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Donald Trump won’t make his own closing argument in his New York civil business fraud trial after his lawyers objected to the judge’s insistence that the former president would stick to “relevant” matters.

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    8 months ago

    We all knew he was going to use the time to ramble incoherently about unrelated stuff so I suppose it’s fine he’s not being allowed to do that but at the same time I really wanted to see him shoot himself in the foot under oath.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      33·
      8 months ago

      It’s better than that. If he was allowed to ramble incoherently, the judge may have been forced to declare a mistrial, or any judgement could have been overturned on appeal, citing bias.

      That his lawyers agreed that he wouldn’t follow decorum is the surprising thing, to me, and we should all be glad he’s not allowed to make any statements.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        8 months ago

        His lawyers probably don’t want to work for him any longer than necessary. If they were smart they got paid in advance for this trial.

        • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
          8·
          8 months ago

          In 5 years I wouldn’t be surprised to read about these current set of lawyers suing him for payment and him saying something like “they wanted a lot of money for being a bunch of losers. Why should I pay?” assuming he’s still alive and hasn’t died due to old age and cheese burgers by then.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      He has such a backlog of previous foot shots, they can’t hold him to answer for them all. Someone has to make him answer for anything, then we can watch him dance.