Prosecution done with witness testimony for the day
The prosecution is finished with witness testimony for today. Judge Juan Merchan is now addressing the jury.
As Merchan read his lengthy instructions to the jury about avoiding news coverage and discussing the case, Trump was in a full conversation with Bove.
Merchan paused and said to them, "You done?"
Trump's lawyers are trying to use Daniels taunting Trump to argue for a mistrial. It'll fail, again.
Bold of them to assume Trump will even remember their name by the Autumn.This is the wildest thing to me. The most terminally unreliable client anyone has ever seen, AND they have never been paid yet.
https://youtu.be/Dx32b5igLwA?si=K0IRMPnY98j8-_k4Beat me to it, haha
Trump's lawyer said in opening arguments that they would prove it wasn't a reimbursement
Sooooo uhhhhhhh....
Defense is wanting Prosecution to order Cohen to shut the fuck up about the case, which they've done so repeatedly but can't actually control what he does
Hopefully him ranting on TikTok lives lately won't fuck the case up at all
I wouldn't mind if the judge put a gag order on all parties involved
Hopefully him ranting on TikTok lives lately won't fuck the case up at allThe jurors were instructed to not do shit like look up case info on tiktok so theoretically it shouldn't matter but they really need to stop.
Agreed. Sniping on social media and media tours can wait until after the trial. Quit tainting the jury pool.
Eh, the RNC is vowing to pay all his legal bills, so they're getting paid.
I thought anyone involved in a trial was not allowed to talk about the case until it ends (well, except for news media, court reporters, which could relay facts about the trial, but not give an opinion on either side?)
Either way, I would approve of a universal gag order. This is too important of a trial to have it stained by outside complications.
I thought anyone involved in a trial was not allowed to talk about the case until it ends (well, except for news media, court reporters, which could relay facts about the trial, but not give an opinion on either side?)
Either way, I would approve of a universal gag order. This is too important of a trial to have it stained by outside complications.
jurors aren't allowed to discuss it. anyone else can, but 99.9% of the time lawyers will tell their clients not to say anything.100% of them say that. It's just that only 99.9% of the clients actually listen.
100% of them say that. It's just that only 99.9% of the clients actually listen.
Yeah. It's not that Donnie CAN'T talk about it, it's just he can't attach jurors, witnesses, court staff, etc...And he's incapable of talking about the trial without doing that. He's also incapable of heeding sound legal advice.
100% of them say that. It's just that only 99.9% of the clients actually listen.
He's doing this because he wins either way. If the slaps on the wrist continue it looks like the judge is too scared to actually punish him. If he actually gets punished, it makes his unfair persecution claims seem more valid to his nut job voting base.He doesnt win if he is convicted and gets to stay in jail.
He's doing this because he wins either way. If the slaps on the wrist continue it looks like the judge is too scared to actually punish him. If he actually gets punished, it makes his unfair persecution claims seem more valid to his nut job voting base.
I think Trump actually dreads the idea of going to a real-life jail and is just bluffing hoping the judge is too chickenshit to actually go through with it.
And unfortunately he's right as Merchan has already demonstrated that with his asinine "you're the former POTUS, you may be POTUS again, I really don't want to put you in jail".Any defendant who hears a judge say that and thinks for a second that theres no way they go to jail is a fool.
It's like playing poker with your hand turned backwards so everybody can see the cards you have.
He lost all leverage when he made that statement.
And unfortunately he's right as Merchan has already demonstrated that with his asinine "you're the former POTUS, you may be POTUS again, I really don't want to put you in jail".Maybe a new trial might be preferable so we can get a new judge and a jury that doesn't have a MAGA plant in it.
It's like playing poker with your hand turned backwards so everybody can see the cards you have.
He lost all leverage when he made that statement.
Just put him in a separate room with a screen to watch the trial and a headset to communicate with his defense team.So you want them to weight the case in favor of the defense?
So you want them to weight the case in favor of the defense?
No, I was talking about him influencing the witnesses and the jury while he's in the same room.Its definitely a problem either way. Which is why Trump is doing it and also why Judge Merchan says things like I dont want to put you in jail.
I just didn't take the violating the gag order consequences into account. My bad, in retrospect it does look like I want that, which is as far from the truth as it can be.
Trump has to be allowed to hang himself here.
Would him taking the stand do the trick?That would definitely put him over the top. But this is a criminal trial not one of his plethora of civil cases.
They have to see the misbehavior. And the failure of the judges attempts to stop it.
Then you throw him in the clink when hes not in court.
Any defendant who hears a judge say that and thinks for a second that theres no way they go to jail is a fool.
Maybe a new trial might be preferable so we can get a new judge and a jury that doesn't have a MAGA plant in it.
Former President Donald Trump may face an IRS bill in excess of $100 million after a government audit indicates he double-dipped on tax losses tied to a Chicago skyscraper, according to a report by The New York Times and ProPublica that drew on a yearslong audit and public filings.
The tax records cited by the report indicate that Trump twice deducted losses on the Trump International Hotel and Tower, which opened in 2009 near the banks of the Chicago River that cuts through that citys downtown.
The report said Trump initially reported losses of $658 million in his 2008 filings under the premise that the property fit the IRS definition of being worthless because condominium sales were disappointing and retail space went unfilled amid a deep U.S. recession.
But in 2010, the published report said, Trump transferred the ownership of the property to a different holding company that he also controlled, using the move to save money on taxes by reporting an additional $168 million in losses over the next decade on the same property.
It's possible Merchan puts him in jail during or after the trial.
I do see him initially being held during breaks, and if he continues, being jail for two days. Then each violation above that is more time.
My guy, you and I both have seen how ridiculously lenient the judicial system has been to Donald Trump. Even before he was POTUS he skated by on being a rich white male, post Presidency it's that x100. The only fools are those who think Trump will be held to the same standards as anybody else when we've literally already seen that's not the case.
I'm hoping Merchan finds his spine and ends Trump's bullshit, however even Chutkan has given Trump leniency I doubt she'd give anyone else.
I dunno, Merchan has been one of the most fair judges Trump has had, he's just starting to drop the ball now that Trump's trying to call his bluff on jailing him. Yeah it's ridiculous that a dude who only gets their news from Trump Social and Twitter is on the jury, that does worry me. I guess all we can do is hope they have some sort of integrity.
Seriously, when is the IRS going to start charging this asshole for fraud?
It's stuff like that which is why the GOP was sooooo against Biden's hiring of "80000 new IRS employees."Exactly. They don't need IRS agents to go after you and I, like the GOP kept squawking. It's to go after the ultra rich than can afford lawyers to concoct complex schemes and fight hard against the government trying to hold them accountable.
By mapping audit costs and returns across the income spectrum, he continued, We saw very clear evidence that the return from audits at the top of the income distribution really exceeded by quite a bit the returns at the bottom of the income distribution. With the top 10 percent of earners, they found, audits have the potential to return more than $12 for each $1 spent.