Joe Tacopina, the intimidating attorney tasked with defending his latest client against E. Jean Carroll.
pointing a gun at a former friend and firing in his direction. That last one netted him an invite to the Super Bowl, where the rapper’s wife, Rihanna, played the halftime show. “The best part about that was I had dinner with three people the night before the Super Bowl,” Tacopina said. “Rocky, Rihanna, and Rocky’s mom at their house. And the baby.”
His most nationally prominent case before Trump was the public campaign in 2017 to overturn rapper Meek Mill’s years-long prison sentence for violating parole for a decade-old misdemeanor. On TV, Tacopina condemned both an unjust probation system for putting his client in prison and the judge in the case, who. After four months in prison, Mill was released, and the judge has since been reassigned to civil court.
“I’ve dealt with a lot of attorneys over the last four decades, and he has a distinct kind of bulldoggedness about him,” says the Reverend Al Sharpton, whom Tacopina recruited into the effort to free Mill. “There’s no doubt in my mind Meek Mill would have got a lot more time if it wasn’t for Joe.” Tacopina remembers the case fondly: On his desk is a picture of him and Mill speaking with Sharpton on MSNBC as well as a National Action Network award given to him by the reverend.
As he dives into the Trump case, Tacopina faces a significant challenge: picking up a defense weeks before trial for a client who trails chaos in his wake and isn’t exactly known as a sympathetic figure for a Manhattan jury. “This is not a little case,” Tacopina said. The defense would likely consist of two elements. First, Carroll’s allegation, whilein conversations she had with two friends at the time, was made over 20 years after the alleged assault took place.
Working against Tacopina is that Trump is being tried in civil court, where there is a lower burden of proof for a jury to find him liable: a standard of a “preponderance of evidence” compared with the much higher reasonable-doubt standard in criminal cases. And if Trump does testify — marking the first time he would take the stand since being elected president — pleading the Fifth Amendment would go only so far.
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