Must have been tough for her lawyers to write that motion with a straight face
― tobo73, Friday, 3 November 2023 18:57 (six months ago) link
“Yours in service”
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 November 2023 18:57 (six months ago) link
jared can be mommy for a day or two
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 November 2023 18:57 (six months ago) link
Pretty sure DJT will motion that he is suffering an undue hardship as his testimony comes in the middle of King Kong Week on the Gorilla Channel.
― henry s, Friday, 3 November 2023 19:00 (six months ago) link
This whole thing is such a joke and his business seemingly ran the the emperor's new clothes, it makes me question the entire validity of the US economy as it seems like any moron with enough money can just get lawyers to make any stupidity go away.
As long as you don't get into Theranos or Enron or FTX total fuckery, you don't end up in REAL trouble.
Look at a dude like Michael Milken for all the BS he did, dude is still in business doing his thing.
All this and you can get choked out on the street for selling single smokes in America.
― earlnash, Friday, 3 November 2023 22:29 (six months ago) link
are you insulting the american dream
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 3 November 2023 23:42 (six months ago) link
LOL I have an old fam friend who’s a total Trumper, married a very rich person and they live practically next door to Trump in NJ and she just posted a pic on instagram a few days ago and I was like “is she posting a pic of herself with Michael Mullen?!?!” Yes she was.
― tobo73, Saturday, 4 November 2023 00:06 (six months ago) link
now that Meadows has disavowed the great lie his book publisher is suing him for leaving them with a lot of unwanted pulpers all about the great lie.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 5 November 2023 11:46 (five months ago) link
i love to see it
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Sunday, 5 November 2023 20:54 (five months ago) link
They could market it as metafiction
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:06 (five months ago) link
The second post is actually completely different from the first due to context.
Do you think you could market it as metafiction?
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:09 (five months ago) link
60 Minutes is doing a segment on me tonight, after an extensive interview I gave them a couple of weeks ago. Have no idea what the final produced version will be like, but wanted to let friends know to watch if you're interested. https://t.co/bEkmLdu0zu— John Eastman (@DrJohnEastman) November 5, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:41 (five months ago) link
He seems confident his dodgy rationalizations will protect him from legal jeopardy.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:44 (five months ago) link
Another striking similarity with the Nazi party is how you can look at nearly all of these goons and be like, "THIS guy thinks he's part of a "master race"?"
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:49 (five months ago) link
I think that guy's face melted at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
― omar little, Sunday, 5 November 2023 23:20 (five months ago) link
Lawyer’s nightmare scenario: When Trump takes the witness stand today, he needs to explain fraud allegations without committing perjury or invoke 5th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, which allows judge, in this civil case, to infer the worst
Saw some suggestion that baiting the judge into losing his temper and overreacting to Trump bullshit is an actual possible Trump strategy and not just, like, rationalizing what may happen regardless.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 14:41 (five months ago) link
Yes, read a Rolling Stone feature quoting Dershowitz saying it could be a tactic to goad the judge into overreacting and thus strengthening post-verdict appeal as Trump winning the case in the courtroom is virtually impossible.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Monday, 6 November 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
yah getting to be prez again is worth perjury and courtroom incitement-- in the same way paris was worth a mass.
i was gonna type "re-election is worth..." but decided he doesn't need actual re-election, since if he's on the ballot he'll just claim it anyhow.
― that genius dn i thought of on Zing but couldn't update to (Hunt3r), Monday, 6 November 2023 15:09 (five months ago) link
Judge Engoron to Trump: "Please, just answer the questions, no speeches." Judge added: "Some of your answers have not been responsive to the question."
Judge added: "Some of your answers have not been responsive to the question."
Always worth a reminder: he has already been found guilty, this is about damages/penalty, and iirc, the/this judge gets to decide them.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 15:16 (five months ago) link
Going great!
Engoron: "I beseech you to control him, if you can."The judge warns Kise that if he will control Trump if the lawyer doesn't.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 6, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 November 2023 15:53 (five months ago) link
Reporter: Mr. Trump how’s it going in there?Trump: 🤐 pic.twitter.com/ORTSg6t3zc— Acyn (@Acyn) November 6, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 16:09 (five months ago) link
Judge should punish him by forcing him to take LSD and then try to cross the street outside of the courthouse
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 16:10 (five months ago) link
^^ what a world this would be.
― tobo73, Monday, 6 November 2023 16:11 (five months ago) link
then forcing him to eat at gunpoint a dead cat
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 November 2023 16:16 (five months ago) link
aka Steve Bannon
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 16:18 (five months ago) link
Gristly.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 November 2023 16:19 (five months ago) link
thought you were going to say "aka McDonald's Filet o Fish"
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 November 2023 16:19 (five months ago) link
a dead cat
Trump himself does have, as the kids say, orange cat energy.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 16:23 (five months ago) link
lol
“Donald Trump just declared this an unfair trail” “Do you have more information on that?”“A very very unfair” pic.twitter.com/SKYeIVPTSW— Acyn (@Acyn) November 6, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 16:26 (five months ago) link
“A very very unfair” for December US Politics thread title
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 November 2023 16:34 (five months ago) link
Such genius
NYAG's counsel confronts Trump with the deed stating that "the Club and Trump intend to forever extinguish their right to develop or use the Property for any purpose other than club use."Trump parses: "'Intend' doesn’t mean we will do it."— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 6, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 November 2023 16:59 (five months ago) link
I heard he has got an agreement with dept of interior or whatever the US heritage is called that it will remain a club and not be developed and he receives tax easements through this agreement so saying you can just say fuck 'em doesn't stack up!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 6 November 2023 17:07 (five months ago) link
Funny how it works
After Trump repeats his talking points about the disclaimer clause, Wallace tells him he already said that."I'm trying to make you understand it," Trump replies.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 6, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 November 2023 17:13 (five months ago) link
Trump rails on about the "fraudulent" decision, claiming Engoron believed a political "hack" over him, referring to the NYAG.Wallace: "Are you done?"— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 6, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 November 2023 17:17 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noGHvxUtIy0
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 6 November 2023 18:32 (five months ago) link
So far Trump's defenses have largely been along the line of "Yeah, I signed/said it, but I didn't mean it."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 19:33 (five months ago) link
Wasn't that his defense of the bleach recommendation? "I was just joking, I wanted to see how'd you react."
― henry s, Monday, 6 November 2023 19:36 (five months ago) link
lmao
"Aberdeen is the oil capital of Europe, very rich..." Trump says, at which point, the judge interjects: "Irrelevant!"Trump adds softly, "It is."— erica orden (@eorden) November 6, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 6 November 2023 19:36 (five months ago) link
I know the criminal cases are juicier because of the dream of putting him behind bars, but I think this fraud case is going to be massively consequential for him, especially with the genius move of mouthing off to a judge who has sole discretion over his entire fortune.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 6 November 2023 19:37 (five months ago) link
It probably works well for his fundraising side but when the judge is dismissing every defence from his attorney's as "whistling past the graveyard" you might think it's a terrible tactic and the level of disgorgement to come is going to be more high than low from what is already a high baseline!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 6 November 2023 19:45 (five months ago) link
This exchange making the rounds as a major gotcha:
Judge Engoran: Proceed.NY AG lawyer: Mr. Trump, the court officer is handing you PX 416, Deutsche Bank, term loan agreement 2012. Let's go to page 6. Is that your signature?Trump: Yes.NY AG lawyer: Page 105, the guaranty, did you sign it?Trump: Yes.NY AG lawyer: This says "in order to induce lending" - you see that?Trump: Yes.NY AG lawyer: Little Roman i, it says as of June 30, 2011 - do you believe it was true and accurate?Trump: Yeah, I do.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 19:49 (five months ago) link
After Trump again brings up the disclaimer clause, giving a lengthy statement about how it is comprehensive and goes on forever, AG lawyer Kevin Wallace says, "Well, that clause isn’t the only thing that goes on forever."— erica orden (@eorden) November 6, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 19:52 (five months ago) link
This whole thing is so rich
Trump says his net worth was far greater than on the financial statements. “Therefore, you have no case.”NYAG prosecutor: “Umm”— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) November 6, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 November 2023 19:53 (five months ago) link
Put your hand in the hand of the man who conned the donors
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 19:58 (five months ago) link
“Trump testified that he believed he was worth more than his financial statements reflected, concluding: “Therefore, you have no case.”
As for the banks and insurers, Trump again pointed to the disclaimer clause, describing it as an extensive caveat that “goes on forever.”
Kevin Wallace, the lawyer for James’ office who was questioning Trump, replied: “Well, that clause isn’t the only thing that goes on forever.”
In between battling the judge, Trump’s lawyers heaped praise on their client, with Kise calling Trump’s answers “great” and “brilliant,” even while admitting, “I’m just not sure what he’s answering.” Kise also referred to Trump as the “former and soon-to-be chief executive of the United States.””
Reading this almost made me miss being a newspaper reporter, covering courts
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/06/trump-civil-fraud-trial-00125515
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:17 (five months ago) link
Kise also said Trump will be the next Golden Bachelor.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 00:29 (five months ago) link
On his way out of court, Kise further applauded Trump’s performance, telling reporters: “In 33 years, I’ve never had a witness testify better.”
The level of sycophancy that this guy demands is so gross. Just odious.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 02:37 (five months ago) link
yeah it’s for the paycheck right
― that genius dn i thought of on Zing but couldn't update to (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 02:58 (five months ago) link