An attorney for Donald Trump has said the former president’s claim that he would be arrested last week was based on “a lot of leaks coming out of the district attorney’s office” in Manhattan and that he did not make it up.
Attorney Joe Tacopina made the comment on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on March 26 when asked whether Trump had lied about the indictment claim.
“There had been a leak … that Monday, the day before that Tuesday, there was a law enforcement meeting, including Secret Service and NYPD, that was going to go through the logistics of the arraignment. And then there was, of course, a lot of rumors regarding the arraignment being the next day,” Tacopina said. “So he just, I think he just assumed based on those leaks that that’s what was going to happen.”…