Trump’s defense lawyer, Joe Tacopina, appeared on CNN on Sunday and told CNN’s Dana Bash that Trump will, on Tuesday, “loudly and proudly” tell the judge in Manhattan that he is “not guilty.” Watch that here:
As you can hear in the video, Tacopina said, “In theory, it should be like hundreds of other arraignments that I have done in that building over the course of my career…you walk in. You see a judge. You plead not guilty. You set a schedule, and you leave. I honestly don’t know how this is going to go, but hopefully as smoothly as possible.”
Continuing, he added that justice in the United States is dead, which is why he is unsure what will happen. In his words, “And then we begin the battle to right this wrong because it’s a day that in my opinion, the rule of law in the United States has died.”
Regardless of that upsetting background, he then told Bash that Trump would “very loudly and proudly say not guilty” to the judge.
The judge to whom he will be speaking, the DC Enquirer reports, is “Manhattan’s Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, a judge hand picked by far-left District Attorney Alvin Bragg.”
Trump, for his part, announced on Truth Social, “I will be leaving Mar-a-Lago on Monday at 12 noon, heading to Trump Tower in New York. On Tuesday morning I will be going to, believe it or not, the Courthouse. America was not supposed to be this way!”
He also said, “The Corrupt D.A. has no case. What he does have is a venue where it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get a Fair Trial (it must be changed!), and a Trump Hating Judge, hand selected by the Soros backed D.A. (he must be changed!). Also has the DOJ working in the D.A.’s Office – Unprecedented!”
He also bragged that his support has grown in response to the indictment, saying, “I have never had so much support and love as I do now against the Radical Left Insurrectionists, Extortionists, Crooked Politicians and Thugs that are destroying our Country. Thank you, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
On a similar note, he said, “I want to thank everybody for the tremendous support you have given me against this assault on our Nation. Our once beautiful USA is now a Nation in Decline. Radical Left Thugs & Insurrectionists have taken over our Country, & are rapidly destroying it. They are using the levers of Law Enforcement, and have completely Weaponized the FBI & DOJ to Interfere with, Rigg, and Steal our once SACRED ELECTIONS. We are now living in a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, but we will Come Back & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
In another post, he said, “NEW CRIME STATISTICS ARE OUT IN MANHATTAN, THE PLACE REIGNED OVER BY RADICAL LEFT, SOROS BACKED, DISTRICT ATTORNEY—ALVIN BRAGG. THE NUMBERS ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER….BUT, AT LEAST HE CAN TELL HIS TRUMP HATING WIFE AND FRIENDS THAT HE IS GOING AFTER THE VERY SUCCESSFUL 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. MAGA!“
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