Especially when he doesn’t say “Trump steaks are the best” but instead says “I have heard from many people that Trump steaks are the best, many people are saying this.”
The oath I administer admonishes to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, under penalty of perjury.”
Always crack me up when testimony is well under way, and in one response the witness says, “To tell the truth…” I generally succeed in not commenting!
But the latter is actually more provable as a lie. “Trump steaks are the best” is an opinion, based on personal taste, which really can’t be impugned by evidence. But in theory, “People are saying” can be demonstrated as true or false. If we can show beyond a reasonable doubt that no one has ever said that too him, it’s shown as a lie.
“Beyond a reasonable doubt” might be difficult to prove, but it is in principle provable.
There’s also the fact that there are many, many lies told under oath, where the prosecutor knows they are lies and often proves they are in the course of the trial, but are never prosecuted. There’s only so much court time in the world and they can’t prosecute every bit of perjury.
If Trump testified, he’d be open to cross-examination. And I think even Trump’s tiny lizard brain would tell him that would be a Very Bad Thing.
Well, sure, any time there’s a criminal trial and the defendant says “I didn’t do it!”, and the jury finds that they did do it, that’s technically perjury.
Just putting this out there, I’ve used this cite on this board before because it’s a good one.
https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/perjury.html
Perjury is rarely charged, and it is difficult for prosecutors to prove. The threat of perjury charges is often a tool lawyers use to ensure that witnesses provide candid testimony to the court.
It’s more often used as a tool to try to obtain a truthful testimony than something that’s actually prosecuted.
But that is not the standard in a civil case. It is preponderance of the evidence ” – meaning that it is more likely than not .
And precisely why DJT, The Trump Crime Family and the Trump Org are so clearly fucked in this situation.
The trial phase (well, the calling of witnesses to give testimony phase) of this case is officially over:
With Trump’s perfect testimony and expert witness, WHO FOUND NO ERRORS IN CALCULATIONS, I’m sure it will be business a usually for President Trump in 2024.
BREAKING:
No surprise there. Good to read nonetheless.
Trump last month appealed, arguing the orders violated his constitutional right to free speech.
On Thursday, the mid-level state appeals court, known as the Appellate Division, said the gag order did not have a major impact.
“Here, the gravity of potential harm is small, given that the Gag Order is narrow, limited to prohibiting solely statements regarding the court’s staff,” the order read.
The judge crafted the gag order intelligently it would seem.
The core reasoning is sound.
Your First Amendment right to speech doesn’t permit you to slander and verbally interfere with the administration of justice any more than your Second Amendment right to bear arms allows you to intimidate the members of the court at gunpoint.
Aw, poor Trump, that Judge Engoron is so doggone mean to him!
# Judge slams Trump’s experts and rejects motion to throw out New York civil fraud case
The New York trial judge overseeing Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial wrote a scathing denial of the former president’s latest attempt to toss the state attorney general’s case against him — potentially a preview of a tough outcome for Trump as the trial process winds down.
Judge Arthur Engoron slammed Trump’s accounting experts and rejected key points of the defense in an order Monday denying a motion for a directed verdict filed by Trump’s attorneys after trial testimony ended last week.
It would be a “glaring flaw” to assume testimony from Trump accounting experts Eli Bartov and Jason Flemmons are true and accurate, the judge wrote.
Thanks for that, @EddyTeddyFreddy . The CNN item is an interesting read. I particularly liked this part about one of Trump’s expert witnesses:
Ouch! That’s gotta hurt.
Ahhh…that explains this Trumper Truth Tantrum.
He should be happy that it is very likely the Trump Organization will soon no longer be doing business in New York, then.
“Brandolini’s law, also known as the [think cow excrement] asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The law states the following: The amount of energy needed to refute [think cow excrement again] is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”