Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina: Weak charges ‘a relief’ that will be thrown out before trialBy 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/