- Donald Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, on Sunday attempted to distanced himself from his client’s social media and other attacks on Alvin Bragg, as the Manhattan district attorney considers criminal charges against his client.
- “I’m not his social media consultant,” Tacopina said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
- However, Tacopina acknowledged one post last week, apparently the one in which the former president was holding a baseball bat, that it thought it was “ill-advised” and that one of social media people put up the post and Trump quickly took it down upon realized “the rhetoric and the photo that was attached to it.”
- A New York grand jury in investigating Trump having adult film star Stormy Daniels hush money during his 2016 presidential campaign, which is the basics for Bragg deciding whether in indict the former president on criminal charges in connection to the matter. is probing how the payments were documented on the books of the Trump Organization.
- “I’m not going to defend or condemn anything regarding social media. That’s not what I do,” Tacopina also said. “I’m not a Trump PR person. I’m a litigator and a lawyer, and I’m talking about this case in Manhattan.”
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Trump Lawyer Tacopina Says, ‘Not His Social Media Consultant,’ But Bragg Post ‘Ill-Advised’
FILE - Former President Donald J. Trump watches the NCAA Wrestling Championships, Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Tulsa, Okla. Trump’s calls for protests ahead of his anticipated indictment in New York have generated mostly muted reactions from supporters, with even some of his most ardent loyalists dismissing the idea as a waste of time or a law enforcement trap. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
