While I know the term has an actual, different meaning, that was a mental image I could do without. There’s not enough brain bleach in the universe to erase that visual.
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You’re not titillated by a Congressional debriefing?
Ding ding ding ding!
Don’t even get me started on the Majority Whip…
Not to outdone, the Brits have Black Rod so there’s that.
Not really related but years ago, when the Dopers were writing “Finish the…” stories one was a Hornblower era sea story. I wtote a scene about a sailor being flogged, and when I surfed the net looking for info you wouldn’t believe the websites I saw.
I think this was in The Young Ones.
Pirate Captain: Did you flog the prisoner?
First Mate: Aye, Captain!
Pirate Captain: How much did you get?
[laughter]
Is That how Marge Three-Toes lost two toes per foot and had her faced whipped to scar tissue…?
Notice how prominently he mentions Melania. Oh, wait…
Class act.
Ain’t he just? 
He has plenty of class - all of it low.
He’s all class- he just needs the C and the L.
Seriously, does he thinks this will get him any votes that he doesn’t already own?
Seriously… did anybody expect anything different from that assclown? If he posted something that was anywhere close to a heartfelt Mother’s Day message, I’d suspect a staffer wrestled his phone away from him and posted it.
Funny, but I thought I read that she was supporting him in his run for
President in 2024. Happy Mother’s Day, Melania!
I agree with @Atamasama’s guess except I would substitute “shouldn’t” for “couldn’t”.
There is a certain sort of client who will reluctantly make their own decision based on your advice but subsequently – when it suits them – say you “made” them do something. No matter how much you qualify your advice by saying that there are risks involved and that ultimately it is their decision what they do.
Trump could not fit the mould as being that sort of client more perfectly if he tried.
I have no doubt that in his addled self-serving mind, he genuinely believes that he was “prevented” from testifying. I also have no doubt that if he absolutely insisted that he was going to testify, he could have testified.
He’s still wasting oxygen other people could use, and skin that no one wants. Yeah, he’s still pissing me off.
But that’s not a legal defense anywhere. Unless you’re talking actual coercion with gun-in-hand or kidnapped family members to ensure compliance. And of course that wouldn’t help the client-claimant’s appeal of the original verdict–it might lead to charges against the attorney if the client had proof, but that’s something else again.
So if Trump thinks he can get somewhere in an appeal by saying his lawyer forced him to refrain from testifying, he’s even more delusional than we thought (and that would be saying something.)
I certainly wasn’t meaning to suggest that clients who think this way can use it as any form of legal defence. Rather, it’s simply how they reference the decision in subsequent discussions.
I haven’t been following Trump’s inane (and insane) shenanigans closely recently, but as far as I have heard, he hasn’t suggested that him being “prevented“ from testifying is a ground of appeal. Rather, it is just something that he has said in one of his whiny public rants.