“It’s clear Trump wanted to avoid the bloodbath of a cross-examination but wanted to say something”
Former President Donald Trump spent just three minutes on the witness stand Thursday in his defamation trial brought by E. Jean Carroll, using his testimony to declare that he backs his prior deposition denying the writer’s claims.
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As Trump left the courtroom, according to The Messenger’s Adam Klasfeld, he complained to the press in the gallery, saying, “It’s not America. It’s not America. This is not America.”
“Slam”
Find a better word.
We have people whose vocabulary consists of “imagine” and “literally” and a jumble of mis-joined words and bad pluralization.
Imagine u literally backup emails
This is the hill you’re defending?
He’s gotta be running out of lawyers willing to take him as a client at this point
Letting him testify
Cute they think that was her decision, let alone her idea to have him rant in the trial. Donnie wanted desperately to speak out in almost every prior case so far, and especially so now we are in primary season to maintain his victim complex
She’s not a competent lawyer by even the most generous of standards. I agree that this was absolutely his idea, but she also has a fiduciary responsibility to her clients, so the blame is certainly hers. He can’t actually take the stand unless called by a lawyer, and no competent lawyer would have done that (and some of his other lawyers even prevented him in other cases).
She’s a colossal fuckup, no matter whose hairbrained idea it was initially.
You cannot blame a lawyer for allowing their client to testify, they literally have an ethical obligation to allow a client to testify if the client chooses to (ABA Model Rule 3.3(9) ). You can call her competency into question for other reasons, but she would absolutely be sanctioned if she didn’t allow him to testify.
Neat! I learned something! Thanks.
And I guess that’s the reason why two of his lawyers withdrew, one even the day before trial, because they could not convince him to stay silent and did not want to watch him testify and could not hinder him to testify because of the law.
It’s not America he is used to, for all these years of golfing, being a showman and conman and hanging out with Epstein and Co with no care for the world around. He could do that until he die, the US of A could’ve let him. But for whatever reason he went all in.
Habba’s mission is not to be a good lawyer within the rules and traditions of the courtroom. Habba’s mission is to drag the proceedings as much as possible out of the rules of the courtroom, and into the rules of “I’m the leader, do as I say or I’ll have you shot.”
A lawyer who’s staying within the rules of the courtroom is pretty much doomed to failure, and will interfere with mission #2 while they’re failing, which is why Trump hates them. Trump is so generally incompetent that it remains to be seen whether mission #2 will be successful. But Trump and Habba are in no way using bad strategy when they try mission #2, because it’s certainly possible to win that game, whereas mission #1 is a lost cause at this point.
Habba argued that her arguments for the case’s dismissal were being misunderstood, offering to clarify them for the judge. But Kaplan’s response was short. “No,” he replied.
He hired some less than excellent bimbo lawyer and it’s working out predictably
Based on the lawsuit against her by a former client, she’s an insane backstabbing snake, not a bimbo.
Her husband was a member at one of Trump’s golf courses. She finds out that a waitress at the course was sueing the place and her manager because he had sexually abused her for years and coerced her into it with job threats.
She befriended the woman, convinced her to drop the actually beneficial lawyer she had, got her to sign an NDA and accept a pittance sum under 20k. Then dropped the woman as a client.
Allegedly that’s how she got the job with Trump. She turned around and went to him and told him what she did and how she saved him millions of dollars.
However, as I said, the woman is now sueing her and she is facing potentially being disbarred for that evil act.
