After weeks of testimony, lawyers for Donald Trump and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office will make their closing arguments to the jury today in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president. For the DA’s office, it will be a chance to bring the witnesses’ statements into context, and tie what the jury has heard to the crimes with which Trump is charged.
FRIST!
Meanwhile……
Donald Trump has already lost two defamation lawsuits brought against him by E. Jean Carroll, and there could be another one on the way. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump once again targeted Carroll and the judges who awarded her $83 million in her most recent defamation case. Though he didn’t refer to Carroll by name, it was clear she is the “woman” he once again called a liar in his post, which also targeted “the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country.” The post quickly caught the attention of Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who indicated that her team is considering more legal action against the former president amid his continued attacks against Carroll. “We have said several times since the last jury verdict in January that all options were on the table. And that remains true today—all options are on the table,” Kaplan said in a statement to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.
Representing E. Jean Carroll in defamation lawsuits against Donald Trump is officially a cottage industry.
Sunday night, and it is time for the TPM pre-game show.
Fish in a barrel.
ETA. The idiot can’t keep his mouth shut. Probably just blew up his appeal.
Wouldn’t that be grand?
More like a lifetime annuity.
I wonder of Josh K. is already on line at the courthouse to get a place in the overflow room.
Deadlocked jury, mistrial by Thursday is my prediction. Unfortunately. There is bound to be one trumpanzee in the jury room.
Oh Maggie is going to be in trouble again, a disloyal stenographer
The New York Times this afternoon offered another line we might get from Trump’s lawyers tomorrow: Where’s Allen Weisselberg? The literal answer to that question is: in jail. He’s in Rikers serving a sentence for perjury in a separate case. But he was one person with knowledge of the Cohen-repayment scheme we didn’t hear from during the trial. The defense, the Times says, will lean hard on prompting the jury to wonder what he might have had to say, had he been there.
If this is the defense’s closing arguments ‘strategy’, then they better get ready for a guilty verdict.
Well why didn’t the defense call him them?
It’s a glorious thing to see, isn’t it?
Can the prosecutors include something in their closing statement to the effect of “the defense would have you believe that Allen Weisselberg would refute all of Michael Cohen’s claims, but they refuse to release him from his non-disclosure agreement that would cost him millions for verifying Cohen’s testimony.”
He’s under an NDA that would cost him his pension to testify truthfully, so his answer to every question would be to plead the 5th.
But but but I saw a fox news poll saying nobody could afford to go on vacation. Who to believe a fox poll or my lying eyes???
Flights delayed and canceled as Memorial Day weekend travel shatters records | Watch (msn.com)
Many Americans staying home this summer, new Fox poll finds (msn.com)
Jury might deadlock, but there’s no way in hell Merchan is ruling a mistrial as soon as Thursday.
