Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Mr. Trump, did not directly address Mr. Tacopina’s departure, saying only that Mr. Trump “has the most experienced, qualified, disciplined, and overall strongest legal team ever assembled”
Oh yeah, his legal team is fucked
Sounds like a statement from North Korea.
Or this guy
Good old Baghdad Bob!
Last I heard, he was the spokesman for a Turning Point USA chapter. Didn't even have to change his communication style or anything!
Fkn lol, dude was hilarious.
🤣 disciplined
He's not wrong. I've never seen so many lawyers receive so many punishments from so few judges. They are indeed getting disciplined.
They'll be immediately saying it was a bad team that couldn't win an obviously innocent case when he loses
Fun #LIFEHACK!
Remember to just always add the words "does not" or "is not" into these statements if you want the actual truth.
"DOES NOT have the most..."
"IS NOT the most..."
It was not clear why Mr. Tacopina decided to withdraw, and he declined to comment.
Hahahaha! AhhhhhhhhHahahahahahaha! Does anyone think it’s NOT because Trump’s check bounced and he refused to pay what they agreed?
More likely he realized that Donnie is likely to do something that will get him disbarred.
I think it's because Joe thinks sanctions or worse are an imminent possibility, and he doesn't want to throw away his career (any more than he has) on Trump's bullshit.
Probably because trump went off on a rant during closing arguments after his lawyers and the judge toldbhin not to.
Yeah having a client who can't keep his fucking mouth shut in the courtroom, and has their fan-club threaten members of the judicial, etc isn't a great thing
It could also be because he has basic pattern recognition and saw how many of Trumps former lawyers are being convicted of serious crimes.
It could be that he finally found a lawyer who wouldn't break the law for him?
Based on the actual article it sounds like they disagreed in whether Trump should make the closing arguments.
This is why Trump basically has multiple teams of freshman lawyers.
The few experienced lawyers brave enough to take him on quickly find out that he's a giant man-baby who's unable to be controlled or reasoned with (or their hubris makes them think they are one who can), and the greenhorns are too naive to know it's a trap and that they're just fodder for the Trump Grift Machine.
Either way, get fucked Joe. You should have left long ago and kept whatever shred of decency you used to have, instead of letting this rapist continue to abuse his victim.
I suspect it's more about realizing that he won't get paid than anything else. Plenty of lawyers willing to defend the guilty when they're paid to do it
Plenty of lawyers willing to defend the guilty
As they should.
Justice can only be served when the defendant has had the opportunity to have a good defense.
Trump is definitely guilty, and I agree that he deserves a defense, but unfortunately for him, it kind of goes out the window when he doesn't respect the laws and courts that give him that right.
He has the right to a defense, not a good one, and that's exactly what he's getting because of his behavior.
He has the right to a defense, not a good one, and that's exactly what he's getting because of his behavior.
How about, he has a right to the best defense his ego will allow him to have?
I suspect quite a few would represent a former president for free just to have that on their resume, it's being disbarred or named in future lawsuits that's the deal-breaker.
When they think they have a chance to win, and even they can control their client
I think Trump makes his lawyers miserable on purpose, and counts on them to leave now and then. One of his key tactics is delay. And asking for a delay because your old lawyer bailed on you and you have to bring on someone new is reasonable.... Until it's done one too many times.
They should be forced to disclose why they quit and if it's because of non payment then the court should not allow them to delay they should proceed as scheduled.
They have to disclose it to the judge, but I agree that this shouldn't be allowed to delay the trial if the defendant has a history of intentional delay.
Not necessarily. If they withdraw by motion, then certainly, but if successor counsel is in place they usually don't need to.
Ah, that's interesting. Thanks!
Or appoint a public defender
These idiots always work until they try to get paid.
Tacopina declined to say why he was leaving. If he's a competent lawyer then he'd require cash up front. My money is on Trump being stupid with his lawyers again, or he refused to add more funds to his account.
They really should be demanding payment up front. I have always had to pay up front when talk with a lawyer how is he not paying them?
You only pay a certain amount up front. Once that amount is used up, they bill hourly sending invoices once or twice a month. When he doesn't pay that, the attorney quits, and trump has to hire a new (sometimes team of) lawyer who needs time to get up to speed on the case and it can be a delaying tactic as much as lowlife-ness.
Chris Kise did just that, got his $3M up front.
Mr. O'Brien, one and a trombone to beam up.
lol get rekt bitches
Any lawyer who represents Trump should have their head examined. He lies to them, blames them when the lies don't work, and then stiffs them on the bill. It's just stupid to represent him. The really good lawyers already know this and decline representation. The ones who stupidly take his cases get what they deserve.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mr. Tacopina also withdrew on Monday from another case in which he was still legally representing Mr. Trump: an appeal of the verdict in a lawsuit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll.
The trial in Manhattan, in which he is accused of falsifying business records to hide hush-money payments to a porn star during the 2016 election, could begin as early as March.
He has represented high-profile clients ranging from the Fox News host Sean Hannity, who on his show called Mr. Tacopina one of the “greatest defense attorneys of all time,” to the former Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and the rapper A$AP Rocky.
The withdrawals came a day before jury selection is set to begin in a second trial stemming from the allegations brought by Ms. Carroll, who accused Mr. Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.
Mr. Trump last week delivered part of his own closing remarks in the New York attorney general’s civil case, and was rebuked by the judge for going outside the confines of what he was allowed to talk about.
Mr. Rodriguez, in a brief interview, said he could not speak to Mr. Tacopina’s involvement with Mr. Trump, but described his own experience being represented by him as he battled a suspension from Major League Baseball related to steroid use.
The original article contains 767 words, the summary contains 223 words. Saved 71%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News