'None of us wanted to work with him': Trump lawyer dishes dirt on attorney who left team

Donald Trump's now-former attorney Joe Tacopina had a bad reputation among his colleagues, according to former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore.

Parlatore on Tuesday appeared on MSNBC's The Beat With Ari Melber, where he was asked what he thinks of Tacopina leaving Trump's legal team. Melber asked Palatore if the development leaves the team weaker, stronger, or with no real difference.

"In many ways no difference. I mean, he's essentially been on the shelf ever since he screwed up the first E. Jean Carroll case. He is -- I mean, he's very good at self-publicity, but not actually very good in the courtroom, and I think that that's something that we all saw during the Jean Carroll case," Parlatore said. "It's something I warned them repeatedly do not bring this guy in at all, and it's something that none of other lawyers -- none of us wanted to work with him. So he went and he did the Jean Carroll case. He mishandled it, in my opinion. He was put on the shelf and then they kind of left him there for several months."

Asked who he told not to bring on Tacopina, Palatore said he told Trump associate Boris Epshteyn.

"I told Boris Epshteyn that this is not the guy for the case. What happened beyond that, did Boris keep it to himself? I have no clue," Parlatore said.

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He also said Tacopina did not do a great job in that case.

"I think he barely cross-examined Jean Carroll. He didn't call the witnesses that they had prepared and obviously he was put in a bad position because they didn't really do much, you know, good work in the discovery of that case."

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