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A key attorney on Donald Trump’s legal team has withdrawn from two New York Court cases, one a criminal trial tied to porn star hush money accusations and the second a civil defamation trial appeal, a new report shows.
Joseph Tacopina will no longer represent the former president in the falsified business records case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, tentatively slated to begin in March, according to the New York Times report.
The former president’s spokesperson Steven Cheung did not address Tacopina’s departure in a statement he provided to the Times, but reportedly said Trump had “the most experienced, qualified, disciplined, and overall strongest legal team ever assembled.”
The reason for Tacopina’s withdrawal was not immediately clear.
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The high-profile attorney has also represented Fox News host Sean Hannity, the former Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and the rapper A$AP Rocky, the Times notes.
Todd Blanche also represents Trump in this case, one of four Trump faces in 2024. Bragg has accused Trump of hiding hush-money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election.
The former president, and leading conservative candidate at the outset of 2024, pleaded not guilty.
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s social media take on climate change has left her social media commenters as cold as caucus day in Iowa.
The Colorado Republican was met with virtual eye-rolls Monday after she took to X to share her views on how weather works.
“You’ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protestors trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to yell about how the planet is warming,” Boerbert posted late Sunday.
On Monday, the responses were biting.
“It's called weather,” replied Mike Morton. “You know, like these record-breaking temperatures in Colorado last year. I'm sure your constituents remember.”
Morton did not specify to which constituents he referred. Boebert announced last year she’ll be ditching District 3 in the upcoming election and now hopes to represent in District 4 in another part of the state.
“I hope this helps,” replied Scott Santens, who shared with Boebert a chart explaining the relationship between climate change and extreme weather.
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“Just so you know,” Santens added, “when someone plays peekaboo with you, they aren't actually disappearing.”
Boebert recently saw her family life make headlines when her ex-husband accused her of punching him in the face at a restaurant, only to find himself arrested on assault charges and his ex cleared.
The story made national headlines only a few months after footage of Boebert vaping and groping at, and being ejected from, Beetlejuice the musical went viral.
“Thank God you're too important to have to vape outside in this,” replied @NoVanessa.
Added JHugs, "You have to appreciate the irony that you have a job as US Representative."
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell argued that Fox News refuses to air his advertisements because he hired former employee Lou Dobbs.
Last week, Lindell said Fox News had "canceled" his ads and admitted that he owes the company $7.8 million.
"As soon as their account is paid, we would be happy to accept their advertising," a Fox News spokesperson told Raw Story Friday.
"It has nothing to do with paying bills," Lindell insisted to Steve Bannon on Monday. "And I actually have been reaching out to Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox. I'll be reaching out to her today to find out what this is all about."
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"I'm getting reports from my media buyers that they offered money on Wednesday to actually test one of our new ads," he continued. "And that's when we found out we were shut down, and so it has nothing to do with money. We're well within our credit limits there."
Instead, Lindell offered an alternate theory to explain his dispute with Fox News.
"I believe it's because we brought Lou Dobbs over to Lindell TV, and that happened on a Monday," he speculated. "This happened on a Wednesday. We have the great lineup over at Lindell TV, and his first interview was Donald Trump."
Watch the video below from Real America's Voice.
The White House on Monday was the target of a "swatting"-style event in which a caller dialed 911 and falsely claimed that there was a fire in the building and that someone was trapped inside.
NBC News reports that the call was made early on Monday morning, which resulted in multiple units from the District of Columbia's Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department responding to the scene.
After responding to the scene, officials determined that the call had been a false alarm, and a spokesperson for the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department said that the call was "in the same spirit" as "swatting" events where a prankster makes a false claim about an emergency taking place at a victim's address to get a SWAT team to show up at their house.
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President Joe Biden was not in the White House when the call was made but was instead at Camp David.
As of noon Monday, police say they have no idea who placed the call.
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