Donald Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina said he doesn’t believe the Manhattan District Attorney’s office’s case against the former president will make it to a jury.
“This case is going to fall on its merits, on legal challenges, well before we get to a jury, if we get to a jury,” Tacopina told NBC’s “Today” show on Wednesday morning, coming hours after Trump was indicted for 34 counts of falsifying business records. Trump pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Previously, Tacopina said his team would file motions to dismiss the case in the coming days. In an interview with CNN before the indictment was unsealed, the lawyer said that “there’s no law that fits this,” adding that DA Alvin Bragg is overstepping his authority by trying to charge a federal election crime as a local prosecutor….