'How come I always get the worst lawyers?': Trump seethed that he had the 'stupidest' attorneys in his second impeachment trial, book says

• Trump fumed that he had the "stupidest" lawyers during his second impeachment trial, a new book said.
• "Where did they come from? Who hired them? How come I always get the worst lawyers?" Trump seethed.
• One Trump backer also joked that "We've gone through all the lawyers and are now down to law students."

Former President Donald Trump was not impressed with the team of lawyers representing him in his second impeachment trial, according to a new book.

He was "spitting furious" after a legal brief they filed was riddled with typos and he fumed to anyone who would listen that he had the "stupidest" lawyers, journalist Michael Wolff wrote in his new book, "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency."

"Are these lawyers the stupidest? Are they the stupidest?" Trump vented.

The president also complained to his former lawyers about the incompetence of his new lawyers, Bruce Castor, David Schoen, and Michael van der Veen.

"Who are they? Where did they come from? Who hired them? How come I always get the worst lawyers?" Trump seethed, according to Wolff's book.

The president's aides were also frustrated with his legal representation. At one point, several advisors were clustered outside the Capitol before the impeachment trial, "and nobody seemed to know why, except that somebody had said they needed to wait; Adam wasn't there."

"Who, somebody finally asked, is Adam?" Wolff wrote. "Adam was the legal intern who was going to drive the Jeep."

Wolff reported that Adam was late because he was "doing a law school quiz on Zoom."

Castor, Schoen, and van der Veen did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Trump has gone through a long roster of lawyers stretching back decades. His longtime fixer Michael Cohen is serving time after pleading guilty to a spate of felonies including tax evasion, campaign-finance violations, wire fraud, and lying to Congress.

The former president's most recent defense attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is facing a criminal investigation of his own into whether he violated foreign lobbying laws.

The lawyers who represented Trump during his first impeachment trial - Jay Sekulow, Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, Pat Cipollone, Robert Ray, Pam Bondi, and Jane Raskin - all declined to represent him during his second impeachment trial.