Donald Trump's colossal admission during trial

Imagine being this genius' lawyer

A plausible sounding article I read stated that his lawyers knew from the start that they didn't have a chance of winning anyway. This whole thing is just theater to try and stall as long as possible to buy time until the election.
I'm sure they've already got plans to cheat their way to a "victory" on that front as well.
- But also taking time to give him a proper trial ensures that the final ruling is constitutional and can't risk being declared a mistrial later on.
His own lawyers declined to question him lmao Knew he'd just make things even worse.
- Isn't it pretty typical for defendents to not take the stand?
Hope they got paid up front...
- Narrator: “they didn’t.”
  (Which really goes to show how incompetent they are.)
- People keep saying this but honesty if you dont have anything going for you... Why not do it for free?
  I know bugger all about law but surely everyone will know you in the profession, and if you mange to do anything close to a good job, then you get some kind of credibility from it?
  Seems like a yolo opportunity for anyone wanting to make a name for themselves.
I'm beginning to think MAGA stands for make attorneys get aneurisms.
- Make Attorneys Get Attorneys
His lawyer went to a law school that doesn't require LSAT scores 😆
She's been auditioning for a spot on Fox the entire time.

The thing I love most about this article is this one throw-away little line right here:

He ... claims that all of his legal troubles amount to "election interference" as he campaigns in the 2024 presidential election.

It just illustrates who Trump is so well. First, he hears a term that he doesn't understand, like: "election interference". Like what he did when he incited his cult of morons to attack the capitol during January 6th to prevent Congress from certifying the election. Then, he takes that term that he doesn't understand and uses it improperly to insinuate that that's what's being done to him. This is either because he's too dumb to know what it means and too stubborn to look it up, or because he believes that about his cultists.

This is the exact same playbook he used for "puppet" during his debates with Hillary, "Fake news" when he was campaigning, "witch hunt" when he was being investigated for impeachable offenses, etc.

The man is a complete god damned moron, and yet somehow, he's managed to figure out that a significant number of Americans are even dumber than he is, and he has become their messiah. It's awe-inducing.

- What's the counter to this strategy of theirs, is there one?
That's not Trump not understanding what things mean, that's modern Republican messaging strategy. MTG literally just called a protest Tlaib led "an insurrection" last week. They water down words until they have no meaning anymore, and explicitly accuse the other side of what they're doing to feed the "both sides" narrative, and take weight off genuine accusations from Democrats or the media. They've been doing it for a while. They've also done it with "weaponization of government" recently and a few other words and phrases I can't think of right now. This is why people talk about Republicans being hypocrites and "projecting". They do it very much on purpose.
He's watering down the terms. "Fake news" is a perfect example. He completely stole the term and directed attention away from all the literally fake news websites created to help his election.
- Can't attribute that to Trump, news themselves watered down "fake news" when they started putting up fact checks that weren't very factfull
He's a moron's idea of an intelligent man.
You don't have to be smart to be a conman. And being not the brightest bulb in any room, might actually help Trump doing what he does best (conning people): ethical or non gullible people are very quickly put off by him, leaving him surrounded by unethical people who have no qualms enabling him (as long as they believe that they stand to gain from it) + gullible people that can be milked for all their worth. This is why it was such a smart move for Trump to leave the democratic party and become a republican: the republican party loves gullible voters + unethical fellow travellers. Basically the same reasoning as to why spam phishing mail is so obvious usually: scammers don't want to waste their time on non gullible people.
- This is why Jerry Falwell approached Ronald Reagan: they both loved money, power, and authority that those provide. Falwell provided Reagan with millions of followers who had been brainwashed from birth to blindly obey a male authority figure. Hence, the modern Republican Party: millions of "Christians" whose beliefs are diametrically opposed to the teachings of their God. Cognitive dissonance at it's finest.
He's genius is in his ability to market himself. the fact that he is a moron just means he's often stumbling on stupid shit that will resonate with morons, and he has that keen sense to take advantage of it.
Trump's defense strategy: "No, YOU!"

Great quote from a Slate op-ed: “You can often protect your client against the government, but you can never protect him against himself.”

Why is this colossal? The judge already ruled he committed fraud, are we pretending that he lied about his finances to convince ponies to let him brush their hair? What other intent could there be besides getting more money?

Now they don’t have to prove his intent. It just makes the case that much easier; no way the defense can raise questions about errors or revisions.
Not that it would matter much, but it basically eliminates any possibility of arguments around it, futile as they may be. Which means there’ll be no time wasted on it (or at most, less time wasted on it).
Just because something seems obvious doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary to prove it.
- Fair enough, time certainly is of the essence in these cases. We got about a year to put this man somewhere he can't hurt anyone else.
- Ianal but I expect this admission also materially harms any relief Trump may seek on appeal...
  Hard to claim it's a witch hunt when you admit guilt of the accused fraud under oath.
- Hunter neither holds nor is seeking public office, so who cares?

Stable genius strikes again.

So colossal, we didn't include it in the headline!

That's how I know this is a big nothing-burger.

Oh summary bot…

I read most of it. The summary in the post is all you need. The article just restates it a bunch and shares Twitter posts.

Of course? That's why he was talking the the lenders in the first place. He was trying to get a loan. If he intentionally falsified the information is another question, but of course he was trying to get a loan.

It seems obvious and therefore like not a big deal. but it was a critical step for the prosecution to make their argument. Basically "these statements were meant to get a loan". They've already demonstrated that the statements were false, and that they knew they were false. Final step is to show that they made the false statements to either get a more favorable loan- or because an honest statement wouldn't have succeeded.
- That's the thing about effective prosecutions. They break it down into tiny little baby steps, each of which are simple and true, and nobody can argue against them. Then they put them all together, and the case is ironclad.
When someone's on trial for a crime, the state often needs to prove the person intended to commit the crime. Trump saying he intended to use those documents to secure a loan proves intent.
The court has already established the documents contained knowingly false information, with the residence that Trump has lived in for decades being listed as 3x its actual size. Even conservatively, his property holdings were overestimated by $812 million. The judge ruled there was no way that could be considered an accident.
So the court has ruled that the documents are knowingly false, and now Trump stated he intended to use them to get a loan. No lawyer in the world could get Trump out of this one.
It’s the combination of inaccuracies and intent that is the key.
All these morons like yourself don’t understand shit about these court cases but you sure feel confident in sharing your uneducated opinions!
Do yourself a favor, check out Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner, legal AF, or the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s The Breakdown: the Trump indictment
Maybe you’ll actually realize what is going on instead of going by clickbait titles in the media
- I know enough (thanks to everyone who kindly replied) to know that everyone in the world save for those directly involved in the court case can safely assume Trump wanted a loan when he a applied for a loan. Sure, it's an important step for the lawyers, but it's so obvious that it's only newsworthy if they couldn't establish it.
  The article is a waste of time.
Yeah, I'm not sure what the news part about this is. This feels like it's building to something newsworthy but isn't itself newsworthy. It's not exactly shocking that the person applying for a loan wanted a loan.
- The lawyers and legal analysts think it's significant. While it seems obvious to us, it's part of proving their case step-by-step.
- Why don’t you go ahead and tell all of these legal analysts they’re wrong, I wonder how they would react to a layman such as yourself dripping with willful ignorance telling them what they say is meaningless and not shocking
  Like, it’s not about shock it’s about the court case. If you don’t understand it, maybe try and learn first. I’ll give you a jump start, check out Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner, Legal AF, or the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s The breakdown: the Trump indictment
  Maybe you’ll actually understand what is being done and why, informed by actual fucking lawyers instead of going by news articles and clickbait.

I'm sure his lawyers will just argue that all financial representations to a lender are intended to get the lender to lend you money. That's the whole point. Why else would you give them the info? The real problem will be getting him to directly admit intentionally fraud.

yawn Oh yeah, I’m sure it was colossal, like so many other times.

Donald must return 💪🏻☝🏻