CNN reports:
“We’re not doing anything at the arraignment because that would be showmanship and nothing more because we haven’t even seen the indictment yet. We will take the indictment, we will dissect it, the team will look at every potential issue that we will be able to challenge and we will challenge it,” Joe Tacopina told CNN’s Dana Bash.
Tacopina and other Trump lawyers have done several TV interviews in anticipation of the former President’s first appearance in court Tuesday, when he will learn the charges that the Manhattan grand jury has approved against him. At times, the lawyers have vowed to ask for the charges to be dismissed. But the full slate of charges still aren’t known.
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“Are you going to ask for a different judge?”@DanaBashCNN presses Joseph Tacopina, attorney for former President Donald Trump, about Trump’s claims that the judge presiding over the hush money case hates him. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/zNbkQbvLmy
— CNN (@CNN) April 2, 2023
Trump lawyer Tacopina on CNN
-“I have no issue with this judge whatsoever”
-“My client has a right to have an issue with everything”
-“I have no reason to believe this judge is biased”— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) April 2, 2023
Donald Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, tells CNN he doesn’t know what Trump’s surrender is going to look like, he’s hoping it will be as “painless and classy” as possible.
— Katie Simpson (@Katie___Simpson) April 2, 2023