Trump defense rests at New York hush money trial, ex-president doesn’t testify
Trump defense rests at New York hush money trial, ex-president doesn’t testify
Boooo. I’d love to see a few perjury charges tacked on.
And this is likely exactly why they didn’t call him to the stand. They knew he’d immediately perjure himself, because he’s a compulsive liar. No amount of coaching or “just keep your answers short and only answer exactly what was asked” will keep Trump from lying on the stand.
Just more examples of his dingleberries not having to follow the same rules as everyone else.
Intimidation. Plain and simple.
Did they defense even defend him?
Edit: corrected spelling because someone thinks they are a smart ass.
Thank you for the concise summary
The rest were just bureaucratic filler that most of the jury probably couldn't care less about.
Which was itself part of the defense strategy. In similar cases, the two sides would agree on the validity of certain pieces of evidence, making those technical witnesses unnecessary. But Trump probably told his lawyers not to admit to anything, which probably drew the trial out for a week or two, and forced the prosecution to have to cover every detail, in the hopes the jury would find it all too overwhelming.
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Do we really have to wait a whole week for closing arguments? Just get the hung jury announcement out of the way and let in him off Scot-free, yet again. Can he just have a heart attack already? Sick of this
I have no hope of him ever facing consequences like the rest of us would.
I feel stupid for reading any of these articles or commenting on them. We all know this movie ends with him getting away with it, but it's still compelling compelling for some stupid reason.
So a guy that claims to have been working as Cohens lawyer took the stand. If he was Cohens lawyer though, wouldn't attorney client privilege have prevented him from testifying about anything?
So the mere fact of his presence proves him to be a liar, right? What am I missing?
Sure, I understand that, but I can't think of any way their relationship, especially what was testified to, would be covered by that.
All I'm seeing is that the guy on the right dropped a really nasty one and the guy on the left is mad because he didn't get a heads-up.
If it weren't for that damn gag order Dear Leader would have testified
No balls
Guilty people usually don't.
A whole week before closing arguments, yeesh.
As usual, a coward.
The chonky fascist was whining about being silenced and then decides not to take the stand.
I just hope they're outnumbered when November rolls around.
There's also some tactical value in pretending youre going to testify - the prosecution team will spend a lot of time and effort preparing for it and how to best conduct the cross examination. In this case I doubt it made much difference on that front though.
Now he can pretend he got silenced as the reason why he didn't take the stand.