NEW YORK – Former United States President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, assured this Friday that his client will not be handcuffed when he travels to New York next week for a judge to read the accusations filed against him by the US Attorney’s Office. Manhattan and have not yet been made public.
“The president will not be handcuffed,” Tacopina said in a statement on ABC’s Good Morning America.
In his speech, the former president’s lawyer also pointed out that he hopes that the day Trump has to appear, first before the Prosecutor’s Office and later before Judge Juan Manuel Marchan, the security forces close the streets around the courts, located in lower Manhattan and that the courts also close.
Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in a case related to a payment to buy with money from the 2016 presidential election campaign the silence of the porn actress Stormy Daniels, who claims that she had a sexual relationship with the former president in 2006.
The lawyer expressed his desire that he not appear handcuffed, despite the fact that his enemies “want him to be walked around” by security agents.
“They are not going to allow this to become a circus,” he said.
He also stressed that Trump will plead not guilty and that he will immediately file motions “very aggressively against the legal viability of this case.”
The lawyer, who insisted that this case is “unprecedented” in the country’s history, said: “I feel that the rule of law died yesterday in this country.”
He also noted that upon receiving the news, Trump was “at first shocked” because “ultimately, we really wanted the rule of law to prevail.”
According to Tacopina, Trump’s payments to Daniels were made with his own money and not campaign funds.
He also commented that when Trump declared two weeks ago that he expected to be indicted in the following two days, he did so based on “rumors and leaks.”
A lawyer from his team, Suzan R. Nechels, has announced that he will appear next Tuesday and some of his supporters, such as Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, have announced their presence in New York that same day to support him.
Today Trump also criticized the judge in charge of his case, assuring that he “hates” him and that he has actually been chosen by the prosecutors.
In a post on his Truth Social network, Trump once again insisted that he is the victim of a witch hunt, which has been revealed once again in the election of Judge Marchan, who will be the first to see his case and read the charges. in his next appearance, foreseeably next Tuesday.
“The judge ‘assigned’ to my witch-hunt case (…) HATES ME”, he writes in capital letters, recalling that a former president of the country has never been charged before.
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