Dude says it’s “LEGALLY IRREFUTABLE,” and if you can’t trust the word of a disgraced former president, rapist, and fraudster then who can you trust? Given his penchant for surrounding himself with yes men, I have to wonder if he had any lawyers tell him it was the best disclaimer clause ever written. I wouldn’t doubt for a second someone told him what he wanted to hear. He might have asked ten lawyers who told him it wouldn’t protect him but he listened to the one who told him what he wanted to hear.
I’ve posted about it before, but Trump’s almost 500 page deposition in this case is spectacular, 7 hours of him bragging, confessing and say stupid shit.
Remember when Mazur’s , the accounting firm Trump used, quit? Trump claims they came to him in tears, heartbroken at having to leave him because of the mean prosecutor.
Trump is completely unclear about who actually came to his office and what they actually said, but they were definitely crying about having to fire Trump as a client.
Q. So it’s your position –
A. Many lawyers have come to me and said, you have the greatest worthless clause I’ve ever seen. How can they be using this statement against you? I say, because of politics, that’s why. I have a clause in there that says, don’t believe the statement, go out and do your own work. This statement is “worthless.” It means nothing.
and later
A. I have attorneys that are saying this is the strongest worthless clause they’ve ever seen.
Q. Who told you that?
A. Attorneys.
Q. Your attorneys or attorneys for —-
A. My attorneys.
A. Other attorneys too. Would you like me to get you some names?
A. They say it’s the strongest worthless clause they’ve ever seen, meaning, they say the document is worthless.
Oh, I got that. I’m just wondering if there’s any grain of truth to it. If Trump touted the evidence of heliocentrism I’d begin to doubt what I learned in grade school. i.e. I don’t trust him for some reason.
I was looking at it earlier and this paragraph stood out to me. It explains so much about Trump’s reality.
He really believes that he can’t get in trouble if he just puts all his evil out there for everyone to see. “I’ve shown you how terrible I am. Anything that comes from that is not my fault.”
I enjoy looking in at a RW message board. When MSM sources, such as the NYT, the WaPo, or CNN cite “unnamed sources,” they are immediately discounted as “untrustworthy, because they’re not brave enough to state their names.” But if an “unnamed source” says something good about Trump, then it’s perfectly fine, and their names need not be given.
Let’s call a spade a fucking shovel: Trumpism is a cult.
I do it too. And I’ve said before that you get a much better understanding of the MAGA crowd. Which I think is worth something.
You also realize that it genuinely, really is all about Trump and the movement. No higher ideals, no convictions, just Trump and being part of the team. Belonging.
They were claiming yesterday that since Trump paid the loans back, lying about the worth of the assets wasn’t fraud. Really.
I am always curious about that: sometimes, after a theft (eg, car, jewelry, etc.), the authorities DO recover the stolen goods; the victim DOES get their possessions back.
When that happens, does that negate the robbery, burglary, or other underlying crime?
If insurance compensates a bank for their losses during a bank robbery, can the bank robbers use “Hey, no harm, no foul” as an affirmative defense?
If you shoot somebody, but you miss, is “We good?” going to allow you to walk scot-free?
Hm. I didn’t think so …
I also love the “disclaimer” angle – very reminiscent of “No offense, but you’re kind of an asshole.”
I say it often, and with no intended hyperbole: it is a cult, in a very literal sense. And deprogramming a sizable chunk of the US population seems an unlikely task to be able to accomplish.
The whole “worthless clause” thing seems to be the legal equivalent of “it didn’t count because I had my fingers crossed”.
If Trump accomplished anything, it was giving mental health and psychological professionals something to work on and talk about for years. Because this is all (and has been) horrifically fascinating.
