I love the sheaf of photocopied ‘press clippings’ he’s clutching.
What’s he gonna do - hand them out in Times Square?
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Yeah, nobody goes there anymore - way too crowded… 
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The judge has to be careful. If he sanctions Trump “too harshly,” especially in the first instance (e.g., throwing his putrid ass in jail), he runs the danger that some appeals court will side with Trump and throw out a conviction. I gather that sanctions, if applied, have to be incremental and “proportional.” What it will take to jail Trump for the duration of the trial will probably have to be something truly eggregious, and only after other (monetary) sanctions have bheen imposed–and flouted.
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He has also aggressively tried to put himself in the public eye since the 80s. Who hasn’t heard of that mook and his dirty deals?
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He read that " Little Boys Book on How to Look Like a Big Important Attorney ".
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And so is the GOP and the press.
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He looks like his new clown shoes hurt his feet.
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Was that the, Courtroom Demeanor for Dummies?
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This spectator told me that he was here not so much out of political or legal interest, but rather the pecuniary: he’s a professional poker player who planned on observing the body language, facial tics, and speech patterns of those involved in the case. He would then sell the information to professional gamblers seeking to bet on the outcome.
say what in the what now? is this really a thing. good god. I’d rather sift turds out of a litterbox.
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Watching the attorneys he’s chosen work in court is just surreal because, you guys, they’re not even trying to win at trial. Trump’s personality disorder makes it utterly impossible for them to do what you have to do when you’re choosing a jury for a personally unpopular client. Like, say, use voir dire to try to get their heads into the best place possible where they’re trying too hard to set aside their bias and actually giving him the benefit of unearned doubts.
That’s what you’ve got to do if you want get a jury of Donald J. Trump’s fellow New Yorkers to acquit him because they know who he is, they’ve lived with his scammy shit for decades and he can’t even hold a normal Republican share of the working class whites. And instead, they blew all their peremptories building a record on appeal based on this theory that no one who doesn’t love him can possibly be fair to him.
This isn’t simply an admission they can’t win a fair trial and know it because the evidence is only perfunctorily disputed. They’re building a record on appeal transparently based on political grievance rather than law, a record that will likely keep Trump out of jail through the campaign, but that only actually works if Trump is in a position to put corrupt political pressure on the courts after the election.
It’s one more example of how whatever his campaign’s plan for victory may be, it very ostentatiously does not seem to entail actually getting the most votes, whether popular or electoral. Sure hope Biden has better eyes into whatever they’re up to than I do.
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no, he saw a tik tok on how to look real mean and intimidating in court
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It sounds like I gotta catch up with the technology.
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a professional poker player who planned on observing the body language, facial tics, and speech patterns of those involved in the case. He would then sell the information to professional gamblers seeking to bet on the outcome.
This is a horror movie plot, right?
The poker player makes tons of money observing people’s personalities from their physical tells, but then one day fixes on Trump’s body language, facial tics, and speech patterns. Involuntarily, he is drawn in deeper and deeper until he finds it impossible to look away. When the intrepid reporter who had been in the adjoining seat returns from filing his story, the poker player is gone, and on the chair where he sat there is only a single playing card. It is a Jack of Diamonds, with a terrified expression, and wearing a Maga hat.
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practically their motto at this point, and the heart of what makes this so disturbing to see.
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I have strong opinions about trump but my training was as a scientist. The scientific method has no space for opinion or belief it says to follow the evidence where it leads. Data is the important part. If the evidence shows trump’s CFO did the fraud and paid off Stormy Daniels and broke the campaign finance law then he is guilty and not trump …but… if trump did those crimes…the 34 felony counts… then he should be found guilty. Follow the evidence
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From 2015
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I got dismissed for cause when I claimed an attachment to the scientific method. Neither the prosecutor or the defense like the idea of the null hypothesis.
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I see it more of a wacky heist movie - "one member of the public who decided to watch the proceedings, wearing an airplane pin and carrying a massive purse with a bronze clock on the outside. " He’s a poker player carrying a huge purse with a bronze clock stuck in it? Who wears airplane pins besides kids?
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We had two that were similar and popped their view as we thought we were winding up. Best I could figure is they heard the word rape and felt he was guilty without evidence. But it took myself and one other juror maybe an hour to back them down. They changed to acquit but one gave us a baleful warning that the defendant would be back in the courts again. I had no doubt that was true, but our job was what was in front of us, not predicting the future. I suspect the defendant was Mexican Mafia but that had no footing in this issue. I wouldn’t be surprised if the star witness was coerced to change his testimony on the stand. But there was nothing to hang a hat on for us.
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