Trump Lawyer Joe Tacopina Heckled On Live TV After Sex Abuse Verdict

A heckler yelled at Donald Trump's attorney in footage that aired on CNN.
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Donald Trump’s attorney Joe Tacopina was heckled on Tuesday while talking to reporters outside the Manhattan federal courthouse where a jury found the former president liable for the sexual abuse of advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.

“You’re a fucking Neanderthal,” a man repeatedly shouted at Tacopina in footage that aired live on CNN.

“You’re a fucking coward,” the man said, adding: “Fuck you, Tacopina.”

The heckling came after a reporter asked Tacopina about the jury in the civil lawsuit taking just three hours to reach a unanimous verdict. The jury sided with Carroll, who claimed Trump raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s, and said Trump was liable for sex abuse and defamation but not rape. The panel said Trump owes Carroll $5 million in damages.

“Yeah, it was fast,” Tacopina said of the speedy verdict. “I mean, it’s hard to see behind a jury room door. And I don’t know what they were thinking. What it sort of indicates is what people have been saying, which is, in New York, you can’t get a fair trial. And you know, people said, ‘You lost the case when they announced the names of the litigants.’ But again, they found him not liable for the rape.”

Tacopina mostly ignored the heckler until he came to leave.

“OK, I’m going to go now. I have a fan that wants to talk to me over there, so I’m going to go address them,” Tacopina said.

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