“It was stunningly stupid. Because one, the comparison is ridiculous. But second, if you want to alienate a judge in the case, this was exactly what to do. A female judge, a Black judge, and to talk about that case and compare it to Trump’s case was absurd,” retired California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s “The Source” Monday night.
Lawyers: The Judge in this case was biased against the defendant!
‘Am I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words “I have a cunning plan” marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?’
He knows that if he leaves the case to the facts, he’s cooked.
But, if he can get the Judge’s goat, he might get her to make a blunder that would give him grounds for an appeal. Or, he might make her act annoyed with him in front of the jury. Or, he might make big enough headlines to taint the jury pool. Or, any of other possible results. To him, there is no down-side and plenty of up-side.
Of course, to most people, it is seen as being petty, obnoxious, and childish. To his base, though, these are virtues, as it makes them feel better about themselves. And, if he can get a reaction, any reaction, from “the libs” it’s double-plus good.
It looks as if this Judge is wise to his foolishness. I hope she just meets his attacks with sterner orders and restricts his legal team’s ability to act in this way, while granting leniency other, minor, inconsequential issues. I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when Trump’s lawyers were discussing the response to the Court (PDF of Response 8-17-23) which included the reference to the Scottsboro case.
Heh, Rudy was so bad about stalling discovery in his defamation case against two Georgia poll workers that he earned a default judgement against him. Way to lawyer there, buddy.
Good. The Ruby Freeman / Shay Moss thing is one that pissed me off the most about this whole mess. They should have parades in their honor and monument built to fete them. Giuliani should be forced to leave a phone message to them every day apologizing without reservation and humbly requesting their forgiveness. Then someone should walk up to him and kick him right square in the balls, that son of a bitch.
im not 'merican - so I don’t carry the same emotional luggage as some of you … but there were moment’s where I really felt sorry for him … kinda … granny, time to go home for us now…
Just looked at it and I’m wondering if he is having a series of mild strokes (NOT a Doctor, but from what I’ve seen in my life, it seems plausible). And yeah, he needs to retire right now.
McConnell has his own thread in Politics and Elections, where this is being discussed. Many people there are expressing some level of concern and sympathy as well. There is the expected amount of vitriol and animosity too, of course.
“Copium”, as in “to abuse --”, “to get high on —”, etc., apparently means a comforting false narrative that one seeks out in order to avoid facing a discomforting reality.
I am more suspicious that he’s having episodic short seizures (maybe what’s called ‘absence seizures’), although they are not very common in older folks.