Posted on 04/03/2023 9:12:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Donald Trump will not plead guilty or be handcuffed, his attorney Joe Tacopina told ABC’s “Good Morning America” following the news of his indictment.
A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump Thursday on charges related to his payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels, making him the first president in American history to be indicted. “I’m sure they’ll try to get every ounce of publicity they can from this thing,” Tacopina said Monday morning. “The president will not be put in handcuffs.”
“I’m sure they’ll try to get some joy out of this by parading him,” he continued, adding that Secret Service and New York police would not “allow this to become a circus.”
“This is unprecedented in this country’s history,” Tacopina said when asked what to expect by host George Stephanopoulos. “I don’t know what to expect other than an arraignment.”
“I understand that they are going to be closing off blocks around the courthouse,” he continued. “We’ll go in there, and we’ll proceed to see a judge at some point, plead not guilty, start talking about filing motions, which we will do immediately and very aggressively.”
Tacopina also said the former president was initially “shocked” at hearing the news.
“I feel like the rule of law died yesterday in this country, and it’s not something that I’m happy about,” Tacopina said.
Trump’s indictment occurred two weeks after he announced that he expected to be arrested.
“Never before in our Nation’s history has this been done,” Trump said in a statement reacting to the indictment Thursday night. “The Democrats have cheated countless times over the decades, including spying on my campaign, but weaponizing our justice system to punish a political opponent, who just so happens to be a President of the United States and by far the leading Republican candidate for President, has never happened before. Ever.”
Trump would pay to be marched through the front doors, smiling victoriously.
Trump should refuse to go to NY.
Don’t play this game.
Dung Beetle heads are going to be exploding all over the country. A “No Joy” indictment! LOL. Poor babies. All that crying on election night 2016 for nothing. It’s not fair. It’s just not fair. LOL.
The SS should send a Trump double - if you know, I mean the more husky "Trump", we often see if photo-ops.
That “mugshot” is going to be a hot ticket for MAGAmeisters. Like the turd rollers like to say, “wildly popular”. They’ll be impossible to get.
Eff the handcuffs...The damage is done...
Watching his plane taxiing out of Palm Beach now. Horrid. I wonder what’s in the minds of his SS people.
Don’t say that. That’s just giving them the excuse they’ve been wanting to tackle him to the ground, throw a few punches and slap the cuffs on.
Yeah, more votes but still.
To win the war, sometimes you must go to where the enemy lives.
LOL - Oh what Trump wouldn’t give for that to happen imo. Only thing he might not enjoy would be being “hooded”. DT loves his hair imo.
The ‘rape room’ private school bimbos of MSNBC are breathless in their collective hatred of the outsider - Trump. Finally in their element.
You surrender to your enemies to win a war?
You allow them to determine your fate by going into their custody?
Trump ain’t Jesus.
He should flat out refuse to take part in this phony charade and force their hand.
The real stratagem is to provoke anything that could be and will be labeled an “ insurrection” keeping alive the spectre of Jan 6. Which is the new bloody shirt to be waved forever by the virtuous democrats. Eerily similar to post Civil War reconstruction era politics.
I for one only hope Trump has the wisdom to not be sound bite bitten saying anything that sounds like incitement which it wouldn’t be but why fall into the trap?!
He needs to foment calm and assurance to the base that a fair trial will exonerate him. Anything less will be used out of context like his Charlottesville statements.
There I’ve said it. He should think about winning at the ballot box / mailbox and not about blasting unrighteousness.
That city and the putrid disgusting inhabitants who perpetuate this partisan evil should grant them everlasting perdition. A horrible pox on them and all their progeny who they will undoubtedly influence.
Who pleads guilty at an arraignment? LOL!
I don’t even think judges allow it.
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