Trump, in hush money trial, won’t use ‘advice of counsel’ defense — but will still argue lawyers were involved WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio [Video]

NEW YORK — Attorneys for Donald Trump say they will not invoke a formal “advice of counsel” defense when the former president is put on trial later this month for allegedly falsifying business records in New York, but they signaled in a court filing on Tuesday that Trump will argue he did not intend to break the law “because of his awareness that various lawyers were involved.”

Trump’s defense team faced a deadline this week to notify the court if they planned to assert an advice of counsel defense at the trial, which is scheduled to begin March 25.

According to the filing, defense lawyers will argue that “President Trump lacked the requisite intent to commit the conduct charged in the Indictment because of his awareness that various lawyers were involved in the underlying conduct giving rise to the charges.”

An advice of counsel defense would require that Trump prove …