Donald Trump simply employed one of many nation’s high trial attorneys, Joe Tacopina, to go after a former Manhattan prosecutor for allegedly defaming him, TMZ has discovered.
In his first order of biz as 45’s new authorized eagle, Tacopina fired off a letter Monday to lawyer Mark Pomerantz, claiming Pomerantz falsely acknowledged Trump was “responsible of quite a few felony violations” and that it was a “grave failure of justice to not maintain [Trump] accountable by the use of felony prosecution.”
Pomerantz’s statements appeared in his 2022 resignation letter to Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, which Tacopina says was later leaked to the New York Times.
In his letter, Tacopina’s significantly incensed Pomerantz is about to publish a ebook, “The People vs. Donald Trump,” which, Joe believes, will include much more libelous remarks about DT.
That’s why Tacopina’s issuing a authorized risk to Pomerantz, writing … “I strongly admonish you to take these subsequent phrases critically: If you publish such a ebook and proceed making defamatory statements towards my shopper, my workplace will aggressively pursue all authorized cures towards you and your ebook writer, Simon & Schuster.”
Tacopina added, “Trust me, I’ll zealously use each potential authorized useful resource to punish you and your writer for the unbelievable monetary hurt that you’ve brought on my purchasers to undergo.”
As we reported, the Manhattan D.A. has carried out an ongoing 2-year probe into the Trump Organization’s enterprise practices.
Pomerantz was one of many senior prosecutors on the case earlier than he resigned, allegedly after Bragg would not let him pursue a felony indictment towards Trump.
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So far, Bragg’s investigation has led to the latest conviction of Allen Weisselberg, former CFO of the Trump Organization who pled responsible and was sentenced to five months behind bars for varied monetary crimes.
Bragg has expressed concern Pomerantz’s upcoming ebook may derail his investigation into the forty fifth president, who introduced his 2024 run for the White House in November. Tacopina says within the letter Trump is main all potential candidates in the newest polls.
We’ve reached out to Pomerantz for remark … to this point no phrase again.
