Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, is promising that several motions to dismiss the case against him are coming.
On Tuesday, Trump was charged with 34 counts of business fraud related to alleged 2016 hush money payments. The former president pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
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While speaking on Fox News’s Hannity, Tacopina insisted the case would not make it to a jury trial.
“A motion to dismiss is coming on several grounds, including prosecutorial misconduct, selective prosecution will for sure be two of them. Legal insufficiency is another one, but we have a clear case of selective prosecution,” Tacopina said. “We’re looking at statute of limitations — a whole host of motions that’s going to be levied here. And I will tell you this: This case won’t see a jury, in my opinion.”
Tacopina referenced a video of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg making a campaign promise of holding Trump “accountable” when asked if he would “convict” the former president.
“I assure you [the video] will be part of our motion to dismiss. We’ll cite that commercial when he’s asked about going after Donald Trump. The question was not even an articulate question. It was, ‘Are you going to convict Donald Trump?’ Well, before we get to the conviction, we have to get to the investigation, the charges, and then the conviction. But we went right to the conviction. And Alvin Bragg didn’t correct him. He said, ‘That’s priority, or issue number one.’ Really?”
The indictment was made public following Trump’s arraignment. Tacopina said the language of the indictment was vague and that it inferred a connection to federal campaign election laws.
“This indictment was a disappointment in one regard,” Tacopina added. “In another regard, it was a relief. I just don’t know how that square peg fits into that round hole.”
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Trump is not expected in court again until December.
The judge presiding over the case warned the former president to refrain from using rhetoric that could spark civil unrest. A gag order, however, was not placed on Trump.
