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Thank you.Reality Check wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:24 am Adam Klasfeld is live blogging on Threads. Kise is up now with a slide show.
https://www.threads.net/@adamklasfeld/post/C19qYHLObsp
The Xitter link seems to have more posts:Kendra wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:51 amThank you.Reality Check wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:24 am Adam Klasfeld is live blogging on Threads. Kise is up now with a slide show.
https://www.threads.net/@adamklasfeld/post/C19qYHLObsp
Trump doesn't need to order this. His sycophants will do it for him without instruction. The problem is he won't decry their actions, or tell them to stop. He almost thanks them for their loyalty, and in that he enables the next one.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:03 am https://x.com/TristanSnell/status/17454 ... 58404?s=20Tristan Snell @TristanSnell wrote: BREAKING: Bomb threat at home of Judge Engoron, the judge presiding over the NY AG civil fraud case against Trump. Bomb squad on site now.
Closing arguments in the case are TODAY. Looks like an attempt to delay - but by whom?
Did Trump himself have anything to do with it?
Yeah, but with the *new* twitter, peeps like me who don't/won't have an account can't see them. Sigh.Reality Check wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:08 pmThe Xitter link seems to have more posts:Kendra wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:51 amThank you.Reality Check wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:24 am Adam Klasfeld is live blogging on Threads. Kise is up now with a slide show.
https://www.threads.net/@adamklasfeld/post/C19qYHLObsp
https:// twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1745453989330895236?s=20
Alina Habba, an attorney representing former President Donald Trump as well as Trump Organization executives, is now speaking in the defense's closing arguments.
Habba began her presentation by attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James and accusing her of a politically motivated prosecution of Trump.
"You are now being dragged through a political agenda," Habba said to Judge Arthur Engoron.
"If they wanted to commit fraud," Habba said of her clients, “why would they select Deutsche Bank, Zurich Insurance, some of the most sophisticated, highly regulated companies in the world? It makes no sense.”
Dear Alina, bless her heart, doesn't understand her clients are not advised of being intelligent fraudsters!Kendra wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:28 pm https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/ ... index.html]"If they wanted to commit fraud," Habba said of her clients, “why would they select Deutsche Bank, Zurich Insurance, some of the most sophisticated, highly regulated companies in the world? It makes no sense.”
Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba focused her arguments during the closing for her clients Jeff McConney and Allen Weisselberg, who are former executives at the Trump Organization and co-defendants in the case.
They're named as defendants because New York Attorney General Letitia James wants to get to Trump, Habba alleged.
"They're trying to intimidate my other clients to get to him," Habba said. “They want you to believe that if a human error exists, that is perfect, perfect for the Attorney General Ms. James to come after Trump. It is not."
Habba knocked the insurance fraud claims against McConney, the former Trump Organization controller, and Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer, in the attorney general’s complaint.
She noted that the insurance company in the complaint, Zurich, issued Trump’s company seven bonds in 2023.
Habba also added that McConney was being unfairly targeted when he relied on Mazars, Trump’s accounting firm, and is not himself an accountant.
“The man stood here and cried, and said he was tired of being bullied, tired of being subpoenaed, when all he did was his best work,” Habba said.
Donald Trump attorney Chris Kise is now asking Judge Arthur Engoron to reconsider letting the former president speak for two to three minutes.
Engoron asked Trump if he will promise to just comment on the facts in the case.
"Well I think your honor that I think this case goes outside just the facts," Trump responded, speaking from the defense table.
He then launched into a monologue.
“The facts are the financial statements are perfect, that there are no witnesses against us. The banks got all their money paid back. There were great loans," Trump continued.
Donald Trump, from the defense table, has been commenting on the case as closing arguments concluded, and Judge Arthur Engoron has not interrupted.
“The facts are the financial statements are perfect, that there are no witnesses against us. The banks got all their money paid back. There were great loans," Trump said.
“This was a political witch hunt,” Trump added, claiming that “we should receive damages."
“We have a situation where I’m an innocent man I’ve been persecuted by somebody running for office and I think you have to go outside the bounds," the former president said.
"What’s happened here sir is a fraud on me,” Trump said. "They want to make sure that I don't win again and this is partially election interference."
Raffi Melkonian
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If I were the judge, given the backstory here, I would sanction Kise.
Lisa Rubin
@lawofruby
·NEW: Chris Kise asks for permission to have Trump speak. Engoron, “Do you promise to just comment on the facts and the law?” Trump starts talking immediately without agreeing.
Disagree, I don't think it makes Engoron look like an idiot. I agree with chancery's thought:p0rtia wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:23 pm Looks like Endgoron got bulldozed. He asked fucked if he was willing to comply; fuckhead ignored his question and began the rant.
Makes Engoron look like an idiot. I suggest he add another couple hundred thou to the disgorgement.
I mean, whatever the amount is, fuckhead is going to claim Engoron hates him and penalized him because of that.
he might have wanted the record also to show that he gave them every opportunity to make their case, including leeway to which they were not entitled
IMO we are so far beyond Engoron -- or any other judge -- being perceived as not prostrating himself to allow fuckhead to walk all over him it isn't funny. This isn't "every opportunity", this is the ongoing disintegration of the judicial system.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:39 pmDisagree, I don't think it makes Engoron look like an idiot. I agree with chancery's thought:p0rtia wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:23 pm Looks like Endgoron got bulldozed. He asked fucked if he was willing to comply; fuckhead ignored his question and began the rant.
Makes Engoron look like an idiot. I suggest he add another couple hundred thou to the disgorgement.
I mean, whatever the amount is, fuckhead is going to claim Engoron hates him and penalized him because of that.he might have wanted the record also to show that he gave them every opportunity to make their case, including leeway to which they were not entitled
