Trump Lawyers Rip Colleague For Being "Dumb," "Loudmouth"

Donald Trump hasn’t surrendered yet. But his lawyers are already fighting — among themselves.

Photo Insert: Tacopina is no stranger to made-for-tabloid drama, securing high-profile clients, such as Meek Mill and baseball legend Alex Rodriguez, as well as securing hard-to-land wins.

Days after the ex-president’s indictment by Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg, Trump’s lawyers are taking aim at Joe Tacopina, co-lead defense attorney in the Bragg case, Victoria Bekiempis, Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng reported for Rolling Stone.

Sources close to Trump tell Rolling Stone that a number of Trump’s lawyers have privately described Tacopina as “dumb” and a “loudmouth.”

Tacopina is no stranger to made-for-tabloid drama, securing high-profile clients, such as Meek Mill and baseball legend Alex Rodriguez, as well as securing hard-to-land wins.

But he’s also had some equally high-profile flameouts, including an acrimonious parting with his ex-client, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik. In recent days, as a Trump attorney, Tacopina has also become a more and more familiar face on cable television — and not always to the ex-president’s benefit.

During a recent appearance on Ari Melber’s The Beat, for example, Tacopina tried to grab a piece of paper held by the MSNBC host during the heated exchange.

He also defended Trump’s denial of paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair, albeit in a somewhat unique way: Insisting that the denial wasn’t a lie as it wasn’t made under oath.

“A lie to me is something material, under oath, in a proceeding,” Tacopina said.

Worse, five years before Tacopina represented Trump, he said on CNN that, if the facts in the hush money scandal were as Daniels described, the alleged payoff could be considered an in-kind campaign contribution, meaning it would have needed to be disclosed on campaign finance forms, which it was not.

This omission could well be at the crux of Bragg’s attempt to get Trump on a felony charge.

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