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"[Judge Merchan] made rulings that makes it very difficult to testify. Anything I did, anything I did in the past, they can bring everything up, and you know what, I've had a great past but anything."
Link to tweet
PatSeg
(48,462 posts)CrispyQ
(36,812 posts)The media isn't reporting on all the verbal stumbles & incoherent ramblings of this guy. It's alarming how cavalier they are about him to get ratings but I guess if NBC is paying you mid-six figures you say (or don't say) what they want.
PatSeg
(48,462 posts)Pretty much anything that comes out of his mouth is incoherent. I'm afraid that the media has just started to accept that as normal for Trump. Clearly there is a different standard for him than anyone else.
CrispyQ
(36,812 posts)In all things, including accountability & justice.
PatSeg
(48,462 posts)The guy's been getting a pass his entire life. Hopefully, his dumb luck is running out.
Prairie Gates
(1,265 posts)Enter: I've had a great past
Possible Interpretations:
1. I am a good person who has lived an upright life.
2. I have many wonderful experience of various kinds. I've tasted life's every flower, which they would besmirch with their evil word-twisting.
3. Listen buddy, I fucked everything that moved fuh a lot of years (haha guys amirite or what), and if I testify they'll have me siting on the edge of the bed in my satin robe again, gnaw mean?
There's more. I just picked the top three for relevance.
PatSeg
(48,462 posts)Gee, I'm kinda leaning toward #3!
Siwsan
(26,507 posts)"Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes?" asked Trump. "I work hard, I'm an honorable person."
https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-why-do-i-have-to-repent-or-ask-for-forgiveness-if-i-am-not-making-mistakes-video.html
Pretty incredible the crap that actually comes out of his mouth. "I'm an honorable person."
edhopper
(34,022 posts)and nobody calls him on it.
PatSeg
(48,462 posts)he just keeps interrupting and unfortunately, they let him.
Arne
(2,665 posts)NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Besides, the entire idiocy is readily available online.
Arne
(2,665 posts)I meant Golden Sneakers.
peggysue2
(10,948 posts)Don the Con in living color!
global1
(25,417 posts)More crimes? Is that why you didn't take the stand?
Any normal person that says he's innocent, good and honorable - would want to clear his name and get all these cases behind them as soon as possible.
You delay tactics and lack of wanting to testify to clear your name - says to me that you have a lot to hide and you're guilty.
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Will shut up and make the prosecution prove their case.
Emphasis on shutting up.
Solly Mack
(90,903 posts)magicarpet
(14,805 posts)The tail is like a wiper blade....
https://youtube.com/shorts/IlQtwOwvBNo?si=2J5RZNrXCgjs-D82
Solly Mack
(90,903 posts)shit.
That's a normal hippo poo. When they have an upset tummy, it shoots out like a blood-filled tick popping.
SoFlaBro
(2,329 posts)bluesbassman
(19,429 posts)Every thing he says is designed to distract, obfuscate, and confuse.
Bristlecone
(10,221 posts)He is such a clown. How people buy his bs is beyond me.
ProfessorGAC
(66,171 posts)First, I'm not sure that non-material questions would be allowed.
Besides that, that'd how it works when one is a criminal defendant. Questions about character just might come up.
ProudMNDemocrat
(17,286 posts)A "GREAT past" for....
Bankrupting your casinos
Cheating on your wives
Cheating on your taxes
Running a FRAUDULENT Charity and University
Sexually assaulting women
Lying about everything
Stiffing contractors for work done on your dumps
So keep telling your gullible cult that you had a "GREAT past"!
demmiblue
(37,082 posts)In the trump case however, more than half of the past bad acts were precluded from being raised on cross with Trump had he elected to testify, and the DA decided to eliminate the Karen McDougal testimony likely for the same "past bad acts will prejudice the jury" reasons.
Link to tweet
Prairie Gates
(1,265 posts)Why does he talk like he learned English through an online translator?
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Because they can't speak from a place of self-awareness. They don't have a core being inside, so they have to rig up a simulacrum of one gleaned from bits and pieces 'borrowed' from what they see normal people getting good results from; however, they don't have any empathy to understand why those behaviours are welcome or acceptable. They just see 'what works,' and repeat it to get what they want.
This is why so many people find someone with glib charm unnerving, or, more often, unnerving after prolonged contact. At first they seem normal and engaging. But then the way they say things, and when, and where... It's...off, somehow, and winds up coming across as bizarre, false and manipulative.
Because it is.
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)Like expecting direct, truthful answers to any and all questions asked of the Tangerine Toddler.
That's the real problem with the judge: TSF can't believe the prosecutors and judge won't let him lie with impunity to protect his fee-fees and fragile ego. Why, it isn't to be borne! Insufferable conceit!
dalton99a
(82,127 posts)littlemissmartypants
(23,234 posts)Everything that follows those two words will be a string of compulsive lies.
Life's too short to waste time on nonsense.
Raven123
(5,116 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,717 posts)On Cross-examination, adversarial counsel is LIMITED TO the topics raised on Direct Examination.
Therefore, if Trump's attorneys didn't bring up his past personal life, the Prosecutors can't ask those questions on Cross.
spanone
(136,264 posts)budkin
(6,790 posts)...but anything.