Honestly I don't believe for a second that he actually has the money. I just don't think he can handle people (HIS people) knowing that he's flat fucking broke and at the end of his rope.
Monday we'll find out if Schrodinger's cash was in the box or not.
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One story I heard was that his lawyers have to come into the room in pairs, because he'll tell one lawyer Story A and the other one Story B.
He doesn't lie like an adult; he lies like a child.
This was actual testimony by Michael Cohen in one of the cases he testified in. Either the Trump or case org the stormy Daniels case
I tried to find a link but my Bing-Fu is weak.
I tried to look, too, but it was from a few years ago, and my results are flooded with articles about more recent Trump lies and lying lawyers, since he does it pretty much constantly.
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Heard recently that the Trump run is like a paper bag full of water. One of these days the bag will burst and everything will run out.
How long until they just admit that he's senile, but still tell people to vote for him to be the president?
Quote from Trump on truth social shown in the article:
THE OFTEN OVERTURNED POLITICAL HACK JUDGE ON THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT A.G. CASE
Can they not sue him for libel on this?
Apart from that it's hilarious that he still tries to claim he is paying for his presidential campaign himself.
The burden for libel or slander on a public official is pretty high. It pretty much has to go well past criticizing the government in an unambiguous way because government officials prosecuting people for criticizing them is Bad™
I doubt you'd see anything unless he claimed the judge did some specific act of moral turpitude on a specific occasion.
Yelling at the government about mismanagement and impropriety is just about as close as you can get to what the first amendment is for, in a nutshell.
The fact that he's wrong and a loathsome asshole doesn't change that he's allowed to say it.
Courts generally consider broad statements like "rigged" and "corrupt" to be opinions, which by themselves are not grounds for libel. Libel requires stating specific false facts.
For example, "The election was rigged" is an opinion. But "Two Georgia election workers threw away GOP ballots" is libel.
Ah OK, that's why he can keep doing it.
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Normal people would have been jailed for contempt of court for far less.
Contempt of court only applies to behavior in the courtroom, or when the judge has issued a specific order.
Trump isn't in the courtroom and was never banned from criticizing the judge or prosecutor, so there is no basis for contempt of court.
Trump isn't in the courtroom and was never banned from criticizing the judge or prosecutor
Right, because Judge Engoron intentionally left himself and the prosecutor out of his gag order.
Wisely so, because otherwise it would have been overturned. Everyone has a 1st Amendment right to criticize public officials like judges and prosecutors, but staff not so much.
It seems like bad precedent for a judge to sue a participant in the trial for what they're saying about the trial.
He could hold Trump in contempt, but I think he doesn't see the reason to bother with it, since he's already engaged in fucking Trump's world up pretty significantly.
Plus, if he did sue for libel, how would he ever get paid? It's like a never ending cycle.
Plus, if he did sue for libel, how would he ever get paid?
It's hardly even about getting paid at this point, I just want to see them rack up the high score. Left to his own devices I'm very confident that Trump can increase his own punitive damages beyond the actual GDP of the US.
since he’s already engaged in fucking Trump’s world up pretty significantly.
LOL 😄
That opens an attack avenue for appeal. Do nothing until he can't appeal it, then you blindside him with libel and take another 100 mill.
Read it again. There is no slanderous or libelous statement, as dumb as it is. Somebody was handling the wording very carefully.
"OFTEN OVERTURNED" - Haven't looked into it, but possible fact or subjective to the speaker's point of view at the very least.
"POLITICAL HACK JUDGE" - Derogatory at best, and not mentioning the specific names or false allegation.
"CORRUPT AG CASE" - Again, subjective, and referring the case, not the AG or Judge.
What a fucking idiot to invite more consternation, but unless you specifically say something like "Judge Tom Smith took bribe money to fuck over my case", there isn't a solid argument for Libel or Slander.
How is "Corrupt AG" not referring the AG?
this man lawyered
I mean, yeah, he “admitted” it… but knowing how much of a pathological liar he is, it’s also possible that he just wanted to look “successful” to his captive rubes.
Either way, he is absolutely creating real and serious problems for himself by saying that. And I love that for him.
If his sheep believe it maybe they'll stop giving him money though. Bonus.
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