Joe Tacopina accused Daniels of acting in bad faith over allegations she was paid hush money to keep quiet about her alleged sexual relationship with Trump.
to denounce Daniels' claims and attempted to paint his client as an"extortion victim."
"There's no crime here. The only potential crime here, Mark, is that Donald Trump was an extortion victim. When someone says 'give me money, or I'm gonna tell a nasty story about you,' whether true or not, that's absolutely irrelevant to the equation, 'I'm gonna tell a story to the press, I'm gonna embarrass you to your family, unless you give me money'.
He added:"That's extortion 101. How she's not being looked at as someone who was a bad actor is beyond me. But yet Donald Trump is the victim of extortion. For the first time in this country's history in a most novel, novel, untested legal theory, of prosecution is being subject to a grand jury investigation.Trump attorney: The only potential crime here is that Trump was an extortion victim.
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