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Courting Disaster
Author: BobR
Date: 05/29/2024 13:32:59
After what seems to have been a fairly long trial, in The People -v- TFG, the two sides gave their closing arguments yesterday, something which also took a while, and which also generated some controversy. The case is about how TFG and his "company" falsified bank records to hide the fact that TFG was paying off Stormy Daniels and the National Enquirer to hide his infidelity with the porn star (and others).
The defense tried to make it about something else:
Will that work? We'll see. There were other issues as well:
Yes, only the judge can say whether TFG should go to jail, if convicted.
The worst part about all of this is that win or lose, his cult members will see this as Jesus's trial and crucifixion. If he's acquitted, it will be a huge boost for him; if he loses, then he possibly loses a lot of the middle-of-the-roaders.
For now, though, we wait.
The defense tried to make it about something else:
It's the classic defense closing argument: My client didn't do it, ladies and gentlemen — but if he did do it, it wasn't intentional.
This is the argument that Donald Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, tried out on the hush-money jury in Manhattan on Tuesday.
Yes, Blanche spent the bulk of his arguments denying that Trump committed the charges he's on trial for.
[...]
Trump was not involved with any such conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, Blanche told jurors in great detail on Tuesday — during a three-hour summation where he walked them through a more than 180-part slideshow presentation before they begin deliberating Wednesday.
But if he was involved, there was no intent to commit fraud, Blanche argued. How could there be, he asked, when Trump freely and repeatedly admitted to reimbursing Cohen?
Will that work? We'll see. There were other issues as well:
Justice Juan Merchan scolded Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche for improperly invoking the threat of prison time facing the former president toward the end of the defense’s summation at the historic hush money trial.
“It’s simply not allowed. Period,” the judge boomed, saying Blanche should have known better as a former prosecutor and longtime defense attorney.
“It’s hard for me to imagine how that was accidental in any way.”
Blanche brought up the possibility Trump could go to prison toward the end of his summation.
Calling Blanche’s comment “outrageous,” the judge granted a request from prosecutors to instruct jurors to disregard it.
Yes, only the judge can say whether TFG should go to jail, if convicted.
The worst part about all of this is that win or lose, his cult members will see this as Jesus's trial and crucifixion. If he's acquitted, it will be a huge boost for him; if he loses, then he possibly loses a lot of the middle-of-the-roaders.
For now, though, we wait.
