Trump lawyer demands investigation into Manhattan D.A. as possible indictment looms

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Source: CBS News

An attorney for former President Donald Trump is calling for an investigation into the Manhattan district attorney's office, as prosecutors consider a possible indictment of Trump in connection with a 2016 alleged "hush money" payment to an adult film star.

Joe Tacopina, the Trump attorney, accused Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and his predecessor, Cyrus Vance, and several prosecutors on their staff, of conducting a "politically motivated investigation," in a letter sent Friday to the commissioner of New York City's Department of Investigation.

The prosecutors "weaponized" their office, Tacopina wrote, "scouring every aspect of President Trump's personal life and business affairs, going back decades, in the hopes of finding some legal basis — however far-fetched, novel or convoluted — to prosecute him."

A spokesperson for Bragg declined to comment. Vance did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment.


Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-lawyer-demands-investigation-manhattan-d-a-as-possible-indictment-looms/

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Womp womp.

[C Moon]

2. Why are there so many dumb shit attorneys who think tfg will pay them?

Then again, maybe it's a mob thing.

[Blue Owl]

3. Donny's nervously festering on his toilet, scheming up some new bullshit

[SWBTATTReg]

4. How many times must we all hear the phrase 'weaponized', 'politically motivated', etc.?

[Walleye]

6. Everything Trump does is weaponized and politically motivated

[riversedge]

18. They are the new 'lock her up" chants along with 'witch hunt" Sadly, they are effective.

[bluestarone]

5. This looks like FEAR to me.

They are very WORRIED now! Final day freakout for them.

[Walleye]

7. Yes I smell fear

[pirsquared]

12. no fear, just the standard strategy to delay

This is 100% predictable in Trump's strategy to always delay, delay, challenge then delay some more, as he learned from Roy Kohn. The justice system has let him get away with this for decades. Trump has been very successfuol using this tactic, and Garland has not learned.

(Notice one small feature of this: when a judge gives the parties "30 days to file" replies, the Trump team always files 2 minutes to midnight on the last possible day. It always draws things out for another 2 months.)

[Midnight Writer]

8. "scouring...Trump's...business affairs, going back decades"

When you are digging into a hole to clean out all the BS, you keep digging until you stop finding more BS.

That they had to dig through decades to get to the bottom of all that BS reflects on Trump, not the prosecutor's office.

[ET Awful]

9. Remind me to use this defense if I'm ever under imminent risk of indictment.

It's bound to work, right?

[Achilleaze]

11. It only works for republicans

You would have to abandon all sense of honor, integrity, honesty, and patriotism to quality.

[Warpy]

10. He's freaking out over a misdemeanor

that will likely involve a fine but no jail time. A normal person would plead guilty, pay the fine, and move on. TFG is not normal in any way, so it should be loads of fun to watch.

ETA: this is the Stormy Daniels payoff. The shady business dealings will be brought up later.

[ificandream]

13. Another delaying tactic.

Look for motions of continuance because Donnie has constipation or some such excuse.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. The judge could order a mandatory fire hose enema, but...

there'd be nothing left of Trump when it was finished.

[Ray Bruns]

14. And I demand an investigation into why Santa Claus didn't bring me a pony when I was ten!

[moniss]

20. Santa made the terms of the deal

very clear. Nice gets the pony. Naughty gets nada.

[LudwigPastorius]

15. Trump's lawyer is just throwing anything to see if it'll stick.

The commissioner used to clerk for Rehnquist, so he's hoping she'll be sympathetic.

She's more likely to tell him to go shit in his hat.

[Mz Pip]

16. Who would investigate?

The DA is an elected official in a county office. Bragg can be voted out by the people in Manhattan. Would the House do this? I guess if they can investigate a private citizen like Hunter Biden, they can investigate a county D.A.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. By the "weaponized" DOJ of Joe Biden?

*sniggersniggersnigger*

[SWBTATTReg]

21. I demand that this lawyer be investigated, for making unfounded claims of the Manhattan

DA's office...

[patphil]

22. All these maneuvers end up with the lawyers being sanctioned, or even losing their licences.

Why do they keep putting themselves at risk with this shit?

[tonekat]

23. You know they have nothing...

...when a lawyer like Joey Taco resorts to nonsense.

[Linda Ed]

24. These attorneys will be sorry as

There are so many people who behaved similarly. If for nothing else, I think Liz Cheney will go down in history for this single statement: "There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain."

[LiberalFighter]

25. They need to be sanctioned and disbarred.

[mpcamb]

26. Instead investigate Trump lawyer Tacopina if you're looking for dirt.

[Xandric]

27. he always does that

He gaslights and pretends that whoever is investigating him is somehow guilty of a crime.

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. "If the facts are against you, hammer the law. If the law is against you, hammer the facts. ...

If the fact and the law are against you, hammer opposing counsel."

From 1934, though, not quite so pithily, it dates back to 1911 or before: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/

[Martin68]

29. I love the smell of right wing desperation in the morning.

[Bayard]

30. Of course he did

They have no logical defense.

[2live is 2fly]

31. Okay, if these prosecutors were investigated, we know where it

would all lead. TFG's suck-ups/brown-nosers would find an ADA or staff who once or twice said something negative about him showing they don't like and maybe even despise him (DA's don't like law breakers, DUH, WTF). Then they would follow-up by saying how this proves beyond doubt a strong prejudice against tfg thus the entire investigation was improper and not justified. Finally they would conclude that this proves tfg did nothing wrong but in fact, he did everything (perfectly) right just like both his Ukraine (#1) & Georgia (#2) phone calls. Finally they would conclude that tfg should be honored and awarded a Nobel Prize (redesigned to be bigger & better, more GOLD) than President Obamas' prize) for being such a fine example of a perfect human being. Of course, others would pay for all of it.