Trump is now being asked whether the valuations of a number of his properties are accurate.
Instead of answering yes or no, Trump is giving speeches about how and why he invested in various properties.
Again the judge asks Trump’s legal team to stop the speeches.
“I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can’t, I will,” Judge Engoron says.
The state is asking about a 2021 financial statement. Trump says he thinks it’s accurate - he hopes so.
“I was so busy in the White House,” he says, adding his focus was on “China” and “Russia”.
“For the record, you weren’t president in 2021 were you?” prosecutor Kevin Wallace asks.
Trump says no.
Bwahahaha! What an idjit he is.
I’m surprised he didn’t hang on the fact he was president for the first three weeks of the year
Well, we finally had a courtroom laugh moment. Prosecutor asked Trump about his involvement in financials from end of 2021. Trump said his focus at that time was on China and Russia and “keeping our country safe.” Courtroom laughed. Note: Trump wasn’t president in 2021.
I really want to see his reaction to the courtroom laughing at him. I think this is the first time he is experiencing direct humiliation.
I’m somewhat convinced that this moment was when he decided to run for President.
Man I miss Obama! I can’t think of another president that was more human.
He would never admit feeling humiliated, but I’d wager his entire personality is shaped around covering for his profound internalized shame and insecurity
Nah, I don’t think that’s true. The dude is insecure as fuck, he kinda laughs stuff off, but inside he’s fucking frothing at the mouth and then unleashes it on twitter. In response, he’ll just double down with his bullshit and play it off, but in private, he writes people down on his “list”.
Guarantee he thinks everyone laughed because he had such a great response to the question it made the prosecution look dumb.
Is this not perjury?
I was \ then.
No you weren’t.
No I wasn’t.
Are you allowed to blatantly lie and just walk it back when called out?
Perjury is more than just saying something factually wrong on the stand. Republicans spent years talking about how getting trump in a courtroom was a perjury trap because he would make a small mistake like recall the January 12 of 2011 was a Saturday and then they prosecution would be like, “no it wasn’t and now you go to jail because we hate America”. In reality, perjury basically takes someone knowingly and intentionally entering testimony that is false. Simply forgetting that he wasn’t president at the time would not qualify.
“I beseech you to control him if you can.”
This line is going to be EPIC when they make a Trump mini-series.
And it’s done.
The attorney general’s office says they have no further questions.
Donald Trump’s team declines to cross examine him. He is excused from the stand, as his testimony is now over.
Wait, his OWN TEAM didn’t have questions for him, their own client? It’s a civil trial, they could have asked him anything, he could have had the whole court room listening to aIl the stupid bullshit he was trying to say in answer to the state. No questions?
I… can’t fathom taking the stand in your own defense and then not having any questions from your own attorneys. How about: “did you do it?” “No, I did not.” Or “why is the da trying to railroad you.” “Magamagamaga”.
No questions is unfathomable.
No questions is unfathomable.
Not when your client has chronic diarrhea of the mouth
That’s a reason not to call him at all, not a reason to only let the state ask him questions.
His legal team is really bad, but they are not stupid. They can’t trust Trump to no go off script while under oath. They want him to spend as little time up there as possible before he perjures himself. That’s why they declined to cross examine him.
Thank you for your work.
Can I send you some popcorn or are you kinda sick of it now?
Is it normal for the defendant’s lawyers to not cross-examine him if he takes the stand?
No, if they’re allowed on the stand usually their own counsel would have them longer than opposing so they can try to control narrative.
Trump has just spent the past five minutes airing his frustrations about the New York fraud trial while on the stand.
He points his finger at New York Attorney General Letitia James as he yells that the “political hack back there” is carrying out the probe to hurt him.
At the end of the rant, Kevin Wallace of the attorney general’s team asks him, “You done?”
“Done,” Trump says, prompting some laughter from the courtroom.
