Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

imagine the FUNDRAISING

Remarkable exchange between the judge and Trump’s lawyer at the end of the day.

When Robert requests a directed verdict again, the judge snaps: “Absolutely not,” adding that he doesn’t regard Cohen as a “key witness.”

“There’s enough evidence in this case to fill this courtroom,” he adds.

#BREAKING from @NBCNews team inside courtroom:

“TRUMP IMMEDIATELY GETS UP AND STORMS OUT OF THE COURTROOM WITH SECRET SERVICE AGENTS CHASING AFTER HIM….COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED AND SURPRISING TO HIS OWN ATTORNEYS …COURTROOM GASPED”

— Shawn Reynolds (@ShawnReynolds_) October 25, 2023

deal from strength or get crushed every time

I've had enough of this - good night!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2013

If you can't beat 'em, pretend beating them is beneath your dignity.

at this rate he's gonna talk himself into the death penalty

it'll take 16 Big Macs to calm him down

gratifying AF but until he’s in debtors’ prison it’s temporary. XP

So it sounds like the sequence is:

Cohen says on stand that Trump did not directly tell him to inflate values.

Trump lawyer asks for directed verdict because this testimony absolves Trump

Judge says good try, Cohen isn't even a key witness.

Trump gets up and storms out

Imagine him running you can't.

I'm imagining it alright, but he starts off running in place and not getting amywhere

with Hanna-Barbera sound fx playing on background

just like when I to type on my phone.

lol, I need caffeine

I want a GIF of Trump running that is accompanied by "Yakety Sax"

So if you get up and storm out of your trial, at which you are (afaict) appearing voluntarily, can you be charged with contempt? Barring that, how about just for being a big drama-queen asshole?

Does anyone know the source of his beef with this court clerk?

My court experience is limited, but I generally don't hold political views of the staff... perhaps an earlier encounter?

He's got a great Deep State-dar.

iirc, one of the early stories about Trump's first statements attacking the clerk mentioned that during some of the more routine and preliminary court proceedings the clerk presided rather than the judge. my sense is that Trump is especially outraged by having a 'little nobody' kind of person in charge of any aspect of the case and treating him like any defendent. it afflicts his rich kid, spoiled, ex-presidential ego because such underlings should only appear in the role of doing his bidding and getting out of his way. I don't know if they are, but if the clerk is also a POC, that outrage would apply x10.

This is the clerk he doxxed right?

he posted a pic of the clerk that was taken with Chuck Schumer and inferred they were having an affair iirc

Yes, he called her "Schumer's girlfriend."

he probably doesn't know what 'partisan' actually means, but heard it from Bannon or someone and thinks that it makes him sound smart

Never forget “…a very against police judge” from… 2018, i think?

How does he cope with so much winning in court? Just needed to release the tension with a much-deserved victory lap? He won his case 10 times already, must be hard

A contempt citation might be another $5,000 fine, which he can simultaneously ignore, appeal/challenge, and fundraise off of. Or do a Jim Carrey "I _AM_ in contempt!" speech.

But I wait in joyful hope for jail time

he doesn't even need to be there, but who else will properly glower at the witnesses?

https://i.imgur.com/htqlu5A.jpg

what do you think would happen to any other defendant who decided to just storm out of a courtroom like that?

Good question frogbs. Of course, I can't recall very many times that a defendant had been head of state and therefore (theoretically) in charge of the entire government?

(Not defending this repugnant worthless ass, of course. Just saying that it's just a pretty novel situation.)

Judge Ben Stiller looks on as Colin Jost testifies

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:eco,dpr_2.0/rockcms/2023-10/231225-donald-Trump-on-stand-ew-445p-c4abd1.jpg

what do you think would happen to any other defendant who decided to just storm out of a courtroom like that?

Keep thinking about this and wonder how many people have been tackled by the bailiffs for doing this.

yeah but bailiffs are usually not up against secret service agents

they were probably afraid of him actually shitting his pants on impact and getting it all over the flooring

xp - of course not and I understand why this case is different, regardless I think it underscores how there remains two justice systems in this country.

Every time I open this thread I hope the c*** has died

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/colo-judge-rejects-trumps-bid-toss-lawsuit-aimed-keeping-2024-ballot-rcna122281

Similar lawsuit in Minnesota, and probably other states as well ...

Hard not to see a near future in which, depending on which state you live, there will be one major party candidate who the local government has ruled shall not appear on the ballot

boy we are getting some purestrain Trump today. does this not defy the gag order as well?

The Radical Left Judge who should not be handling the FAKE & FULLY DISCREDITED CASE brought against me by the New York State A.G. (It should be handled by the Commercial Division, but should never have been brought!), fined me $10,000 yesterday under his so-called gag order. He is a judge that found me GUILTY before the trial even started, and long before he had the real facts, like Michael Cohen collapsing and choking yesterday under cross examination, and completely admitting that I did nothing wrong. He committed MASSIVE PERJURY, at a level seldom seen on the stand before. It was like watching the end of the best Petty Mason episode, where the defendant breaks down and cries, “Yes, I did it, I did it, I did it.” This case should be ended, NOW, but this Judge and his “boss,” Letitia Peekaboo James, will never let that happen. He even refuses to accept our big win in the Appeals Court. It is a disgrace to the legal system in the State of New York. This is a RIGGED CASE!

No the gag order doesnt apply to the judge or AG aiui

This sounds like a guy who wants to discover what prison is like

Letitia Peekaboo James

wtf

PETTY MASON

he should hire petty mason. sounds like his kind of lawyer.

Lol Skot

an interesting point from yesterday is that Trump, without stopping for thought tells the lie that he was attacking the witness rather than the judge's clerk - so he was still breaking the terms of the gag order even in his lie.

Apparently he's been using the "Peekaboo" nickname for over a year. Nobody knows why.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/letitia-james-peekaboo-trump-nickname-theories.html

he boxes in a manner similar to Mike Tyson?

I'd say that thinly veiled racism is a pretty cut and dried answer here

yeah really. barely veiled.

right I don't think it's a mystery it just feels like one of those old school racist terms he probably learned from his Dad