Last updated on January 24th, 2025 at 12:20 am
Donald Trump’s lawyers really don’t like his new television lawyer, Joe Tacopina, Rolling Stone is reporting citing “a source familiar with the matter and another person close to Trump.”
Describing Tacopina as “dumb” and a “loudmouth,” Trump lawyers warn the former president that he should be careful.
“He pisses off others with his antics, but he’s a blunt object that Donald Trump wants, apparently,” says one of the sources.
Another source called Tacopina “such a frickin’ idiot.”
In the past week, Tacopina has spent days using his blusterous style to defend Trump on CNN and MSNBC. The problem, however, is that his comments have also provided no actual legal defense for Trump. As former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman explained, his comments have been “a total sideshow.” They’re designed to draw attention to something else entirely.
Tacopina falsely claimed that Trump never lied about his affair, a fact that is fairly well-known. Speaking to MSNBC host Ari Melber, Tacopina also began claiming that Trump’s own lawyer had gone rogue. It’s a problem that is quickly shot down by the recordings that Cohen gave to the grand jury.
“That doesn’t sound like someone who has a lawyer [Michael Cohen] who’s gone rogue, it sounds like someone using this lawyer to send the money to Daniels and the problem potentially for your client in New York is whether this was misclassified, a.k.a illegally written down as something it wasn’t,” said Melber.
“What would be illegal about it?” asked Tacopina.
“Well, I could show you,” Melber said, picking up the piece of paper with information on it. He began reading the Cohen court documents citing Trump as “Individual -1.”
Rolling Stone explained that the appearances of Tacopina haven’t been to Trump’s benefit.
“During a recent appearance on Ari Melber’s The Beat, for example, Tacopina tried to grab a piece of paper held by the MSNBC host during the heated exchange. Tacopina also defended Trump’s denial of paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair, albeit in a somewhat unique way: Insisting that the denial wasn’t a lie as it wasn’t made under oath,” said the report.
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