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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: Kamaji on April 05, 2023, 01:03:40 pm
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Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina: Weak charges ‘a relief’ that will be thrown out before trial
By Lee Brown
April 5, 2023
An attorney for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed the 34 federal charges as “spin” that will never make trial — insisting it was “a relief” to see how weak the final indictment is.
“I mean, where were the underlying charges in the indictment?” a baffled-sounding Joe Tacopina asked on the “Today” show a day after the indictment was finally posted after the 45th president appeared in Manhattan criminal court.
“The indictment did not list what these underlying charges are,” he said of the charges for falsifying business records tied to at-times unspecified campaign violations.
“Understand, these false business record entries — which are not even false — are misdemeanor counts” for which “the statute of limitations is long gone,” he claimed.
“The only way to make this a felony is to cobble together a couple of misdemeanors — the false business records and the attempt to cover up another crime. But the indictment doesn’t even list what the crime is.”
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/trump-lawyer-joe-tacopina-calls-weak-indictment-a-relief/
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He's right about the weakness of the charges. Not so sure about the never making it to trial part.
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He's right about the weakness of the charges. Not so sure about the never making it to trial part.
Yes, he's right about the charges being weak, but IMHO they will find a way to continue this horse and pony show for as long as they can. I still fear that Trump isn't going to escape jail time and fines which will keep him from running again.
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There is talk of a certain "paper trail" of signed checks, emails, and texts. This will all have to play out and may make a weak case into a long arduous affair to manipulate Trump's time and focus.