Trump has “no plans” to participate in a Manhattan grand jury’s investigation into his role in hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Leaving open the possibility that Trump could testify at a later date, Tacopina said the “decision still needs to be made. There’s been no deadline set, so we’ll wait and see.”
Trump’s attorney, Susan Necheles, who is leading the case, has met with Manhattan prosecutors, Tacopina said. Tacopina accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his office of having “an agenda” against Trump and claimed the former president was the victim of extortion by Daniels, with whom he has denied having an affair.
Tacopina rejected the notion that the $130,000 payment made to Daniels by Trump’s former personal lawyer and so-called fixer Michael Cohen had anything to do with Trump’s campaign activity, and said the former president “had to pay money” to avoid a “publicly embarrassing” allegation “regardless of the campaign.”
Tacopina said “there [were] absolutely no false records made, to my knowledge,” but federal prosecutors alleged in their 2018 case against Cohen that he was reimbursed by the Trump Organization for the hush-money payments for services falsely specified as retainer fees."It's not a contribution to his campaign," Tacopina said."He made this with personal funds to prevent something coming out false but embarrassing to himself and his family's young son.
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