Joe Tacopina risks being disqualified as Trump's defense lawyer because Stormy Daniels considered hiring him 5 years ago, experts say

Wed, 03/22/2023 - 16:42

Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels are shown in black and white above a red background. Their faces are broken into pieces and collaged with yellow paper elements. — A Manhattan grand jury is thought to be almost finished with its work investigating hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Donald Trump.
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Stormy Daniels reached out to Joe Tacopina's law firm in 2018 asking if he would represent her.
Now Tacopina represents Donald Trump in a potential criminal case over payments to Daniels.
Depending on what Daniels told Tacopina, he could be disqualified in the case, experts say.

In March 2018, attorney Joe Tacopina went on CNN to talk about lawsuits surrounding payments that Michael Cohen made to Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress who maintained she had an affair with then-President Donald Trump.