Voluntarily passing up an opportunity to lie, bloviate, ax-grind, spleen-vent and obfuscate before a national audience? To play (paper-thin) ‘tough guy’ before his degenerate maga-head cult crowd?
Something’s really off here…
He must be in really deep doo-doo if he actually starts listening to his lawyers.
He may lose a lot of his hotels and maybe even Maralago over this, he’s nervous and going to get even more crazy talking soon.
My bet:
He’ll come out and say that “they won’t even let me take the stand at my own trial, rigged!”
If he loses the trial, he’ll blame the lawyer that didn’t want him to testify, and claim they were part of the deep state.
It’s also extremely disheartening that I had to say, “If he loses” and that I have no faith in our justice system anymore.
He already lost. Summary judgement at the outset. At this point, it’s just about how badly he lost. And Engoron does not appear to be a fan of his behavior.
My bet is he and his lawyers will find ways to appeal all of his current trials until the day he dies so he will never actually feel any punishment.
I assume that’s actually the plan
Nah, he can do that outside on the courtroom steps without even risking perjury charges.
Testifying is under oath, so bloviating like he does can result in actual consequences.
That’s my guess, anyway.
As he already learned in other defamation cases, you don’t have to be under oath to say things that will cost you a lot of money. But when you’re under oath, the potential consequences are larger.
What, like he gets sent to prison and has to dictate “My Fight” to a fellow prisoner?
He’d constantly be on the phone to news max, Fox, and Oann. No need to bother with an incoherent book.
Guess someone convinced him that he will wind up being charged with perjury in nearly record time. He lies about easily verifiable things. He’d be screwed.
He already testified and lied, my guess is they convinced him to not make it worse.
How has he not been charged with perjury??
Because the courts don’t work like that for people with influence.
Don’t over-complicate the current case. Once this one is settled and all appeals have been played out THEN he can face new perjury charges.
He may yet still. These things take time.
They need to stop trying to screw him, and screw him.
His team is obviously trying not to let him make more of an ass of himself. This is usually the turn in a trial where the defense starts sniffing out a deal, but I see zero chance of that being agreed upon by the protectors here. They know they’re destroying the defense and will refuse to compromise. I also doubt Trump’s narcissism would allow him to admit any kind of guilt.
No chance for a deal in a bench trial.
Sure there are. You can have a plea agreement at any time, but it is at the judges discretion in either case. The venue doesn’t matter. I just don’t the prosecution bothering to compromise because they’ve an airtight case.
The Judge has already stipulated there was fraud. This bench trial is too establish the amount of the penalty. The prosecutor’s ask is a minimum of $250 million, but the judge can move that number anywhere he wants. There is no deal available. His guilt is already stipulated
Eh, they’ve already established fraud, but there are like 6 other charges that haven’t been decided yet. This trial is for the other charges plus the fines. Which will be appealed on every possible level.
Totally not true.
Since the judge already stipulated that the fraud was committed, what will deal be about?
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Stipulating to things means an agreement by the parties.
No. He stipulated to a fact of fraud.
Good news though. You are qualified to be Trumps lawyer. Sorry about the paycheck.
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Bwhahahahaha
Im just saying deal or no deal has nothing to do with it being a bench trial
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His team is obviously trying not to let him make more of an ass of himself.
Sadly, that’s probably the truth. Would have been nice to see him jumping into the “I blatantly lied under oath” pool at full speed.
This is really bad. Think af all the tanking popcorn futures…
Awwww but there’s so much rope!
puts popcorn kernels back into cupboard
Save yourself the extra seconds and keep 'em out, it’ll be delayed like 5mins at most
He’ll probably just hold a rally in front of the court and “recommend” his insurrection-loving fans to “visit” the court and “see for themselves how corrupt the court is” or something.
Just have some blog post about how much of a weakling, pussilanimous and pathetic loser he is for not testifying. I hear he likes that sort of stuff. All the tough guy stuff and he just folds over when it gets rough.
I like my presidents with some spine, thanks.
Aww come on, it would have been so funny to hear him bumble on while incriminating himself
incriminating himselfsaying things that he won’t ever be held responsible for, because of our broken, corrupt legal systemFTFY
I was really looking forward to the limitless meme material that was sure to come from his testimony.
Shit-for-brains’ lawyers must have finally gotten it through his thick skull that the moron wouldn’t be able to help but incriminate himself in a host of other crimes if he testified.
Shocked! How does such a powerful and successfull defendant powerfully + successfully defend their indefensibles and unsuccesses
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In an eleventh-hour reversal, former President Donald Trump announced Sunday he will not go back on the witness stand in the $250 million civil fraud trial against him and his company.
Trump had been expected to tout his company’s success and push back on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ claims that he vastly overvalued his properties and his net worth in financial statements that he used to get favorable loans from banks that he otherwise would not have been entitled to.
Called as a witness by James’ team on Nov. 6, a combative Trump made similar claims while also launching attacks on the AG and the judge who will decide the case, Arthur Engoron.
“Eric has already testified, PERFECTLY,” Trump wrote, “so there is no reason to waste any more of this Crooked Court’s time on having him say the same thing, over and over again, as a witness for the defense.”
Trump’s attorney Alina Habba told reporters after the former president appeared as a spectator at the trial on Thursday that he was “looking forward to taking the stand.”
She said she had urged him not to testify again because of a gag order preventing him from criticizing the judge’s law clerk, who he had previously complained is biased against him.
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As I understand it, he never had to take the stand in the first place.
Shocked pikachu face
someone must have gotten it through his thick skull there would be no positive at best, and serious legal repercussions at worst. good on them, i hear thats damn near impossible.
