Fiascoist wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 3:03 pm
Just finished reading the notes of Don Jr.'s testimony today. Apparently the judge is allowing in anything the defendant wants to introduce, which is mostly irrelevant testimony and documents. My experience in Judge trials is when you are winning every argument and every document comes in, you have lost, and lost big time. The judge just wants to make it appeal proof. I had to explain that to clients on more than one occasion, but it's never fun. You end up sitting there, making and losing objection after objection. (I once got a judge to let me just raise my hand for him to note and overrule my objection. It took too long to stand every time and state it on the record.)
What the defense is doing is not lawyering, it's simply performance art for one person and the one person in question isn't the judge.
It seemed like it all promo videos today. Like a time share presentation. I think the judge will let everything in to, as you say, appeal-proof it. I think he even said as much, iirc. It might dazzle a jury, but the Trumps love their blankie of a lush video saying how wonderful their stuff is. I can see how winning would feel like losing when you have to sit there and listen to all that garbage that's discussed and admitted. I can take the long view, though! Winning! We'll be happy to sue y'all into oblivion, Jr.
Personal aside, Jr mentioned Doonbeg, in Ireland. As it happens I visited there in June 2014. Trump bought it in Feb 2014, so I doubt they had done much as far as physical changes. I didn't even know it was a Trump property - no signage, etc (I just went back through my photos to double check). It was a lovely property in a gorgeous setting; it appears on the website now to look just as it did when I was there - so at least it hasn't (at least on the photos available) trumpified it into tackiness. Idk about the golf course as I don't play golf, but from the little I saw it looked just like the other (nearby, non-trump) course the rest of my family was playing).
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