A top attorney on Donald Trump's legal team on Monday withdrew from two of the former president's unfolding trials in Manhattan, The New York Times reported.
Joe Tacopina, a lawyer known for handling high-profile cases, bowed out of Trump's criminal trial in which he stands accused of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the final stretch of the 2016 presidential campaign. The lawyer also departed from the case in which writer E. Jean Carroll is appealing the verdict in a lawsuit she brought against the ex-president after he was already ordered to pay her $5 million when a jury in May found him liable of sexually abusing and defaming her.
