Voluntarily passing up an opportunity to lie, bloviate, ax-grind, spleen-vent and obfuscate before a national audience? To play (paper-thin) ‘tough guy’ before his degenerate maga-head cult crowd?
Something’s really off here…
My bet:
He’ll come out and say that “they won’t even let me take the stand at my own trial, rigged!”
If he loses the trial, he’ll blame the lawyer that didn’t want him to testify, and claim they were part of the deep state.
It’s also extremely disheartening that I had to say, “If he loses” and that I have no faith in our justice system anymore.
He already lost. Summary judgement at the outset. At this point, it’s just about how badly he lost. And Engoron does not appear to be a fan of his behavior.
My bet is he and his lawyers will find ways to appeal all of his current trials until the day he dies so he will never actually feel any punishment.
I assume that’s actually the plan
He must be in really deep doo-doo if he actually starts listening to his lawyers.
He may lose a lot of his hotels and maybe even Maralago over this, he’s nervous and going to get even more crazy talking soon.
Nah, he can do that outside on the courtroom steps without even risking perjury charges.
Awwww but there’s so much rope!
He’ll probably just hold a rally in front of the court and “recommend” his insurrection-loving fans to “visit” the court and “see for themselves how corrupt the court is” or something.
Just have some blog post about how much of a weakling, pussilanimous and pathetic loser he is for not testifying. I hear he likes that sort of stuff. All the tough guy stuff and he just folds over when it gets rough.
I like my presidents with some spine, thanks.
pussilanimous
Wow what an incredible new word I learned today, ty. Honestly thought you just made up a funny word based on “pussy” but this is amazing.
Funnily enough I learned it as a kid from the English version of Asterix, which was originally from France/ in french.
puts popcorn kernels back into cupboard
Shit-for-brains’ lawyers must have finally gotten it through his thick skull that the moron wouldn’t be able to help but incriminate himself in a host of other crimes if he testified.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In an eleventh-hour reversal, former President Donald Trump announced Sunday he will not go back on the witness stand in the $250 million civil fraud trial against him and his company.
Trump had been expected to tout his company’s success and push back on New York Attorney General Letitia James’ claims that he vastly overvalued his properties and his net worth in financial statements that he used to get favorable loans from banks that he otherwise would not have been entitled to.
Called as a witness by James’ team on Nov. 6, a combative Trump made similar claims while also launching attacks on the AG and the judge who will decide the case, Arthur Engoron.
“Eric has already testified, PERFECTLY,” Trump wrote, “so there is no reason to waste any more of this Crooked Court’s time on having him say the same thing, over and over again, as a witness for the defense.”
Trump’s attorney Alina Habba told reporters after the former president appeared as a spectator at the trial on Thursday that he was “looking forward to taking the stand.”
She said she had urged him not to testify again because of a gag order preventing him from criticizing the judge’s law clerk, who he had previously complained is biased against him.
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someone must have gotten it through his thick skull there would be no positive at best, and serious legal repercussions at worst. good on them, i hear thats damn near impossible.
