Donald Trump attorney scrambles to change defense before looming indictment

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Donald Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina has said the legal system had been weaponized against his client.

probes into his role in the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, his alleged mishandling of classified documents, and an investigation into alleged election tampering in Georgia. A formal charge resulting from any of those investigations would make Trump the first former president in American history to be indicted.

The attorney said that Trump has denied from"day one having an affair with this woman.""What he is, is an extortion victim," Tacopina said. "Here is the key, it would be done irrespective of the campaign because as Michael Cohen—the convicted purger, liar, the guy has zero credibility, I don't even think he had a law license, quite frankly.

On Thursday, Trump's team issued a statement alleging he was a victim of extortion and argued potential indictments were a political attack on the former president, according toThe statement from a Trump spokesperson read:"The Manhattan District Attorney's threat to indict President Trump is simply insane.

 

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Joe, you only said that because Trump told u to say that.

LMAO

His attorney is a joke. He is sweating on Ari. Yes it’s taken years just like the Mafia and we saw what happened there,they all went to jail. Joe is pulling a Roy Cohn who ended up in jail

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NO... Donald Trump IS A CRIMINAL.. That is a FACT... He committed so many crimes, lied for years, corrupted for years.. its OVER... time to put the Pathetic Orange man IN PRISON PERMANENTLY.

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