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AndyinPA wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:36 pm Anyone think he's aware enough to realize the dumbest thing he ever did was come down that escalator?

Yoo said ...



"But that political message will tube and tank his ability to prevail at all in this legal proceeding"

NewMexGirl wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:28 am The quality of Trump’s legal representation just keeps going down. Kise and Habba are primarily media figures and have been, at least in Kise’s case, for a long time. Unfortunately for tfg, courts don’t seem to give a rat’s ass if your attorney is extremely good looking (Habba) or a well-known political figure who even ran for the Senate in the late nineties (Kise).

Volkonski wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:59 am Trump is back to a white shirt and red tie today.

Donald Trump remains engaged with the trial testimony Tuesday, sitting at the defense table with attorneys Chris Kise and Alina Habba. The former president has continued to review documents at the table and on the screen in front of him and leaning over often to speak to the lawyers.

Kevin Wallace, an attorney for the New York attorney general, spent Tuesday morning methodically reviewing Trump's annual statements of financial condition and Mazars accounting engagement letters for 2012 through 2016 with former Mazars accounting executive Donald Bender, belaboring the point that the Trump Organization provided supporting data that backed Trump's financial statements and each year certified that they understood it was Trump Organization's duty to provide accurate information.

Eric Trump, a co-defendant, also appears engaged scanning exhibits that appear on the screen and keeping a steady eye on Bender as he testifies. He's also biting his nails.

Trump's decision to appear in court — his appearance is not required in this civil case — stems from how the accusations strike at what Trump values the most: his business and his brand, CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports.

Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney

Trump, on Truth Social, is attacking Judge Engoron's *clerk," — who is literally in the courtroom with him — while calling her "Chuck Schumer's girlfriend" and posting a link to her Instagram account.

I suspect this will be an exhibit in some gag order arguments.

NewMexGirl wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:28 am The quality of Trump’s legal representation just keeps going down. Kise and Habba are primarily media figures and have been, at least in Kise’s case, for a long time. Unfortunately for tfg, courts don’t seem to give a rat’s ass if your attorney is extremely good looking (Habba) or a well-known political figure who even ran for the Senate in the late nineties (Kise).

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 12:50 pm

NewMexGirl wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:28 am The quality of Trump’s legal representation just keeps going down. Kise and Habba are primarily media figures and have been, at least in Kise’s case, for a long time. Unfortunately for tfg, courts don’t seem to give a rat’s ass if your attorney is extremely good looking (Habba) or a well-known political figure who even ran for the Senate in the late nineties (Kise).

Part of Trump’s problem is that he has a history of not following his lawyers’ advice, and insisting on pursuing failed or likely-to-fail legal strategies. The best lawyers in the world doing the best lawyering in the world can only do so much.

Not saying Habba and Kise should necessarily get a pass, but to the extent they’re hamstrung by the decisions that are the client’s to make, they’ve got to play the hand they were dealt.

RVInit wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 10:14 am I motion to add "tube and tank" to our Fogbow lexicon. Frankly, I think it should be spread far and wide.

After Donald Trump's former longtime accountant Donald Bender's examination by the New York attorney general's legal team concluded, the court went into lunch break.

Bender will face cross examination after the court resumes.

Judge Arthur Engoron warned the defense they need to come back from the break in a timely fashion. “If you're not here I'm starting anyway," he said.

Engoron made jokes throughout the proceedings. He started the day by joking about one of his court officers after he yelled for order in the court. Engoron said, "The man you just heard, I affectionately call Tommy, and his next gig is no doubtfully going to be the at the metropolitan opera."

Trump, though, was not joking when as exited the courtroom for the lunch break, complaining once again about the trial. “This is a rigged trial. It’s a fraudulent trial. The attorney general is a fraud and we have to expose her as that. You see what’s going on. It’s a rigged deal.”

Shortly before a lunch break, Trump circulated a false rumor about Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, which traces its origins to a now-shuttered satirical website

The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump's civil fraud trial on Tuesday issued a gag order after the former president attacked his clerk by name and shared her image on social media.

“Personal attacks on members on my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate, and I won't tolerate it [in my courtroom],” said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron.

He added later to "consider this a gag order for all parties from posting about any members of my staff."