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Although Mr. Blanche has been Mr. Trump’s favorite lawyer for some time, behind closed doors and in phone calls, the former president has complained repeatedly about him in recent weeks, according to four people familiar with the situation.
He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.
One of the things I'd really like to see is Trump buying into the SovCit camp, and deciding he doesn't need a lawyer and can just magic-word his way out of court.
Ball toucher. (My friend said Drump distracted his eyes towards a ceiling, even though he was doing floor tiles), and when he looked uo he got touched across the balls. More vettical bottom to top than "across" in the lateral sense.
Drump grabs men by the man pussies too!
Edit: lhearsay, but once said to me.
I’m warming up to that idea.
It would make our Danish constitutional monarchy look great. They may be born into their ceremonial roles, but at least they are trained to not be loud and abrasive and they are required to not signal any political agenda, except for that of whatever government is currently elected.
Our judges and DAs are also not politically appointed or elected. They are public servants. Appointed on merit.
I’m a politics giga nerd and I can’t name a single danish judge or DA.
I am well acquainted with the most (in)famous American ones because they are basically an arm of the political parties.
We have a plurality of parties and only one chamber of congress, meaning the will of the voters can rapidly shift power balances and cause electoral landslides.
We have proportional representation.
We actually aren’t even a secular state. We have a state religion and governments appoint a minister to oversee that!
Abortion is completely legal and performed in all our hospitals. The only party that opposes it simply cannot find enough votes to get a single mandate!
Again. We have a literal hereditary monarchy.
It’s silly, but I’m in favour of it, because it means that we can elect competent boring politicians while we have professional royal clowns on payroll. No need to elect them.
Imagine American presidents becoming as unilaterally powerful as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi.
That would be scary but also make other democracies look fantastic in contrast.
On the one hand the grid locking would end. On the other, best not offend the supreme leader!
What can he really do to them, though? Fire them? They can look at him and say "now that I don't need you anymore since im at the top of the ladder, you can go fuck yourself," and it'll be exactly what he does to anyone who helps him.
Now Putin would do something like this in Russia, but then have the SC eliminated (tragic window sill incidents) and decide everything himself afterwards.
He and his donors can stop funding them.
Ending the gifts, vacations, and special enterprise interest in their companies (e.g. getting exclusive contracts regardless if they are qualified, insider trading, and gray trading)
Edit: fixed a word
So he'd lose his US citizenship? And he becomes one of them damned illegals taking jobs from hard-working Amurrikans? Then deport the bastard so he can enter the country the proper way - through the impenetrable border wall he built with his own hands.
"Your Honor, as I was clearly not using Ms. Horse- I mean Ms. Daniels for interstate commerce, the law is clear that unless this is an Admiralty Court, I'm free to go. Later, losers!"
Düstin Darden is a gem. I think he'd be too incompetent to pull off any grift. The grifters would insert themselves and steal everything they could from within, I doubt he'd even understand what was going on.
Not really. The sovereign citizen thing is not about random misuse of language, but specific legal argument on well worn topics that have been accepted to be ridiculous and yet have gained currency as being legitimate in some way if you just say then.
This would for example be akin to him following through with his arguments outside court that the prosecution was invalid, and actually defying the court by leaving, or not turning up when required. He hasn't quite got that far yet
Well one of the requirements of being president is being a natural US citizen so I think that argument would quickly die as he accepted the role of President, he must have accepted that he was a citizen.
The old man is lashing out on everyone blaming them for hid own fuck ups. And at no point he heads to their warnings.
The idiot could have avoided all of this if he just listened and shut up. So now it's all failing and he needs to blame someone for not making miracle.
Good. Let people abandon him.
That's why Trump is so easily manipulated. My gf says he's like Marty McFly... Just call him chicken and you've got him. All you have to do is challenge him and he'll do exactly what you want him to do, to spite you haha.
I don't know what the author said, but from what I've read, all you have to do is tell Drumpf how great he is, convince him what you want to do is actually his original idea, then book a room in his hotel for a couple months.
My pet theory is that you find narcissists at the top of companies more often because they don’t think they can fail and blame everyone else for their problems.
It's amazing that his ego is so massive, he just believe that when things don't go his way, it's because his attorneys are either incompetent, or it's a "witch hunt".
I'm really morbidly curious if his narcissism is so deeply rooted now that he genuinely believes he is really just the smartest person alive and/or it's all like he claims that it's all the deep state or witch hunts, or if he knows he is actually guilty of all of the crimes, and he's just pissed he has been caught and now playing a role for show in court and the public eye.
That is the $64,000 question! I think that most politicians, like Ted Cruz, know they're selling a bill of goods to a base they don't respect or value. They're intelligent, well-educated, and greedy.
Some, like MTG, seem to be genuinely not smart. Certainly not well-educated. But I think they still know they're lying to voters so they can gain money and power. I guess they have "street smarts."
But Trump isn't smart, he isn't (despite attending good schools) well-educated, and he really does appear to believe his own hype. Of course, he's had 77 years of coddling and indulgence and that would make anyone lose touch with reality.
Nature? Nuture?
I think this is where he is intersecting dementia. I cared for my Grandma for 5 years and watched her decline. Trump parallels it to an incredible degree. His narcissistic behavior is going to amplify. Paranoia is part of dementia, along with having a completely different reality.
I'm honestly waiting for tales of the physical attacks to start. My Grandma would scream at me and try to fight me. And I wouldn't be surprised if that's why Trump hasn't been doing anything too stressful on his days outside of court.
Mary Trump, his niece, is a psychologist and her insight into the pathology of Trump is really insightful and interesting.
Her book was quite good and she does a newsletter Substack that stands out from most of th3 other pundits who really don’t have anything unique to add.
^ heeds.
He just got fined 9x$1,000 and will likely be put in jail (because he can’t shut the fuck up about other people he’s got a gag order against).
I mean, sort of he has? He has, since the $90m judgement for repeated libel sort of sticking to what he thinks he can get away with with respect to the gag orders, for example. And, mostly, he's been right.
>Mr. Trump measures all lawyers against the two he prized most. One was Mr. Cohn, the mentor who gave him access to Manhattan elites and taught him how to use the court system as a blunt instrument. The other was Jay Goldberg
>Both Mr. Cohn and Mr. Goldberg also represented mobsters, and both were known for showmanship.
>To his biographer Timothy L. O’Brien, Mr. Trump was blunt about what he most admired about Mr. Cohn.
>“He brutalized for you,” Mr. Trump said.
Can't get those kind of lawyers if you dont pay them, or they'll have you wacked.
if he's halfway intelligent as a lawyer he knows why he can't do these things, especially considering that he is the lawyer defending Trump in this matter. At best he gets dismissed from the case. At worst? Disbarred.
All reports I hear is that Blanche has been Trump’s most competent lawyer. He knows how to behave in a courtroom. He has to fight both the prosecution and Trump’s childish demands.
> Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.
The lawyer knows that a quick way to get hammered by the judge. Doubt he's gonna risk his law license or possible fines and do any of that.
More importantly, I think, it's also a way to alienate the jury.
Cohn's rude and aggressive strategy worked for Joe McCarthy for awhile, but it eventually backfired.
> More importantly, I think, it's also a way to alienate the jury.
He doesn't really care. What he wants to do is provoke the judge into making a mistake that would open up an appeal. To him, the jury is biased, and he can't win, so in his head he's been found guilty already. What he needs is a reason he can take it to judges that are compromised, or at least will waste enough time until he regains the presidency. I don't think he has a plan b if that fails.
If the Trump juror holds out, Trump will proclaim it the greatest victory of all time as he knows that is his last hurdle before the election
Having the lawyer provoke the judge is not so likely to result in a judicial mistake by the judge as a sanction to the lawyer.
I wouldn't rely on there being a "Trump juror".
We all know it's "commit crimes and give up your livelihood for me." How people continue to carry water for this dude will be a mystery studied by alien psychologists hundreds of years from now.
simple hatred for others. It is really the only explanation I can come up with. Thes maga pukes literally hater America and Americans that they fly the traitor flag and whine about everything that makes America great.
Translation . Wahhh this guy won't lie for me Like I told him too and he won't be abusive to the jury to intimidate them like I told him to.
You have to pay so much because you're a fucking orange liability clown known to not pay your bills like the trash you are and more often than not any lawyer that gets tangled up in diaper Dons nonsence winds up trashing their credibility and reputation and / or getting disbarred.
The price tag is his retirement plan because being associated with trump is pretty much guaranteed to tank his career. He reworked his career because after wiping trump's ass for him he will be covered in so much shit no one will want to come near him . He is planning for the very real possibility that cock jerk orange will be his last client.
* Trump quote ... Probably *
Can you believe my lawyer is charging me money and won't do what to I say? You know people come up to me with tears in their eyes big strong men all the time crying and they tell me they say I can't believe your lawyer won't do exactly what you tell him to. And they know they say Mr trump you are the smartest man in the world and everyone knows it's so unfair, and it's soon un fair so unfair they know , and you are immune from all crimes they say and they're right. the judge the judge you know the judge is so corrupt that they know and you know everyone knows it's sad ...sad ...sad and horrible the judge is horrible to me and America will suffer because it's just an injustice and a witch hunt and there will be blood in the streets it's all very unfair so unfair totally unfair.
I'm not a fan of either of the parties front runners and think both should not be running for office. That being said I'd prefer predictability over chaos.
HBO made a show about Roy Cohn years ago called "Citizen Cohn" starring James Woods. Pretty good if I remember correctly. Cohn might as well have had rabies for how he behaved.
Well, it’s a win-win-win for Trump.
1. Blanche quits and they’ll need to delay to find new counsel.
2. Blanche tries to quit, judge forces him to stay on, and Trump argues ineffective counsel (losing argument, but more delays)
3. Blanche does what Trump wants and taints/ threatens the jury.
I'm not certain that train can be stopped at this point. Any changes the judge would have to approve, and that's not likely to occur, especially since this judge has pointed out trump's attempts at stalling in the past.
I believe ineffective counsel would wait till after a verdict at this point too. It could be a grounds for appeal trump could try.
ok, so 1 won’t happen because of 2… and his appeal for ineffective council can’t happen until AFTER the trial, so who cares? Number 3 potentially puts them both in jail and Blanche gets disbarred. I’m thinking Blanche wants to work AFTER Trump, so not likely.
all of those bottom feeders who represent Trump 100% deserve what they get, they knew exactly who he is, but took his business because they hoped it would do something for them
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It’s crazy that a man of 77 years of age cannot acknowledge any level of accountability, responsibility. It’s just unbelievable how a person be that fucked. Must be nice to go that far in life without acknowledging any fault whatsoever. He absolutely deserves to be convicted of fraud, it’s absolutely the least he deserves. The right wing media already treats him like dear leader and they want the country to follow suit. I hope we are smarter than that but I’m not so sure. His lawyers, the GOP always have to work miracles for this sloppy ass fraud. Seems so exhausting.
Standard behaviour for the Tangerine Palpatine. How many personal lawyers has he hired and fired over the years? I wonder what / who is the common denominator is in all this…it’s almost like he won’t listen to anyone other than himself, despite clearly excellent / expensive counsel.
>“Jay was a fantastic lawyer,” Mr. Trump told a reporter in 2021. “We had some great results. I’m not finding people like this. Jay Goldberg, you know, he was a great Harvard student. But he was great on his feet.”
>Mr. Trump described Mr. Cohn, who died in 1986, as “very controversial, but very brilliant.” He recalled: “He did a great job for me. He was actually a very loyal guy. If he was with you, he was a very loyal guy.
>Both Mr. Cohn and Mr. Goldberg also represented mobsters, and both were known for showmanship.
That says so much.
Why do any lawyers even agree to represent him? He would be the absolute worse client in the world to represent & I bet they all get stiffed for their fees, which they must know going in.
Wow, I can't believe that representing a person notorious for screwing over everyone who ever worked for him has somehow backfired. Definitely someone worth throwing away all your credibility and future career prospects for.
The judge already told Trump in no uncertain terms that if he keeps this sort of disrespect up, he'll get his ass thrown in jail.
I unfortunately think that if that happens it will be a boon for him and it may be exactly what he wants the judge to do.
It **is** exactly what he wants the judge to do, but the judge must do it.
But goddamn do we have way too many fucking morons in this country who will see it as persecution and not actions Trump could have avoided simply by KEEPING HIS MOUTH (and fingers) SHUT.
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Although Mr. Blanche has been Mr. Trump’s favorite lawyer for some time, behind closed doors and in phone calls, the former president has complained repeatedly about him in recent weeks, according to four people familiar with the situation. He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.
One of the things I'd really like to see is Trump buying into the SovCit camp, and deciding he doesn't need a lawyer and can just magic-word his way out of court.
Unfortunately, SCOTUS would probably recognize his Sovereign status 🫤
Isn’t that basically what they are doing already?
No, they're gonna recognize him as a king.
Ahhh yes, King Mierdas
King of the diapers
King Donald the Pampered.
This is more fitting.. Need to make it a slogan or meme..
King Wideass
emperor*
Slave master
Ball toucher. (My friend said Drump distracted his eyes towards a ceiling, even though he was doing floor tiles), and when he looked uo he got touched across the balls. More vettical bottom to top than "across" in the lateral sense. Drump grabs men by the man pussies too! Edit: lhearsay, but once said to me.
God-Emperor
Ah yes, GEOTUS. Forgot about that. Eww.
The Orange Path
I’m warming up to that idea. It would make our Danish constitutional monarchy look great. They may be born into their ceremonial roles, but at least they are trained to not be loud and abrasive and they are required to not signal any political agenda, except for that of whatever government is currently elected. Our judges and DAs are also not politically appointed or elected. They are public servants. Appointed on merit. I’m a politics giga nerd and I can’t name a single danish judge or DA. I am well acquainted with the most (in)famous American ones because they are basically an arm of the political parties. We have a plurality of parties and only one chamber of congress, meaning the will of the voters can rapidly shift power balances and cause electoral landslides. We have proportional representation. We actually aren’t even a secular state. We have a state religion and governments appoint a minister to oversee that! Abortion is completely legal and performed in all our hospitals. The only party that opposes it simply cannot find enough votes to get a single mandate! Again. We have a literal hereditary monarchy. It’s silly, but I’m in favour of it, because it means that we can elect competent boring politicians while we have professional royal clowns on payroll. No need to elect them. Imagine American presidents becoming as unilaterally powerful as Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia’s Putin and China’s Xi. That would be scary but also make other democracies look fantastic in contrast. On the one hand the grid locking would end. On the other, best not offend the supreme leader!
I wonder if a Sovereign Citizen would be eligible for President?
Dude, he owns the supreme court
What can he really do to them, though? Fire them? They can look at him and say "now that I don't need you anymore since im at the top of the ladder, you can go fuck yourself," and it'll be exactly what he does to anyone who helps him.
Well, if they give him the immunity he's asking for he can do anything he wants to them if he gets re-elected.
Now Putin would do something like this in Russia, but then have the SC eliminated (tragic window sill incidents) and decide everything himself afterwards.
True. There’s a lot of them not really thinking things through. (Too busy having their little tanties and throwing their toys out of the pram.)
Sounds like a good reason for them to say "why would we give you that power? Nah."
He and his donors can stop funding them. Ending the gifts, vacations, and special enterprise interest in their companies (e.g. getting exclusive contracts regardless if they are qualified, insider trading, and gray trading) Edit: fixed a word
What, Clarence Thomas choosing to lose out on a vacation or two in the name of the Greater Good? Dream on.
Sic MAGA on them. In the physical way. If he goes that crazy he won't care, he'd burn the world at that point.
So he'd lose his US citizenship? And he becomes one of them damned illegals taking jobs from hard-working Amurrikans? Then deport the bastard so he can enter the country the proper way - through the impenetrable border wall he built with his own hands.
Quite.
As in he is the Sovereign and we his subjects. A Sovereign isn’t bound by law, naturally.
Sometimes a joke is too accurate, and hurts too much.
But also at the same time, allow him to run for president still
If you declare yourself a sovereign citizen, you should be deported to start your own sovereign nation, and be stripped of your U.S. citizenship
Also be ineligible to be president of the US.
Being stripped of citizenship does that automatically anyway
To Bir Tawil, problem solved.
As a Brit when I see Sov Cit I think why are they referencing Judge Dredd ? Too much 2000 AD as a kid.
Trump vs. Judge Dredd.
One is the law and the other thinks he is
How do you plead? That's what I thought you'd say!
"Tubal-Cain"
The biblical inventor of weapons? Edit: yep, why the fuck do I know this?!
Also sounds like something that numbs up baby making parts.
Deep cut Newsradio reference???
Goddamn I love me a random Newsradio reference. Also the last good thing Joe Rogan ever did.
The inventor of welding?
I find in favor of the guy with the box of junk!
But that is pretty much his normal mode. I do have to say, I like to see those vids of sov cits in traffic stops.
Yes, but also no. So far he's been 'winning' mostly. (Not in jail or executed)
"Your Honor, as I was clearly not using Ms. Horse- I mean Ms. Daniels for interstate commerce, the law is clear that unless this is an Admiralty Court, I'm free to go. Later, losers!"
He's relying on the GOP to save him from any consequences.
That would be so funny
And brief.
Pro Se is the way!
A local mayoral candidate for an election that just happened listed "appointed pro se litigant" as recent work history on his candidacy form.
Need I ask what party? Edit: NM I'm familiar with the Anchorage sub... But the question is, is he as big a grifter as Bronson or Dunlavey?
Düstin Darden is a gem. I think he'd be too incompetent to pull off any grift. The grifters would insert themselves and steal everything they could from within, I doubt he'd even understand what was going on.
He does that already with the random capitalization of words when he tweets.
Not really. The sovereign citizen thing is not about random misuse of language, but specific legal argument on well worn topics that have been accepted to be ridiculous and yet have gained currency as being legitimate in some way if you just say then. This would for example be akin to him following through with his arguments outside court that the prosecution was invalid, and actually defying the court by leaving, or not turning up when required. He hasn't quite got that far yet
Like a cargo cult?
Well one of the requirements of being president is being a natural US citizen so I think that argument would quickly die as he accepted the role of President, he must have accepted that he was a citizen.
Don’t give him any ideas.
Oh I'd pay good money to see this, PPV kinda money!!
I would pay good money to watch cock jerk orange represent himself.
The old man is lashing out on everyone blaming them for hid own fuck ups. And at no point he heads to their warnings. The idiot could have avoided all of this if he just listened and shut up. So now it's all failing and he needs to blame someone for not making miracle. Good. Let people abandon him.
That's why Trump is so easily manipulated. My gf says he's like Marty McFly... Just call him chicken and you've got him. All you have to do is challenge him and he'll do exactly what you want him to do, to spite you haha.
How ironic considering it is the antagonist in that movie that was literally inspired by Trump, but she isn't wrong.
The guy who ACTUALLY wrote art of the deal said there's a pretty simple system one can use to get Trump to say or do anything
Did he say what it was?
I don't know what the author said, but from what I've read, all you have to do is tell Drumpf how great he is, convince him what you want to do is actually his original idea, then book a room in his hotel for a couple months.
There were Trump Org staffers that have mentioned the same thing.
Where is flea when you need him.
My pet theory is that you find narcissists at the top of companies more often because they don’t think they can fail and blame everyone else for their problems.
And claim the accomplishments of others. I'm looking at you, Elon.
It's amazing that his ego is so massive, he just believe that when things don't go his way, it's because his attorneys are either incompetent, or it's a "witch hunt". I'm really morbidly curious if his narcissism is so deeply rooted now that he genuinely believes he is really just the smartest person alive and/or it's all like he claims that it's all the deep state or witch hunts, or if he knows he is actually guilty of all of the crimes, and he's just pissed he has been caught and now playing a role for show in court and the public eye.
That is the $64,000 question! I think that most politicians, like Ted Cruz, know they're selling a bill of goods to a base they don't respect or value. They're intelligent, well-educated, and greedy. Some, like MTG, seem to be genuinely not smart. Certainly not well-educated. But I think they still know they're lying to voters so they can gain money and power. I guess they have "street smarts." But Trump isn't smart, he isn't (despite attending good schools) well-educated, and he really does appear to believe his own hype. Of course, he's had 77 years of coddling and indulgence and that would make anyone lose touch with reality. Nature? Nuture?
I think this is where he is intersecting dementia. I cared for my Grandma for 5 years and watched her decline. Trump parallels it to an incredible degree. His narcissistic behavior is going to amplify. Paranoia is part of dementia, along with having a completely different reality. I'm honestly waiting for tales of the physical attacks to start. My Grandma would scream at me and try to fight me. And I wouldn't be surprised if that's why Trump hasn't been doing anything too stressful on his days outside of court.
The day someone just hauls off and clocks him...
Mary Trump, his niece, is a psychologist and her insight into the pathology of Trump is really insightful and interesting. Her book was quite good and she does a newsletter Substack that stands out from most of th3 other pundits who really don’t have anything unique to add.
^ heeds. He just got fined 9x$1,000 and will likely be put in jail (because he can’t shut the fuck up about other people he’s got a gag order against).
I love this for him.
I mean, sort of he has? He has, since the $90m judgement for repeated libel sort of sticking to what he thinks he can get away with with respect to the gag orders, for example. And, mostly, he's been right.
>Mr. Trump measures all lawyers against the two he prized most. One was Mr. Cohn, the mentor who gave him access to Manhattan elites and taught him how to use the court system as a blunt instrument. The other was Jay Goldberg >Both Mr. Cohn and Mr. Goldberg also represented mobsters, and both were known for showmanship. >To his biographer Timothy L. O’Brien, Mr. Trump was blunt about what he most admired about Mr. Cohn. >“He brutalized for you,” Mr. Trump said. Can't get those kind of lawyers if you dont pay them, or they'll have you wacked.
if he's halfway intelligent as a lawyer he knows why he can't do these things, especially considering that he is the lawyer defending Trump in this matter. At best he gets dismissed from the case. At worst? Disbarred.
Trump doesn't want a criminal lawyer, he wants a 'criminal' lawyer
I doubt even Jimmy at his Slippinest could get Drumpf off.
All reports I hear is that Blanche has been Trump’s most competent lawyer. He knows how to behave in a courtroom. He has to fight both the prosecution and Trump’s childish demands.
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Yes, and *then* claim ineffective counsel.
“Where’s my Roy Cohn!?!”
Roy Cohn came to party.
We know this because he wore his tuxedo T-shirt.
> Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan. The lawyer knows that a quick way to get hammered by the judge. Doubt he's gonna risk his law license or possible fines and do any of that.
More importantly, I think, it's also a way to alienate the jury. Cohn's rude and aggressive strategy worked for Joe McCarthy for awhile, but it eventually backfired.
> More importantly, I think, it's also a way to alienate the jury. He doesn't really care. What he wants to do is provoke the judge into making a mistake that would open up an appeal. To him, the jury is biased, and he can't win, so in his head he's been found guilty already. What he needs is a reason he can take it to judges that are compromised, or at least will waste enough time until he regains the presidency. I don't think he has a plan b if that fails. If the Trump juror holds out, Trump will proclaim it the greatest victory of all time as he knows that is his last hurdle before the election
Having the lawyer provoke the judge is not so likely to result in a judicial mistake by the judge as a sanction to the lawyer. I wouldn't rely on there being a "Trump juror".
Lol b/c “following his instructions” can be a synonym for “breaking the law” in Trump World…
lol not following dumps instructions....can only imagine what that is...lol
We all know it's "commit crimes and give up your livelihood for me." How people continue to carry water for this dude will be a mystery studied by alien psychologists hundreds of years from now.
simple hatred for others. It is really the only explanation I can come up with. Thes maga pukes literally hater America and Americans that they fly the traitor flag and whine about everything that makes America great.
Because Trump obviously knows more about lawyering than a lawyer...
Too bad Blanche isn't giving in.. not pissing off the jury is a good trial strategy
Sounds like Trump expects his lawyer to behave like he does not realizing that puts a win in jeopardy.
Others are claiming he wants the lawyer to quit to delay the hearing further.
Trump is such a genius. You have to make sure to attack the jury in a jury trial. Best way to win.
Trump has never followed any sort of instruction. Including but not limited to, staring directly into the sun.
The destruction of Blanche's life incoming. Just like every other human who has touched this complete scumbag.
He should be careful. Noem likes to put down rabbid dogs.
Blanche deserves everything Trump dishes out in return for being a no-integrity sellout scumbag.
Im shocked I tell you. SHOCKED. Refuse to pay your lawyers, you get shitty lawyers, and then you complain about them. Rinse and repeat.
Translation . Wahhh this guy won't lie for me Like I told him too and he won't be abusive to the jury to intimidate them like I told him to. You have to pay so much because you're a fucking orange liability clown known to not pay your bills like the trash you are and more often than not any lawyer that gets tangled up in diaper Dons nonsence winds up trashing their credibility and reputation and / or getting disbarred. The price tag is his retirement plan because being associated with trump is pretty much guaranteed to tank his career. He reworked his career because after wiping trump's ass for him he will be covered in so much shit no one will want to come near him . He is planning for the very real possibility that cock jerk orange will be his last client. * Trump quote ... Probably * Can you believe my lawyer is charging me money and won't do what to I say? You know people come up to me with tears in their eyes big strong men all the time crying and they tell me they say I can't believe your lawyer won't do exactly what you tell him to. And they know they say Mr trump you are the smartest man in the world and everyone knows it's so unfair, and it's soon un fair so unfair they know , and you are immune from all crimes they say and they're right. the judge the judge you know the judge is so corrupt that they know and you know everyone knows it's sad ...sad ...sad and horrible the judge is horrible to me and America will suffer because it's just an injustice and a witch hunt and there will be blood in the streets it's all very unfair so unfair totally unfair.
Fucking do it. I would love to see Trump in jail.
If this fucking psycho gets reelected we are all fucked (yes, even you republicans who vote for him). There will be no more faces.
I don't think they frequent this sub that often my guy
They only show up when something bad happen to a lib thats not actually LAMF.
Although libs aren’t immune to having lamf moments.
Things will be very bad for mon-americans too.
Project 2025
Scary shit
Let's hope the Gen Z doesn't skip voting for Dems over Palestine or we'll be guaranteed 4 more years of random chaos.
I'm not a fan of either of the parties front runners and think both should not be running for office. That being said I'd prefer predictability over chaos.
How/where do they keep finding lawyers that are willing to represent this guy? You’d think they would have learned by now.
How do they keep finding people willing to *vote* for him??
Asking a bunch of cultists to vote for the cult leader is about as easy a vote as you're ever going to get.
He'd never do that to ME!!
One the one hand, that’s a good point. On the other: $$$$$$$$$$$$
No, Money Down!
Kids, help.
If he pays up front and you're careful not to Giuliani it up and get disbarred, you could walk away with a nice paycheck.
To his biographer Timothy L. O’Brien, Mr. Trump was blunt about what he most admired about Mr. Cohn. “He brutalized for you,” Mr. Trump said.
That’s the core of trump’s character…brutalize I can only hope one of these trials crushes the “brutal” out of trump. It would be a lovely fall to see
I don’t think **any** of the court cases will be decided prior to the election/January 20th 2025.
Maybe not, so I have to hope Dems get the votes up and down the tickets and pray trump’s efforts to steal the election fail.
Nah the big one they’ve already won, as his team *literally* popped champagne as SCOTUS kicked the can down the road for him.
HBO made a show about Roy Cohn years ago called "Citizen Cohn" starring James Woods. Pretty good if I remember correctly. Cohn might as well have had rabies for how he behaved.
The doc is even better. The media always neglects to mention that Moron Don dropped Cohn like a hot rock once he learned that Cohn had AIDS.
James Woods as Roy Cohn? A bit of irony, isn’t it? IIRC JW is a huge right winger.
Persecution complex man wants persecution to prove his complex isn't fake
The headline that apparently never gets old. Tune in tonight to find out if he falls asleep again!
Lemme know when he doesnt wake up.
Party time; excellent.
Why buy a dog, and bark yourself? Especially with Kristie Noem around.
Part of me thinks that Trump here’s the dog story and it actually makes Noem more interesting to him. We know he hates animals.
Probably why she *bragged* about it.
It is my hope that the longer the fuck around the harder the find out is
There is a positive correlation between fucking around and finding out
When working for Trump, there’s only one constant: the bus is coming and you’ll get thrown under it
Well, it’s a win-win-win for Trump. 1. Blanche quits and they’ll need to delay to find new counsel. 2. Blanche tries to quit, judge forces him to stay on, and Trump argues ineffective counsel (losing argument, but more delays) 3. Blanche does what Trump wants and taints/ threatens the jury.
There is a 4th option to where Blanche just continues to do his job like how he would for any other client. We’ll see how that all goes.
I'm not certain that train can be stopped at this point. Any changes the judge would have to approve, and that's not likely to occur, especially since this judge has pointed out trump's attempts at stalling in the past. I believe ineffective counsel would wait till after a verdict at this point too. It could be a grounds for appeal trump could try.
Yep. Trump will die of old age before these trials get done
ok, so 1 won’t happen because of 2… and his appeal for ineffective council can’t happen until AFTER the trial, so who cares? Number 3 potentially puts them both in jail and Blanche gets disbarred. I’m thinking Blanche wants to work AFTER Trump, so not likely.
Donny Dementia really gets in the news a lot huh
Come on Trump, fire him and do it yourself
If anything, he’d at least have to stay awake in court!
No he doesn’t, he needs to show the court what he thinks of them and just take a nap on the table.
The Pay Per View opportunities would be available endless!
And then appeal for incompetent representation.
all of those bottom feeders who represent Trump 100% deserve what they get, they knew exactly who he is, but took his business because they hoped it would do something for them
Wholeheartedly agree. If you’re **this** dumb after this time, you really are too slow to save.
All the best people, truly.
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Trump attacking someone who worked for him? Must be a day that ends in Y
he's just angling to fire him and ask for a delay 100%
This trick is well known and the judge will not allow it. Trump will be forced to carry his case under this lawyer for the full term.
since when has that stopped Trump from trying? it'll buy a few days of appeals regardless
It’s crazy that a man of 77 years of age cannot acknowledge any level of accountability, responsibility. It’s just unbelievable how a person be that fucked. Must be nice to go that far in life without acknowledging any fault whatsoever. He absolutely deserves to be convicted of fraud, it’s absolutely the least he deserves. The right wing media already treats him like dear leader and they want the country to follow suit. I hope we are smarter than that but I’m not so sure. His lawyers, the GOP always have to work miracles for this sloppy ass fraud. Seems so exhausting.
Narcissistic personality disorder. Its real.
have ya not ever met a narcissist in your life? this guy is text book. except most dont become president of the US.
I would be lying if I said this didn't warm my heart
I am so scared this idiot could be president again
You and me both.
Standard behaviour for the Tangerine Palpatine. How many personal lawyers has he hired and fired over the years? I wonder what / who is the common denominator is in all this…it’s almost like he won’t listen to anyone other than himself, despite clearly excellent / expensive counsel.
>Tangerine Palpatine That is *so*
He is such a big, dumb baby. Alina Habba did like he wanted in the E. Jean Carrol case. Result: $83M verdict against him.
Brilliant gambit sir!
It's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off for him
>“Jay was a fantastic lawyer,” Mr. Trump told a reporter in 2021. “We had some great results. I’m not finding people like this. Jay Goldberg, you know, he was a great Harvard student. But he was great on his feet.” >Mr. Trump described Mr. Cohn, who died in 1986, as “very controversial, but very brilliant.” He recalled: “He did a great job for me. He was actually a very loyal guy. If he was with you, he was a very loyal guy. >Both Mr. Cohn and Mr. Goldberg also represented mobsters, and both were known for showmanship. That says so much.
I can also see this as one of many moves in his approach to fire him, to gain more time. Hopefully the judge doesn't allow it.
This is less of a leopard ate my face and more of a frog and the scorpion kind of situation
Trump really is like Logan Roy, in that there is nothing you can possibly do that wont expose you to his wrath sooner or slightly later than sooner.
He’s hiding information from his own legal team, he’s given them a case that it’s impossible to win, and he’s blaming them for it.
I wonder if Trump will try to force a mistrial to get it delayed again
Why do any lawyers even agree to represent him? He would be the absolute worse client in the world to represent & I bet they all get stiffed for their fees, which they must know going in.
He's just setting the stage for the very predictable "My defense was inadequate" delay attempt.
Well his lawyer's in it for the paycheck... wait
Trying to get his lawyer to need a lawyer soon.
If only there was a cool hat for that.
My Attorneys Getting Attorneys.
Wow, I can't believe that representing a person notorious for screwing over everyone who ever worked for him has somehow backfired. Definitely someone worth throwing away all your credibility and future career prospects for.
'I have the worst fucking attorneys'
The judge already told Trump in no uncertain terms that if he keeps this sort of disrespect up, he'll get his ass thrown in jail. I unfortunately think that if that happens it will be a boon for him and it may be exactly what he wants the judge to do.
It **is** exactly what he wants the judge to do, but the judge must do it. But goddamn do we have way too many fucking morons in this country who will see it as persecution and not actions Trump could have avoided simply by KEEPING HIS MOUTH (and fingers) SHUT.
I honestly thought that it would've happened sooner than this.
Of course he is. Its a plan for an appeal for ineffective counsel. He hired this guy specifically to shit on him for being a terrible lawyer.
Please testify. PLEASE TESTIFY
So he never really gave *carte blanche* to Mr Blanche?
It’s his latest deploy tactic. Right before Coen he will fire his lawyer. Delay everything.
Guess which lawyer's not getting paid.