I suspect it’ll also cut the inevitable appeal off at the knees.
He’ll blame his lawyers.
Judge: Are you Trump doesn’t want any more rope to hang himself with?
Lawyer: No we’re good
Judge" Well, we’ll just leave this lovely 12 foot length of oiled hemp right out in front of Trump over the weekend just to be sure.
After he talked about how Carroll wasn’t his type, he followed up by telling the attorney that he wouldn’t assault her either and he hoped that didn’t offend her. The man has absolutely no idea how to be a decent human.
The conversation in my house when that story came on the network news.
“A million years, Mr. Trump?”
“The Tyrannosaurus Rex was a very famous dinosaur, some say he was like a king, his name means dinosaur king I think. He was very famous and if you’ve seen his pictures he has special arms with tiny little hands, hands designed for grabbing dinosaur pussy. I always felt we might be related because he was a king, and his hands look like mine. And of course he was a pussy grabber, it’s like he was designed to grab pussy. Just like me. Except I didn’t do it.”
I have seen judges give very strong hints to counsel that they may want to re-consider their strategy on a particular point.
Heck, I was once in private judge’s chambers and heard the judge tell defence counsel he should consider switching from a jury trial to a judge-alone trial.
It happens.
Good lord,
Most of it is just general obfuscation insults and and lying,
For example paraphasing (starting at 6:35) I very rarely visited Bergdorf’s department store …well maybe one or twice but never bought anything for my self … I’ve never bought anything for anyone else either … actually I don’t think I’ve ever been in there.
But starting at 28:23, the discussion move to his use of the word swooned in a Twuth resulting in his claims that she said she loved the rape and thought it was sexy. 
So even though he claims this never happened he also has to claim that she wanted it. 
For the record what he was referring to was this interview with Anderson Cooper.
CARROLL: I was not thrown on the ground and ravished. Which the word “rape” carries so many sexual connotations. This was not – this was not sexual. It just hurt. It just –
COOPER: I think most people think of rape as a – it is a violent assault. It is not –
CARROLL: I think most people think of rape as being sexy.
COOPER: Let’s take a short break –
CARROLL: They think of the fantasies…
No Don, it doesn’t mean she thinks it was sexy.
Wait a minute. That’s a confession right there.
But he also confessed to obstruction of justice on a TV interview.
This is just beyond rediculous.
That’s a given. So is not paying them.
The whole “this was literally the plot line of a Law and Order SVU episode is just more Trumpian gaslighting.
This was not the plot of a Law and Order SVU episode. Law and Order SVU never did an episode where the detectives investigated a rape that happened in a department store dressing room.
There is an episode called Theatre Tricks where an actress gets raped onstage during a show that involves audience interaction, and everyone thought it was part of the show.
Somewhere in the course of investigating that rape, the detectives are interviewing a man who is talking about his experiences with sexual roleplaying. One of the scenarios he describes is barging in on his consensual partner and having sex with her in a dressing room at Bergdorf. This piece of dialogue is less than 30 seconds long.
But the idea that this was the “plot” of the episode is just more bullshit.
There’s also an episode of the original L&O that begins with a security guard in a department store discovering a woman in lingerie in one of the dressing rooms after hours. Turns out she’s his girlfriend and he snuck her into the store for a little role playing.
I’m told there is a genre of porn where male store detectives / security guards detain female alleged shoplifters who’ll be able to get away with no report filed and no police being called if the shoplifter performs certain acts of … gratitude with/on the guard(s).
Perhaps Trump is a fan of those & got that confused with Law & Order.
Not donald. He’s not participating.
The idea came from his lawyer, Tacopenis.
Jeebus – combine that with his criminal indictment, and just imagine someone with that track record from another country trying to enter the US. They’d be banned for life on the grounds of moral turpitude, a favoured term of the CPB. But if you’re an orange shit-gibbon, you have a good shot at another presidential term.
No, there’s no problem at all with the American political culture, why do you ask? 
Italics mine.
The jokes practically write themselves.
And the amazing thing is how Carroll watched this episode of Law and Order, focused on that 30 seconds and then went back in time to tell her younger self to call her friends and relay this plot device from a future TV show, so she could travel forward in time and accuse Trump.
Very devious.
Easy-peasy - the DNC loaned her the time machine they used to get Obama’s birth announcement into that Hawaiian paper. Anything to smear TFG.
If I am correct, Trump has about 20 minutes to file a motion to allow the trial to re-open so that he can testify.
Tick tock
Oh, please let him do it. Please let him testify.