But Dagopina, speaking to ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday with George Stephanopoulos, shrugged off the criticism. “Do I think the judge is biased? Of course not,” Tacobina said. “How can I subscribe to the judge when I have no relationship with him and he makes me believe he’s biased?”
When pressed as to why his client would say otherwise, Tacobina said, “You’re interviewing me, George, aren’t you?” And, “I am his lawyer, but I am myself. I’m not his PR person. I am not a speaker. He’s entitled to his own opinion, what he’s done, and frankly, I don’t blame him for feeling the way he does.
Trump is expected to appear before Mercen on Tuesday. His indictment remains under seal, meaning the specific charges are unknown. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Brock is investigating payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election to prevent her from publicly discussing a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump years ago.
Tacobina On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday afternoon, when Trump makes his first court appearance, “we will be saying ‘not guilty,’ very loud and proud,” the Washington Post reported Friday. New York on Monday before surrendering ahead of Tuesday’s hearing. Trump’s 2024 campaign announced that he will speak from his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, on Sunday after 8 p.m. Eastern.
Republicans on Sunday echoed Trump’s attack on the legal system, calling the indictment an unprecedented attack on a political leader. legally Or even Body Retaliate. The heightened rhetoric came as a former district attorney warned Sunday that Trump’s public statements and social media posts could lead to more serious charges than the one he now faces.
“I would be careful not to commit some other criminal offense, such as obstruction of government,” said former Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance told NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “And I think it can take what we think is not a strong case, and when you add a count like that and put it in front of a jury, it can change the jury’s mind about the seriousness of the case they’re looking for. At.”
Speaking on CNN, Tacobina said there was no evidence Trump falsified business records, and he called Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen a “pathological convicted liar.” Vance, who began a review of the case when he was district attorney, appeared to defend Cohen’s credibility: “We often find that the witnesses involved in criminal cases are not necessarily priests or nuns,” he told “Meet the Press.”
“They are who they are and whatever organization they have,” Vance said.
James M. The attorney representing Trump in a federal lawsuit over the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago by a trustee and a Georgia lawsuit alleging interference with the state’s 2020 vote count called Trump’s indictment in Manhattan “political harassment.”
Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” the trustee said that “typically” in Trump’s cases, prosecutors “legally push the envelope because they decide to target one man, rather than actually following the evidence.” The trustee also warned, “If we let the genie out of the bottle with this new type of litigation, it’s not going to go back on its own. It’s going to be a problem for generations.”
As Republican lawmakers appeared on talk shows Sunday to defend Trump from “politically motivated” charges in Manhattan, Trump’s former attorney general offered some advice, should Trump’s case go to trial: The famously outspoken former president should not testify. In his own defense.
William P., who abruptly resigned from the Justice Department a month before Trump left office after publicly denying fraud in the 2020 election. Barr told “Fox News Sunday” that calling Trump a witness was “a particularly bad idea.” Because Trump lacks all self-control, it will be very difficult to prepare him and testify sanely.
