India, Aug. 6 -- Brandon Tatum, a YouTuber and former police officer who has been covering the Nolan Wells case, has revealed that attorney J. Tyler Cox, who represents three of the Mississippi boys who were with Wells on Horn Island, told him that Edward Andrew Paltzik will be representing the young men. The leading defamation attorney has been brought in to help Wells' friends, who "have been relentlessly targeted with accusations surrounding the death of their friend," Tatum wrote in an X post.

Paltzik has represented President Donald Trump and other political figures in high-profile legal matters, media disputes, and defamation claims.

"With Paltzik joining Cox, the message is unmistakable: Anyone who continues spreading reckless an...