A lawyer for Donald Trump says his legal team will not file a motion to dismiss the indictment against the former president at his arraignment in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Joe Tacopina said filing a motion to dismiss or doing any action before they have seen the charges, related to an alleged hush money payment in 2016, would be"showmanship," while speaking on CNN's State of the Union."No, we’re not doing anything at the arraignment because that would be showmanship and nothing more because we haven’t even seen the indictment yet. You know, we will take the indictment. We will dissect it.
Tacopina also said he has no reason to believe the judge in the case is biased, citing how he has never been before this judge, but says Trump has"a right to have an issue with everything" regarding the case.
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