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He beat anything on cable news today.
GoodRaisin
(8,991 posts)ancianita
(36,528 posts)DaBronx
(312 posts)Fully engaged in his show tonight.
SouthBayDem
(32,195 posts)just uploaded by MSNBC a few minutes ago:
ancianita
(36,528 posts)riversedge
(70,966 posts)underpants
(183,593 posts)jrthin
(4,846 posts)H2O Man
(73,995 posts)Lawrence is the best, in my opinion.
3catwoman3
(24,336 posts)Lawrence is having entirely too much fun with this. I love his deadly, devastating but restrained and dignified contempt.
ShazzieB
(16,984 posts)He's been outdoing himself lately with his commentary on the trial. And I am so here for it!
Pompoy
(130 posts)Telling Trump's lawyer how bad at their job they were.
wnylib
(22,241 posts)Count on Trump to use attorney incompetence in his appeal. He will say that, since the judge had to object on occasions when his own attorneys did not, that he did not have competent representation.
I am 100% sure that the Orange Turd insisted that his attorney open with a complete denial of ever having sex with Daniels. Trump's reasoning would be, "No sex, therefore no hush money payment and no juggling of the books." He thought that the denial of sex would nullify the charges completely.
His lawyers would probably have known that the denial would mean testimony from Daniels to refute it. He expected that his attorney would be able to embarrass and denigrate her like his attorneys who went after Fani. But it backfired and made the Orange Turd look bad, not Stormy.
But, as with everyone else in every other field, the OT knows more about legal strategy and the law than lawyers do, right?
Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)And then will use their incompetence as a reason to appeal.
Trump's lying, harassment and threatening behavior has been a successful strategy in the past.
But not working so well this time.
my opinion, the lawyers are the stupid ones for following his advice and lead. Dump is an orange turd with NO legal training. Any lawyer who does what the Turd tells them is worthless. in my view.
Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)Or get a mistrial for lack of adequate lawyering.
Kaleva
(36,589 posts)Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)They are supposed to be seasoned and excellent attorneys.
We could do the job better than they could.
At the very least we wouldn't piss off the judge every hour of every day.
ancianita
(36,528 posts)in its handling of the argument/witness sequencing, that the defense has been easily outmatched.
TSExile
(3,147 posts)You're both right!! I admit that I cracked up every time Lawrence uttered "orange turd" when he read the court transcript. We're all still in the third grade, I guess.
ancianita
(36,528 posts)We only laugh at and with Lawrence because we know we're winning the national case against the turd and his turd rate base.
Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)Yes the prosecution is excellent.
But the judge in this case has to keep admonishing the Trump attorneys.
In some cases he even has to step in and do their jobs for them.
And a witness with a high school education and no legal training can make mincemeat
out of Trump's attorneys.
The Trump attorneys are bad, very bad.
ancianita
(36,528 posts)More past practice -- which has not helped them with THIS client in THIS case.
Which makes THIS trial all the more a joy to behold, because Blanche will lead tsf's next case as a beaten lawyer before the Smith team.
Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)Trump destroys everything he touches.
ancianita
(36,528 posts)defend the devil.
Looking forward to the many movies and books about the Biden/Harris era.
TSExile
(3,147 posts)Right???
Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)ariadne0614
(1,761 posts). . .it crossed my mind that the OTs attorneys only agreed to do it his way if he signed a waiver going in.
Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)And not mount an adequate defense.
They put themselves in a no win situation, I would not put that in writing.
I guess it occurred to me because way back in the late 80s, my divorce lawyer required that I sign some sort of waiver, promising not to ever sue him for not making the maximum demands he thought I was entitled to.
Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)And even if he did, he would not honor it.
ecstatic
(32,928 posts)His behavior and crazy demands won't magically improve during an appeal.
Irish_Dem
(50,363 posts)That is what he wants.
ancianita
(36,528 posts)Why he believes he knows better than his lawyers is his 'experience' with over 4,000 suits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump
wnylib
(22,241 posts)as he did when sent to a military a academy by his parents when they could no longer handle him. Two Washington Post reporters wrote a book on Trump's background during the 2016 campaign. I don't remember the book's title now or the names of the authors. But I do remember that their research included interviews with people who had known him at various stages in his life, including former classmates and former neighbors of his family in Queens.
Trump's parents sent him to a military academy after he had been picked up by police more than once as a teen while hanging out with a group of thugs in Manhattan. People who knew him at the school said that he learned the discipline rules very well in order to present an image of compliance while using his knowledge of the rules to circumvent them as often as possible .
That's his approach to law.
teach1st
(5,943 posts)I believe the book is "Trump Revealed" by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher. The Washington Post has made public the documents driving the reporting, including interviews.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-revealed-book-reporting-archive/
No paywall: https://archive.is/1cszO
wnylib
(22,241 posts)ancianita
(36,528 posts)ShazzieB
(16,984 posts)So of course he knows all about legal strategy!
See for yourself:
PCIntern
(25,853 posts)K and and gigantic R
BeyondGeography
(39,437 posts)The way she parried those orange turd questions was nothing short of masterful.
ancianita
(36,528 posts)LiberalFighter
(52,127 posts)Big difference with just having only a transcript.
But a transcript is much better than the synopsis MSNBC provides in the side panel.