That refrigerant is free on Tuesdays.
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Robert DeNiro is a master performer.
“Donald Trump is a clown.”
–Robert DeNiro, 2024
In Medieval times, clowns were men who engaged in bizarre behavior in order to attract attention.
Trump is a clown with orange face.
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Um no, just no. A river, creek, or storm channel is stationary. A weather pattern is not. I was reminded of this the other day when my city in St Louis County was in a red warning box on the weather map. Most of the time the storms go south of me, or north of me, this time we got clipped. Not in the worst part of the storm, but still it was scarry.
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A plausible defense would have focused on reasonable doubt around the intention of the conspiracy, not maximal denialism over every last dumb detail.
And to be fair, the plausible defense still would not have worked. That man is guilty, guilty, guilty. The defense is a show, not a real effort to demonstrate innocence.
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Were they all paying attention when he read them the first time?
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The ones that want to vote for a criminal were planning to vote for him anyway.
The only voters that actually matter are the 10-20% of mushy middle voters, and only the ones from the swing states, that somehow can quote every bit of celebrity gossip and sports stats but can’t be bothered to pay attention to anything happening in government until like mid October.
For them the fact that the news media will be able to call him a convicted criminal is a big deal. The current guess is that there is a swing of 3-6% of voters that are both undecided and don’t think they could vote for a “criminal”. That’s somewhere around 1/4th of the people that matter. A criminal conviction may jazz up Trump’s base but they can’t vote louder or harder than everyone else. A criminal conviction does not help him with everyone else – even if its just a criminal conviction on falsifying business records to interfere with an election and not retention and dissemination of classified documents or a large scale conspiracy against the united states to overthrow the election.
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I wonder which one of Donnie’s support staff has to keep him busy sitting there. Let me know when one of the staffers sticks an all day sucker in his mouth.
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As for me, I am on the side of justice.
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Josh K
It Will Be a While
Before the jury returns to deliberations.
Merchan says that he will read pages 6 to 35 of the jury instructions. The instructions are available here.
Steinglass estimated on Wednesday that the testimony readback will take around 30 minutes. That will be done by a court reporter.
The jurors also say via a note that they want to be provided with headphones so they can rehear audio evidence contained on the laptop.
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This whole laptop thing is a bad idea.
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You think it will distract the jury and lead them astray in some way?
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So he’s telling us that he now has a drinking problem in addition to his crack habit?
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These tornadoes are being amped up by excessive heat, so the chances of getting hit increase. We’re increasing the odds, but he was also unlucky. It happens.
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In the short term. There’s a US-Mexico treaty about that.
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NYT Liveblog:
Yesterday, the judge noted that the laptop jurors are using to view the evidence is not equipped with Wi-Fi, and he just did it again, on the record, and had both parties acknowledge that they’d heard him.
If the laptop had Wi-Fi, the jurors would have access to information about the case during deliberations that they are not supposed to have. In making sure the point about the Wi-Fi was on the record, Justice Merchan has protected himself from either side making an issue out of it in an appeal.
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Lawyers are supposed to represent their clients to the best of their ability correct?
Seems about right then
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The jurors also say via a note that they want to be provided with headphones so they can rehear audio evidence contained on the laptop.
So for health reasons each juror will have to be provided a set of earphones, and they will listen in turn to the laptop I assume. And none of the other jurors can be talking while each juror listens in turn.
I’m wondering why a loudspeaker attached to the laptop wouldn’t be a better solution, so all could listen simultaneously, assuming the laptop’s internal speaker volume is not loud enough.
Added: I see a later update includes the availability of speakers.
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And there are more structures to hit as land development continuously increases the extent and density of infrastructure.
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1st amendment restricts what the government can do. Her employer is not the government.
They are allowed to set policy around speech in the workplace, which you and your blurb fail to mention is where she made the comments that violated their policy, as well as that she had been warned for the same once already.
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