Well, sure. Trump has been involved in around 4,000 legal cases, most of them lawsuits against him, and quite a number of frivolous ones that he’s instigated, such as suing Bill Maher for claiming that Trump’s father was an orangutan.
The reason most of us haven’t heard of the defamation suit against CNN is because essentially it is indeed for CNN reporting the news, and so nobody gives a shit about it and it’s likely that Jim Trusty pulled out so as not to be sanctioned for contempt for abusing the justice system.
Nitpick: donald didn’t sue Bill Maher for saying his father was an orangutan. He sued Maher for breach of contract, because Maher said he would pay donald a million dollars if he could prove his father wasn’t an orangutan, and donald asserted that he had the proof.
It’s pretty well known that people he worked with throughout his life would never meet with him alone because he couldn’t be trusted to tell the truth about what was discussed. Hopefully, the lhese lawyers are following that precedent.
Another possibility is that they had an pre-trial interview with him and found out that he wasn’t willing to give the expert opinion they wanted him to (i.e. lie)
The actual proposed order seems to be cover only non-classified discovery. Here’s a link to the Motion and Proposed Order. I only skimmed it, but not sure we’ve got an Order on the classified stuff, yet as the article suggests. The proposed order defines discovery materials as “all non-classified discovery”. With the classified stuff, I’d expect something “invoking” CIPA, or if not going the CIPA, lots more explicit language about classified documents.
Anyways, my point here is about Orders generally…Judge Cannon and Trump are probably at the peak of the “relationship” (based on previous rulings Cannon seems to favor him). Right. Soon there will be Orders from the Court that says Trump can’t do stuff. Trump will violate those Orders. Cannon will tolerate more than most, but eventually, like everyone in Trump’s orbit, relationships get worse, never better. Maybe this is wishful thinking, but I’d like to think she wants to project she’s in charge of her Court and won’t tolerate blatant violations of her Orders.
Interesting. She may be under the illusion at this point that if she treats him well, fairly, and even (gag) respectfully, that he will respond in kind with reasonable, mature behavior.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Seriously, we’ve all known people (usually women) who believe that they can 1) get through to, 2) manage, 3) bring into line the PITA guy that no one else can handle. That they have the gift and/or Magic Touch.
I predict things will rapidly go in this direction.
In otherwords she will soon become a “nasty incompetant hateful biased so called ‘judge’ who has no business being on the bench” (ignoring the fact that it was Trump who put her there).
And probably before she makes any serious rulings against him. That’s why the question of whether any regard or respect or favoritism towards him can survive an entire trial’s worth of whining, immaturity, defiance, and insults is a good one.
I predict rather confidently that things will go in the opposite direction. He won’t violate her orders, much less violently, because his best chance of beating this rap is her warm gushy feelings towards him at sentencing.
I guarantee you that there is absolutely no possibility in Loser Donald’s mind that he will be found guilty. He fully expects that on the day of the verdict, the foreman will stand up, with tears in his eyes, and declare him to be the most innocent man who ever lived, and then the entire gallery will burst out in applause and cheers as the jury lifts him up on their shoulders and carries him out of the courtroom while singing “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow”.
Trump lawyer Alina Habba thinks she gets to do discovery depositions of government witnesses. That happens in civil lawsuits, but that’s not a thing in criminal cases. Defense attorneys get to cross-examine witnesses at trial. There are no pre-trial discovery depositions in criminal trials.
