Doesn’t he have a rally scheduled on the same day as his mother-in-law’s funeral?
This is their whole game plan. Playing the victim. “hostility” Boo hoo, poor little Trumpie. Everyone is so mean to him.
Of course the obvious solution is quit doing so much illegal stuff and you won’t be spending so much time in courtrooms.
he has a rally scheduled for tonight at 7pm. i don’t know about tomorrow.
I’d really like to know if this is true, because I would think the judge would want to point that out to everyone.
Regarding the rest of it, I wish the Judge could say
“OK, I know you want to get tossed out to bolster your victim status, and I’m not going to play into it. You’ll stay right there. Bailiff, please apply the orange ball gag to Mr. Trump”
Habba says she has 30 minutes more for cross examination tomorrow. Trump left the court room after her last question of the day before the jury left.
He had to hurry over to 40 Wall Street, to make a speech to the media.
CNN showed it. It was the usual blather. Plus this time, he complained how unfair the judge was because the judge wouldn’t pause proceedings tomorrow, so Trump could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral. Apparently, the judge said Trump could attend the funeral, or be in court, his choice, but the judge was not going to cancel court tomorrow.
Trump’s attendance in court is not absolutely necessary, so he could attend the funeral while the matter continued. But it’s one more thing that Trump can complain about, I guess.
From a show-biz, sympathy from the jury view - he should. Then Habba could point it out.
So then he probably won’t. He’ll likely be at a rally, insulting the judge and possibly getting in some more defamation against Jean Carroll for good measure.
I haven’t had this much fun following a trial in a very, very long time. Judge Kaplan does not seem at all concerned about treating Trump and his team with kid gloves and it was immensely satisfying to learn Habba had the temerity to tell the judge, “I don’t like to be spoken to that way, your honor” was just perfect. We continue to see that Habba is not skilled enough to even know the basics of how to introduce evidence let alone conduct herself properly in a courtroom. And Trump just can’t help himself. He’s in an out-of-control wagon soon to careen off a cliff and he’s slapping the reigns to make the horses go faster! It’s incredible.
That’s said, what a weak pathetic man Trump is. Even if you think Trump’s getting a raw deal, his lack of impulse control is good evidence that he is not fit to be president.
- Wednesday was the first day of testimony in Trump’s second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial in NY.
- A fed-up Judge Lewis Kaplan rebuked Trump lawyer Alina Habba at least 14 times throughout the day.
- “Sit down,” he told her at one point. When she asked for a sidebar, he tersely responded, “No.”
I get the sense Ms Habba isn’t very good at this lawyering thing.
Knowing Trump and his proclivities, I’m pretty sure that’s not the reason she was hired.
I’m sure the judge’s “hostility” will headline Trump’s inevitable appeal.
This is all in front of a jury, so the judge cannot take the same tolerant approach to Trump team nonsense as Engoron did in a bench trial. And the appeals court will know that, so I don’t think any whining will get any traction.
But it will take up time. Especially if he dumps Habba and insists his new lawyer needs a few weeks to get familiar with the case.
Instead of a client dumping his/her lawyer, is it legally possible for a judge to order the dumping of a lawyer? In other words, if Judge Kaplan got sufficiently sick of putting up with Habba, could he evict (or whatever the proper term would be) her from the proceedings?
Trouble finding a cite for this, but I heard on TV that, during prospective jury selection, the judge asked if any of the potential jurors thought that the court system had treated Trump unfairly.
Trump raised his hand.
I’d swear one of his lawyers in one of his cases already talked back to the judge in much the same way. Didn’t someone tell Engoron they ‘won’t be disrespected’?
I’d swear it was Habba that time as well, is she his lawyer in the Engoron trial too?
The closest I could find was her ‘telling’ Engoron she won’t tolerate being yelled at. But by ‘telling’ him, I mean she said it on camera, outside of court, where she has little to no chance of Engoron doing anything about it. Like flipping off that other driver, but doing it after you’re in the exit lane and there’s a concrete divider preventing them from doing anything about it.
That’s my recollection as well.