At one point, while he was being questioned on a 2021 financial statement, Trump claimed to have been too busy focusing on “China, Russia and keeping our country safe.” The state’s attorney reminded him that he was not president in 2021.
lmao.
It’s like a middle schooler trying to make up an alibi for why they didn’t do their homework.
Antifa ate my homework ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“I beseech you to control him if you can,” [Judge] Engoron said. “If you can’t, I will. I will excuse him and draw every negative inference that I can.”
Ultra-mega-fucked.
Trump attorney Alina Habba at one point stood up and argued that the judge was there to listen to what Trump had to say. “I am not here to listen to what he has to say!” Engoron reportedly shouted, telling Trump’s counsel to sit back down. “We are here to hear him answer questions,” he added.
LMAO at a bottom tier lawyer trying to tell a judge how to do their job.
The problem is that this is a strategy, and it might work. The judge is showing signs of exasperation. The defense is laying the grounds for an appeal based on judicial bias. Viewed in that light, each time the judge interjects out of annoyance or exasperation is citable evidence. It’s funny, but it is also rather dangerous.
I don’t think it’s a strategy, it’s just a happy potential by-product, albeit an unlikely one.
Sure it’s possible that a judge might make mistakes that may form the basis for a successful appeal. Is Engoron more likely to make mistakes because of Trump’s antics? Not necessarily. Most people do their best work under pressure.
Trump’s behavior is focused as always on his supporters. The more he appears to be persecuted the more his supporters will throw money at him - it’s that simple. He’s intentionally pushing the judge as far as he can without crossing the line into actual consequences.
Edit: as an aside the photos of these idiots always makes me think about how much time they’ve spent practicing their facial expressions in a mirror.
I’ll add to that that wasting a judge’s time through non-compliance is a fast track to default judgment. Just ask Alex Jones how that goes.
The right to a speedy trial is a right for the prosecutors, too.
Already got the equivalent of a default judgement - he’s already ruled on the law.
Fucking astounds me how this grifter is pulling numbers…everyone for him is just doing it for spite now…
I’ve definitely seen a lot of backfire effect going on. If you voted for Trump because, for example, you thought that a political outsider would fix everything and you ignored all the bad shit in hopes that it would work out, then it’s hard now to admit that you were wrong. Admitting that Trump sucks is also, for those people, admitting that they were foolish to ever believe in him, which is a difficult and intolerable admission. Better to just ignore evidence and move forward blindly in support.
At least, I’ve seen a lot of that in my mostly purple area where the divide is only getting worse and stronger.
This free book from 1951 about mass movements explains what is going on. They feel their lives are spoiled and maga gives them hope. Logic doesn’t matter.
The True Believer - Eric Hoffer https://www.academia.edu/21464682/The_True_Believer_Eric_Hoffer
You underestimate the electoral power of making rural white folks feel like they can say the N-word without being looked down on as racist trash
These are the rat fuckers who think the president will make their families come back for thanksgiving again even though they have done no work to address that they all left because they tried to force some poor young girl onto cousin Maury with his husband right fucking there.
There was an article yesterday saying that both Trump and his lawyers are specifically trying to piss off the judge, at which point they’ll use it as a point in their appeal. Oh, and his current lawyers have told him that even if the judge does try to their him in jail for contempt, they have strategies to ensure that he doesn’t actually have to spend any time there. :/
the american justice system right now:
At one point he indicated that he had sometimes felt the values assigned to his properties were off, but stated that the discrepancies were both “high and low.”
“Your honor, I’d like to take this opportunity to defend myself by confirming the facts of the case and also that I didn’t listen when you told me what I’m accused of!” - The former POTUS
Sure I’ve punched people, but sometimes I hurt myself so that means I’m innocent of the times I hurt others.
It’s even worse than that: apart from the overvaluing for insurance and other purposes that everyone’s focusing on, he’s also been undervaluing the very same properties to evade taxes, further undercutting both the "honest mistake " and “had no idea” defenses.
