the moment focuses on securities, white collar legal, product legal responsibility, industrial, insurance coverage, banking and tax litigation.
Trump additionally shall be represented by Matthew Schwartz, a accomplice of the agency who joined in 2007 after clerking for Justice Samuel Alito; Jeffrey Wall, one other accomplice who served as an appearing U.S. solicitor basic and has argued greater than 30 instances within the U.S. Supreme Court; James McDonald, a accomplice who served as an assistant U.S. Attorney within the Southern District of New York; and Morgan Ratner, a accomplice who has argued 9 instances earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court and who served within the Office of Solicitor General on the Justice Department.
Fox News Digital has discovered that Boris Epshteyn, Trump’s prime authorized advisor, is continuous his position as senior counsel, coordinating a wide selection of authorized fronts and issues for the president.
“President Donald J. Trump’s enchantment is essential for the rule of regulation, New York’s status as a world enterprise, monetary and authorized middle, in addition to for the presidency and all public officers,” Giuffra advised Fox News Digital. “The misuse of the legal regulation by the Manhattan DA to focus on President Trump units a harmful precedent, and we sit up for the case being dismissed on enchantment.”
The shift comes after the president tapped his former legal professionals on the instances to prime roles in his administration.
Trump appointed his lawyer Todd Blanche to function deputy lawyer basic and John Sauer as solicitor basic of the United States.
Emil Bove, additionally a Trump lawyer tapped for a prime position on the Justice Department, is serving because the appearing deputy lawyer basic, but when Blanche is confirmed, Bove will function principal affiliate deputy lawyer basic.

D. John Sauer, Trump’s former lawyer, has been tapped as U.S. solicitor basic within the Trump administration. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Will Scharf, who additionally represented the president in these instances, was appointed to function employees secretary on the White House.
Blanche, Sauer, Bove and Scharf efficiently defended the president in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Jan. 6, 2021, and alleged interference within the 2020 election in addition to in his categorized information case.
Sauer argued the case on presidential immunity earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court, main the excessive court docket to rule that presidents have immunity for nonofficial presidential acts.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump seems together with his authorized group Todd Blanche and Emil Bove forward of the beginning of jury choice at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024, in New York City. (Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images)
Smith’s categorized information case was dismissed in July 2024 by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon, who dominated that Smith was unlawfully appointed as particular counsel.
Smith charged Trump within the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., in his 2020 election case, however after Trump was elected president, Smith sought to dismiss the case. Judge Tanya Chutkan granted that request.

From left: Will Scharf, President Donald Trump and Emil Bove, throughout a 2024 information convention at Trump Tower in New York. (Cheney Orr/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)
Both instances have been dismissed.
The new authorized group will take over Trump’s appeals in each Bragg’s case and James’ case.
Trump was sentenced earlier in January by Judge Juan Merchan to an unconditional discharge after being discovered responsible on costs of falsifying enterprise information. Merchan didn’t sentence the president to jail, however relatively didn’t impose any punishment in any respect — no jail time, fines or probation.
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That sentence preserves Trump’s capability to enchantment the conviction — which Sullivan & Cromwell will take over.

From left to proper: Judge Juan Merchan, former President Donald Trump, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. (Getty Images, AP Images)
As for James’ case in opposition to Trump, New York Judge Arthur Engoron, after a weekslong nonjury civil fraud trial, dominated in 2024 that Trump and defendants have been chargeable for “persistent and repeated fraud,” “falsifying enterprise information,” “issuing false monetary statements,” “conspiracy to falsify false monetary statements,” “insurance coverage fraud,” and “conspiracy to commit insurance coverage fraud.”
But earlier than the trial started, Engoron issued a abstract judgment in opposition to Trump, making the next trial a case over the penalty to be paid.

Attorney General Letitia James speaks throughout a press convention. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Trump appealed the $454 million judgment. The enchantment is pending earlier than the New York Appeals Court.
Judges on the New York appeals court docket appeared receptive in 2024 to the potential for reversing or decreasing the $454 million civil fraud judgment.