Bragg drag

Grand jury proceedings are confidential, and it is not known whether the group impaneled in January will vote to indict Trump. If it does, the criminal case will mark the first against a former president in American history.

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Trump will not refuse to surrender if the Manhattan district attorney criminally indicts him, his lawyer told the Daily News Friday.

“There won’t be a standoff at Mar-a-Lago with Secret Service and the Manhattan DA’s office,” Joe Tacopina said.

  NY Daily News

In fact, he'll play it to the hilt.

“Most people would collapse under the weight of this,” Tacopina told The News. “He seems to turn everything into a positive and everything into a boost for his campaign, so I’m sure this will just join that long list of things that people think no one could overcome, but he will.”

He's Superman.

DA staffers met with members of the NYPD’s intelligence bureau on Thursday for a preliminary meeting to address security concerns ahead of the possible indictment, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting who asked to remain anonymous.

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If Trump is charged, he must surrender to New York authorities and appear in court to enter a plea to the charges.

Not guilty?

And speaking of Joe Tacopina...

In a Friday afternoon tweet, Ryan Goodman, a former special counsel with the Department of Defense, noted that Trump attorney Joe Tacopina had previously admitted on national television to having a prior attorney-client relationship with Daniels, and, therefore, attorney-client privilege.

"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 told CNN's Don Lemon in a 2018 interview.

Under New York State ethics law, lawyers are forbidden from sharing any details of conversations relating to a client's case, even if they ultimately decline to represent them. In this instance, Tacopina could allegedly use insight from meetings he admitted they'd had to help bolster his new client's case against her in what observers call a clear violation of New York's ethics laws.

"If an attorney had even preliminary but protected communications with Ms. Daniels about the Trump payment matter, that attorney would very likely have a conflict of interest in later representing Trump in the same matter or involving the same issues," former federal prosecutor Michael McAuliffe told Newsweek.

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A representative with Tacopina's law firm contested the claims, insisting that Tacopina never met with Daniels.

"There is no conflict, and there was no attorney-client relationship," the representative said in an emailed statement to Newsweek. "Joe neither met Stormy Daniels nor reviewed her documents. Instead, someone inquired on her behalf if Joe would represent her, and he of course refused the request."

  Newsweek

Absolutely everything around Trump is a tangled mess of shit.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 03/18/2023:

They won't.  They like him.  And even if they didn't, I can't imagine the Secret Service - or anyone - ever putting a president in handcuffs.  I'm surprised anyone is even considering indicting one on anything.

Also, remember, he'll have a Secret Service detail with him wherever he goes, including during an arrest.  I assume even if he were ever jailed, he'd have a detail standing by.

UPDATE 03/21/2023:  Oh my.

Another excuse for delay while Trump gets a new lawyer.