13 Facts About David Schoen

David Schoen is an American attorney specializing in federal criminal defense and civil rights law.

David Schoen was one of the attorneys who represented former president Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate.

Schoen was born in Washington, DC His father was an FBI agent who died when Schoen was four years old.

David Schoen's mother was a businesswoman who ran a Ford dealership.

David Schoen has received degrees from George Washington University, Boston College Law School, and Columbia University Law School.

David Schoen represented Roger Stone during his trial related to charges made during the Mueller investigation and briefly Jeffrey Epstein before his suicide.

David Schoen was one of the lawyers representing Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate.

David Schoen contended that the impeachment was fueled by "base hatred" and a "lust for impeachment".

David Schoen held up a copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung in comparing the impeachment to the actions of authoritarian regimes.

David Schoen closed his argument on day one with an emotional recital of a portion of the 1849 poem, "The Building of the Ship" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

David Schoen represented former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon in 2022, after Bannon was indicted for criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the January 6 committee.

Days before Bannon's trial was to begin, David Schoen made court motions in Bannon's defense to presiding judge Carl Nichols, which were rejected.

Fellow Jews speculated that David Schoen was either reflexively reaching to keep a phantom yarmulke from falling off or covering his head with his hand while saying a blessing over his water.