I think he meant people who do have representation, but still chose to do the closing argument themselves. That one should be a lot more rare, I think.
It goes further than that. Court rules dictate that clients are not allowed to make closing arguments if they have an actual lawyer working the case. Trump would have to fire his lawyers and represent himself or maybe get permission from the judge.
In this case the judge said - ok you can make closing arguments but only for appropriate topics, and you can't violate the limited gag order protecting court staff. That was unacceptable to Trump.
"Falls apart"? Was it really ever together in the first place? You've got a person known to be a chronic liar, he's physically incapable of putting together two sentences that aren't full of lies and/or threats, and having him deliver a speech in a setting in which lying or threatening will get you punished, who the hell thought that was going to be a good idea?
I don't think that anybody thought that would be a good idea. But the morally bankrupt, traitorous donkeys he hired figured that he was just going to override them anyway, so they brayed "yea" to the idea of Trump defending himself. I mean, what the fuck? They already got paid upfront anyway, right?
who the hell thought that was going to be a good idea?
I mean, I thought it was a great idea when I heard it. After all, what better way to get himself in even more trouble with the law than letting him run his lying mouth to a judge?
Trump is the most successful looser in history! He's so good at loosing even if he wins he loses anyways. What a marvelous specimen of the human species.
Trump is one of the most embarrassing humans to have ever disgraced this earth. I often wish I lacked any self awareness so I could blindly hack my way through life. But my daddy wasn't rich so I was forced to be painfully aware of my actions to this very day
Plenty of people with rich daddies who are aware of their own failings and even some who care about others. You might have been a decent person even with a rich father. Trump chooses to be the sack of dysentery that he is.
Two sections from the article:
"“Closing arguments are for an advocate to comment on the evidence presented, on the relevant law, and on how the latter applies to the former to justify the result sought. Such arguments may not be used to testify, to introduce new evidence, to make a campaign speech, or to comment on irrelevant matters,” Engoron emailed Trump’s legal team on Tuesday afternoon." Ha ha
and
The judge’s warnings came after months of Trump’s unhinged speeches outside the courtroom and social media posts in which the billionaire labeled the judge a leftist hack, insulted the judge’s law clerk, and dismissed the entire trial as an empty political persecution." Who is "the billionaire" in this sentence? LoL
He has always just been a trust fund kid, pretending to be a business magnate. He had enough money via inheritance to fly around in a private jet, wear terribly fitting suits, make appearances wherever he could and claim to be wildly successful. It was all an act.
This is unrelated, because nobody is surprised by this development.
I'm sure it's partly the choice of photo, but just in the last two years, Trump is really starting to look old. Like fucking hell, I don't see how Republicans can complain about Joe Biden's age when that's their guy.
I can only hope his heart is about 20 years older than he looks.
Stress and anxiety, probably. He never felt it before, since he had daddy's money and didn't actually care about being the President before he was elected the first time, or about doing a good job after he was sworn in. But then he was charged in four separate courtrooms, and all of his legal defenses keep dropping like flies, so I would bet this is all eating away at him. He's going the way of Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, but the grail is a McDonald's cup full of indictments.
I noticed that his bronzer utilization has increased pretty steadily. If you ever see a shot of him wearing no makeup - sometimes they get one when he’s golfing yet again - he looks like a walking corpse.
What will never cease to amaze me is how these hyper-macho maga types have so completely dedicated their very lives to a cake-level makeup wearing NYC landlord billionaire who says that military vets are suckers for joining, that POWs should be dismissed as useless, and who eats his steaks well done with ketchup and would never touch a beer. All of that flag waving macho bullshit is really just bullshit for show. It literally doesn’t matter to them.
What finally made it click for me is that his supporters don't care about policy, outcomes, Trump's personal life, his many obvious failings, his hatred of them and things they claim to stand for, etc. . They only care about "hurting the right people." As long as Trump says Mexicans are rapists, antifa are terrorists, Democrats are evil, etc. , his supporters will fall on line. They view society as a zero-sum game, as a team sport. As long as "they" are hurting you must be doing better. It doesn't matter if the economy and everything do a nose dive as long as "they" get hurt by it more. It's politics of hate and vindictiveness.
Not to mention he believes that physical exercise drains your body of life and he eats like shit. The only silver lining in all of this is that even if Trump wins and creates an American dictatorship, he's not likely to live long anyways. Though I'm sure somebody else will be in line right behind him to take his place.
"After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, “You are going to die young because of this.”
It was the judge who set the deadline (and extended it 3 times). Eventually he basically said "Ok, you haven't agreed to the very basic, minimal times that all closing arguments must adhere to. Tough shit."
A bit of history. Trump's legal mentor was Roy Cohn. Cohn was Joe McCarthy's hatchet man. Cohn had a reputation as one of the most vicious pitbulls in New York legal circles. Cohn was also gay, and when he was dying of AIDS Trump dropped him like a hot potato.
I saw a family portrait of him with Melania and Barron from when his son was about six years old. Besides the ugly solid gold wallpaper, the thing that boggled my mind was that his kid was dressed in a little business suit and sitting in a little toy Mercedes luxury car. No space ships or jet planes for this lad.
Barron Trump turns 18 in March. I'm guessing the press are salivating over it because he'll finally be fair game and they will all be jumping over each other trying to get an interview to see what he'll say about his father.
Possibly, but he's also apparently been mostly raised by Melania without Donald's involvement and we have no idea of the ways she might have been poisoning her son against him.
I feel sorry for the kid, because there's no way he'll be able to have any kind of normal interaction with anyone. Porn star mom and psycho dad? Uncle/brothers like Eric and Fredo? When Ivanka is the most down to earth person you know...I can't even complete the sentence.
[off topic and NSFW] Netflix show 'Loudermilk' is about an addiction therapist. He's leading a group and one of the patients says that he was in a successful band back in the 1990s.
Another patient asks him about groupies. "Ever get a double blowjob? You know, one girl and two dudes?"
