Joe Tacopino (2023) Should Talk To Joe Tacopino (2018)
Trump's newest attorney, a lawyer who seems to be cut right out of a mobster movie, appears to have completely flip flopped on his views regarding whether Trump actually committed a crime related to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. In the above clip from 2018, Joe Tacopino went on CNN and actually said:
"Everything is fair game...and it is hard to argue, you can't look at this, you can't look at that. So yes, if there is an issue with that payment to Stormy Daniels being that it was made behalf on the candidate and it was not declared, that's fair game, unfortunately, if that's the case.
Quite frankly, Michael Cohen has made statements that would give rise to suspicion for any prosecutor to say that doesn't make sense, that a lawyer took out a home equity loan with his own money, paid somebody he didn't know, on behalf of a client who, by the way, had the where-with-all and all the money to pay $130,000 and by the way, didn't tell the client about this settlement agreement.
It's an illegal agreement, it's fraud, if that's in fact the case."
OH REALLY?