If Trump gets that $250 million fine being discussed- is it deductible on his taxes?
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“This is a very, very unfair trial, very. And I hope the public is watching it,”
Wow, I agree with Trump. Well, in the wider view, not the specifics.
In a fair trial he would’ve been slapped with contempt and in jail for it a long time ago.
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He pays taxes?
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Trump was then shown a statement from 2015 that showed he was losing millions of dollars on 40 Wall Street. Trump claimed the reason for that was because he was investing a lot of money into the property “fixing it up. We rebuilt the elevators, the lobbies.” Trump then motioned back to AG Letitia James and said, “She doesn’t know what 40 Wall Street is worth. She doesn’t even know where 40 Wall Street is. It’s going to do very well in the future.” (This caused James to briefly start laughing as her office is right next to 40 Wall Street).
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/donald-trump-testifies-in-ny
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“ In a separate line of questioning Monday, Trump distanced himself from a statement of financial condition from 2021, claiming he was busy at the time “keeping our country safe” from the likes of China and Russia.
“I was so busy in the White House,” Trump said. “My threshold was China, Russia and keeping our country safe.”
“Just for the record,” Wallace replied, “you weren’t president in 2021?”
“No, I wasn’t,” Trump acknowledged.”
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So many threats, so few actual meaningful consequences. Tired of watching these judges talk a good game, but then fumble the ball when it matters the most. Giving Trump chance after chance after chance, not too mention his own personal soapbox, is not working. Does Engoron think that if he gives him one more chance Trump will see the light and mend his ways?
The appropriate way to deal with Trump is the same way they dealt with Darrell Brooks - put him in an adjacent room with mic and video, and keep it muted whenever he’s not providing direct answers to questions. As soon he tries to grandstand, mute the motherfucker.
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There’s no jury, so Trump’s tantrums can’t do him any good. He’s just insulting the person who is deciding his fate.
Trump is fucked at that trial. His only “strategy” is to win something on appeal maybe.
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“” I think it just speaks to the breathtaking entitlement of these people that they don’t even think that other people are going to look at their past behavior to realize that they leave their kids home all the time,” she told Hasan.
Mary Trump noted that Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, “probably have lots of help that most people with young children don’t have.”
“And she also seems to have forgotten that she has a husband who can presumably take care of their children,” she added.”
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there’s a lot of wild statements in that, but this is so funny:
■■■■■ then went back to rambling about the disclaimer clause, stating that it “goes on forever.” The prosecutor responded, “That clause isn’t the only thing that goes on forever.”
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He definitely doesn’t seem to be trying to win within the rules and norms of the legal system. If he has a strategy at all it is to make himself exempt from the system by putting himself in a position where the rules no longer apply; i.e.
- Trump becomes President again pardons himself for all crimes
- Trump gets the Judge mad enough to do or say something that will give his team something to hang an appeal on, hoping for some help from MAGA-friendly allies down the road
- Trump foments a widespread uprising against any government that tries to hold him accountable to his actions, no matter the cost to the United States as a whole
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Quick query: Why are there no photos of him on the stand? We see him at the table with his play-lawyers but nothing else.
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If he has a strategy at all it is to make himself exempt from the system
i think you’re right… and also more simply… he doesn’t believe rules have ever applied to him:
a nice example was the last question he testified to:
asked what he thought when Allen Weisselberg pled guilty to fraud [and] if he was aware that Weisselberg was receiving compensation in the form of apartments (that formed the basis of his tax fraud charge). ■■■■■ said, “I don’t think that’s a big thing, is it?”
giving gifts off the books to help keep someone’s reported taxes low? no biggie. i think he even said something once to the effect of: people are stupid if they follow the rules.
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Background
The defendant has an established record of attempting to disrupt and delay the Court’s carefully considered trial date and pretrial schedule. Now, the defendant has timed his motion to stay these proceedings for maximum disruptive effect…
…As early as August 28, 2023, for instance, defense counsel informed the Court that the defendant would raise “executive immunity . . . with the Court likely this week or early next week, which is a very complex and sophisticated motion regarding whether or not this court would even have jurisdiction over this case. . . .” ECF No. 38 at 33-34. But the defendant did not file an immunity motion that week or the following. Instead, he waited more than a month before filing the promised pleading on October 5. See ECF No. 74. The defendant then waited another month to file the stay motion, late at night on November 1. Tellingly, earlier that same day, when defense counsel appeared at a hearing in the defendant’s criminal case in the Southern District of Florida, he used this Court’s March 4 trial date and pretrial schedule as an excuse to try to delay that trial—without disclosing that, within hours, he would file his stay motion here seeking to disrupt and delay the very deadlines in this case that he was using as a pretense.
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The thought experiment I would want to ask Trump’s lawyers: If you really believe in absolute presidential immunity, if current president Biden showed up with ten times as many Secret Service agents as Trump has and says, “I’m the President, so if I do it, it’s not illegal, and I order Trump and all his minions arrested, for national security reasons”, would they just nod and go along with it?
ETA: I don’t really want Biden to do this, though I think Trump should be jailed.
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That’s like… his whole deal. He’s always found ways to flout the law to his advantage, and he thinks it’s going to work here, too.
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I heard on the news that they allow a pool photographer to take some photos just before the judge begins the proceedings. Once he begins the proceedings, no photos.
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So let me get this straight:
At trial A he’s using trial B as a reason to delay trial A.
At trial B he’s using trial A as a reason to delay trial B.
If that doesn’t work then I suppose he’ll use trial C as a reason to delay both A and B and then trial D to delay C.
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At least the one box goes further. The headline is definitely “do you have any idea how little that narrows things down”
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