Donald Trump has chosen Joe Tacopina, the president of SPAL, an Italian Serie B club, to defend in the Stormy Daniels case. Trump was formally charged in the case of paying off porn actress Stormy Daniels at the end of the 2016 presidential campaign for keeping quiet about an alleged affair between the two in 2006. — The President of the United States faces criminal prosecution.
The Italian-American is a longtime friend of Trump, and his career has also been marked by controversy and cases. In addition to being the head of four Italian clubs, as mentioned by Forbes in a 2022 article, he also published, for example, an article on the website of the American magazine GQ called “1-800-Salva-Meu-C”. *”, where he privately advertised his legal services.
As for the case he will be defending, Takopina, who will head Trump’s legal team, says he is “angry.” “I have never been so angry about an accusation, today the rule of law in the United States of America is dead. This is something I never thought I would see. I get goosebumps when I say this, I feel bad,” he told Fox News.