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NY Post
New York Post
5 Apr 2023


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

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.

“So it was a little disappointing — a little bit of a relief, quite frankly, to see that indictment,” the firebrand attorney said.

He trashed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s claim that the decision to charge was based on new evidence not seen by all the other authorities who did not to bring charges against the 45th president.

“There is no evidence — that’s spin,” Tacopina said.

“There’s no new evidence — this is just rehashing a zombie case.”

The case is so weak, in fact, Trump’s legal team is confident it will never make it to trial, Tacopina said.

“After seeing that indictment … I don’t think we’re getting close to a jury,” he said.

“I think this case is going to fall on … legal challenges well before we get to a jury,” he said.

Even if it does, he said that even those “politically opposed to Donald Trump are going to see this for what it is — it’s weaponization of the legal system,” he said.

“It’s something that this country never did before [and] hopefully we’ll never do again.”