Former President Donald Trumpās Thursday courtroom tirade could backfire, legal experts warn.
Trump attorney Chris Kise asked Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing Trumpās New York fraud trial, to allow Trump to speak on his own behalf during closing arguments. Engoron asked Trump if he would agree to stick to the facts and relevant law but the former president launched into a lengthy diatribe, accusing the judge and New York Attorney General Letitia James of waging a āpolitical witch huntā and demanding ādamagesā because the real āfraud is on me.ā
During one portion of his rant, Trump referred to a key allegation in Jamesā lawsuit alleging that the former presidentās Trump Tower penthouse was valued at three times larger than it actually is.
āThey made a mistake. It was an honest mistake,ā Trump said.
Jamesā team allowed Trump to speak until the judge ultimately shut him down and pleaded for Kise to ācontrol your client.ā
āThere may be a reason that Jamesā staff didnāt interrupt,ā wrote NBC News legal analyst Lisa Rubin. āThe AGās office may have struck gold because some of what Trump said was so damaging to him, especially his explanation of the triplex square footage āerror.āā
They got him this time, folks!
Itās just a witch hunt. They have ulterior motives. They are deep state setting me up. They canāt see the real truth. Only I do.
Am I missing anything else?
Just FYI, itās āulteriorā. Itās one of the weird ones.
Dammit. Thanks.
If you elect me ill ātake careā of them. Wink wink (he says the wink wink part out loud now)
The nihilism of legal consequences has so far come from the lack of charging him with anything, mostly when he was president and the policy was not to charge him with anything. He hasnāt actually gotten away with anything that has gone to court.
He lost the E Jean Carroll suit and the Trump Corp fraud case. The other stuff is still ongoing.
We got him!
91 criminal charges
4 independent grand jury indictments.
Yeah. Iāll take that bet.