Trump lawyer withdraws from ex-president’s cases

A key defense lawyer for Donald Trump has withdrawn from the former president’s legal team. Joe Tacopina, a highprofileformer Brooklyn prosecutor, had represented Trump in both his criminal hush money case and a sexual battery civil lawsuit brought by longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. The motivation behind Tacopina’s departure was unclear, though he confirmed it...

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