Messages between Trump attorney and Stormy Daniels handed to Manhattan DA
23.03.2023 - 11:27
/ msn.com
Trump’s attorney and Stormy Daniels have been handed over to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office – as the office prepares to potentially indict the former president on criminal charges. Ms Daniels’ attorney Clark Brewster told CNN that the records between the adult film star and Mr Trump’s personal attorney Joe Tacopina date back to when she was seeking legal representation in 2018. Mr Brewster said that the messages reveal that Ms Daniels had disclosed confidential information to Mr Tacopina about her situation involving the former president.
Neither The Independent nor CNN have seen the communications in question. However, the revelation has raised questions as to whether the attorney could be sidelined from his defence of Mr Trump in the hush money case. Back in 2018, Mr Tacopina appeared on CNN and suggested he had been in communications with Ms Daniels about representing her in the hush money probe.
“I can’t really talk about my impressions or any conversations we’d had because there is an attorney-client privilege that attaches even to a consultation,” he said. Mr Tacopina has denied there is any conflict in the case. In a statement to The Independent on Wednesday, Mr Tacopina insisted that there “was no attorney-client relationship” and that he had never met or spoken with Ms Daniels.
“There is no conflict, and there was no attorney-client relationship. I neither met Stormy Daniels nor reviewed her documents. Instead, someone inquired on her behalf if I would represent her, and of course I refused the request,” he said.
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