Former President Trump won’t make his own closing argument in his New York civil business fraud trial after his lawyers objected to the judge’s insistence that the former president would stick to “relevant” matters.
Poor Donald. The judge won't allow him to rant about how unfair everything is, so instead he's going to sit at his table and pout. Poor baby.
Trump is, and always has been, a loser when he has to play by the rules.
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What an A-hole he is…
If his lawyers have a lick of sense, they'll keep him out of the courtoom during closing arguments. If he's there, he'll end up shooting his mouth off and getting cited for contempt.
Made myself laugh imagining him give this speech:
"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
Somehow cannot imagine him channeling Solomon Burke - or anyone else showing compassion for imprisoned people (other than his own J6 "hostages").
The judge did Trump a favor.
This will be spun as Trump not being allowed to speak in his own defense, proving the unfairness of the trial. Of course, if he was allowed to speak without rules he would have made a campaign speech/rant that could have gone on for a very long time. He seems to be in a very dark mood lately, and if he somehow becomes President again his thirst for revenge will be the main feature of his dictatorship. Scary times.
"... his thirst for revenge will be the main feature of his dictatorship"
In general, No.
He will want to ensure that in four years time nobody can run against him and also that he can ignore the term limit, and that will require doing much more damage than taking revenge.
Obviously, the specific people that may be the target of the revenge will see it differently.
People who see what happens to Trump’s targets will be less inclined to oppose him.
he'll just have walt nauta drag a big beautiful cross to the courthouse steps and claim he's totally innocent and only being crucified by the left because he loves jesus
Will Walt bring a hammer and nails? Then we (someone) could actually nail the orange blob to a cross. Just to prove he was right. In the name truth, justice and the American way,
Trump looks a lot older than he did a few years ago. His little airplane looks like it is brushing the treetops occasionally.
With luck, this trend will accelerate.
How do you explain Donald Trump's hold on his followers?
The pantomime horse's ass gets all the farts.
Well, everybody pretty much knows what he'd say. At great length, repeated over and over and over, and then some more. 2020. Stolen election. Treated worse than any other human in all of history. Wah, wah, wah. Blood and destruction in the streets if he doesn't win. Because he will. Violence like you've never seen. And then his enemies had better run. He'll be the vengeance president.
And so it would go, until the bailiffs escorted him away. He doesn't seem to have any other words anymore. Anybody else making threats like that would, at the very least, get a private interview with law enforcement.
But maybe he is above the law.
When I read that he was going to make a closing statement, I suspected that this announcement was just for his base and for the news cycle. I assumed that he wasn't going to do it and the only question was how he was going to excuse his planned no-show. Now we know.
Yeah. People who know how this works say defendants never get this kind of chance to filibuster (or just bluster, in his case). They can only do a closing if they're being their own lawyers, and in that case they have to stay in bounds, confine themselves to the evidence, follow all kinds of rules-- all the stuff trump is so good at (/s). What's amazing is that the judge even gave this a second's consideration, if in fact he/she did.
If trump wanted to speak up for himself in court he could have testified. That was always an option. But then he'd have been subject to cross-exam and been slapped down every time he bloviated away from the confines of the question. Plus all those times he'd have to plead the 5th to avoid adding to criminal exposure. Not such a good idea.
So I think this was always about manufacturing a grievance-- of course phony-- and pumping more hot air into the outrage balloon.
Waa, waaa. I don't own a tee vee but I was going to surf the web to watch t-Rump get free political coverage. I had a schedule all set to sit this one out. Oh well.
Sit at his table and pout STRONGLY
...after his lawyers objected to the judge’s insistence that the former president would stick to “relevant” matters.
This isn't even correct reporting of what transpired, is it? It's my understanding that Judge Engoron presented his conditions for Trump's closing argument with a deadline, and when there was no timely response from Trump's lawyers, the judge announced the denial based on the assumption that Trump didn't agree to the terms.
Kise did argue, a bit. This is reported on Alternet.
"That is very unfair, your Honor," Kise responded. "You are not allowing President Trump, who has been wrongfully demeaned and belittled by an out of control, politically motivated Attorney General, to speak about the things that must be spoken about."
Thanks for clarifying. I had missed the email exchange.
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