We haven't seen indictment, says Trump lawyer

[SouthBayDem]

Source: BBC

Donald Trump's lawyer has said the ex-president's legal team has not seen the indictment against him and has only media reports to go on.

Joe Tacopina was speaking after a grand jury voted to indict Mr Trump in connection with a $130,000 pay-out to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Mr Trump's legal team did not know about the indictment until Thursday evening, Mr Tacopina told CBS.

He blamed "political persecution" for the grand jury's decision.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65141157

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. It is read with the charges at the Arraignment.

And this guy is a Lawyer?

[MayReasonRule]

7. LINO - Lawyer In Name Only...

[ificandream]

2. He's lying about the media reports.

News reports yesterday said the D.A.'s office had contacted them. A story on NPR.org posted at 5:30 p.m. says they had been contacted.

And this story from alaskapublic.org sources the lawyers as confirming the indictment.

Tacopina needs to get his story straight.

[agingdem]

4. Trump's lawyers are a reflection of their client...

smarmy, double talking, coarse, crude..

[Delphinus]

11. Agreed.

And great description!

[iluvtennis]

21. +++ agree @ificandream. n/t

[Igel]

26. But to work out arraignment details you need to say there's an indictment.

You don't need to say the details.

Unless the concern is that "5:30 pm" and "evening" can't refer to the same time.

It would be highly improbable for the details to be transmitted.

[Warpy]

3. Translation, "we haven't opened that email"

They're too busy listening to TFG shriek "they can't do this to ME!" through the blower.

MaraLardo will likely close early this year, process servers are wily and might look respectable enough to get in.

De Satan is going to be lots of fun to watch. He knows damned full well TFG will be extradited to NY.

[ificandream]

5. Yeah, that's true about DeSatan.

[Traildogbob]

6. oh no😱😱

Think of the lost revenue from his cult bubba’s that had planned to attend Mardi-Waco for the holiday weekend to play golf with him. All those poor folk’s that sit behind him as props that look like really good golfers, and elite clientele. Promises made…..What will Lindsay do for Easter Weekend golfing???
Oh Great!!😖

[hibbing]

8. Is there a pool on how long before Tacopina is charged with a crime? n/t

[maxsolomon]

9. Thought I heard it won't be unsealed till next week?

At the arraignment?

[Botany]

10. Aren't those indictments under seal until his arraignment next Tuesday?

Where did Trump and company find this clown?

[Traildogbob]

18. He is the equivalent

To Lawyers in New York as Donny is to Real Estate managers. Birds of feathers. Mobsters of both professions. Criminal scum that skate free of the law.

[EarthFirst]

12. Excellent lawyering you've got there TFG...

Good fucking luck…lol

[Botany]

15. Trump's lawyer is not doing him any favors in his public comments

A good lawyer should never talk like this in public.

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"I've never been more angry about a charge because today the rule of law in the United States of America died. It's dead. And it's something that I never thought I'd see. I have goosebumps even saying it because I don't feel good about saying it," Tacopina said.

Tacopina warned that Bragg "stretched" the law against a rival individual in a way that makes for a precedent that will be hard to undo for future cases.

snip

"It never was that way in the United States. It's not supposed to be that way, and when we start doing that, we're no better than those other horrific, horrific dictatorships and governments that abused rule of law."

Even "unpopular" American citizens over the years have benefited from the rule of law, while Bragg has flipped that custom on its head, he added.

"There is no crime," he said, later adding that he would almost "pay" his client to be the one to cross-examine star prosecution witness Michael Cohen, the mogul's former "fixer," describing the convicted counsel as a pathological liar who has contradicted himself many times.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-attorney-top-legal-experts-react-indictment-rule-law-died

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. I don't think Tacopina can shut his mouth long enough to read his mail.

Or, the Trump legal team has lawyers who do lawyer stuff, and other lawyers who are only supposed to talk tough to reporters.

Tacopino might just be another Scaramucci, loud, and working for a brief time.

[Traildogbob]

14. So trumps people

Say he will fly to New York Monday. Well, we had better set up no fly zones before then, Maybe get all out Surface to Air Missiles on high alert prior to Monday in case he plans on fleeing to somewhere that has more power then DeSatan to harbor a traitorous criminal from extradition.

[Kennah]

17. If he flees, let him go. It's the best thing that could happen.

[Traildogbob]

19. Only if he takes ALL his spawn and wife.

[Kennah]

20. They better be ready to fend for themselves because he'll cut them off to save himself

[Traildogbob]

22. Hopefully

He cuts Melania off so we don’t have to continue his retirement benefits to her after he croaks, if he ever croaks. That much evil may live longer than vampires.

[C Moon]

24. He won't flee anywhere, after seeing what he was able to do January 6th?

[Traildogbob]

25. That is sadly true.

[Kennah]

16. No problem, Joe. NYPD can breach the doors of Mar-a-Lago.

[Novara]

23. It's the ONLY reason it hasn't been splashed all over social media

Because he doesn't know. Otherwise he would have blabbed it out of his anus to everyone.

I would have thought they'd have told the attorneys when they worked out his surrender, but I guess not.

But think about this - it will make you smile - the orange fuckstick has to stand there with his mouth shut when each count is read off. Maybe he even has to say "not guilty" to each one - I'm not sure about that.

I hope they have cameras in the courtroom for that.

[keithbvadu2]

27. None of them had seen the indictment when Dotard declared he would be arrested last Tuesday.

None of them had seen the indictment when Dotard declared he would be arrested last Tuesday.

Did his lawyer call him a liar back then?

[republianmushroom]

28. 26 months and counting

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. The orange one says he has been indicated