The $130,000 payment to Daniels came in the dying days of the 2016 presidential election as the adult film star was about to go public with allegations of a sexual encounter with Trump which he has denied. “This had nothing to do with campaign finance.” “This was a personal civil settlement that’s done every day in New York City,” Tacopina said. The lawyer denounced the Manhattan prosecution as being politically motivated and said that his client was being unfairly hounded for having made a personal payment to protect his family from Daniels’ false claims of an affair. In his Meet the Press interview, Tacopina declined either to defend or condemn Trump’s rhetoric, insisting he was a lawyer – not a “social media consultant”. The event was located – some say strategically – in Waco, Texas, scene of the 1993 siege between law enforcement and the Branch Davidians cult in which 76 people died. On Saturday night he devoted much of the first big rally of his 2024 campaign to raging against “prosecutorial misconduct by radical left maniacs”. He has been furiously fundraising on the back of what he has called the “witch-hunt” against him, bombarding his supporters with a blitzkrieg of begging emails. Trump has placed the Manhattan case at the front and centre of his 2024 presidential bid. While no charges were brought last week, the grand jury could reconvene Monday with an arraignment possible as early as the end of the day. The Daniels hush money case appears to be the most advanced of the multiple legal threats currently bearing down on Trump. So I think he just assumed, based on those leaks, that was what was going to happen.” “And then there was of course a lot of rumours regarding the arraignment being the next day. “He didn’t make it up, he was reacting to a lot of leaks coming out of the district attorney’s office,” Tacopina said. Speaking on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, he denied that Trump had invented the claim that he was facing imminent arrest only to reveal the flimsy basis of the remarks. Now Trump’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, has admitted that his client ignited the firestorm based on nothing more than conjecture.
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