He testified for under three minutes. But former President Donald Trump still broke a judge’s rules on what he could tell a jury about writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault and defamation allegations, and he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: “This is not America.”
Testifying in his own defense in the defamation trial, Trump didn’t look at the jury during his short, heavily negotiated stint on the witness stand. Because of the complex legal context of the case, the judge limited his lawyers to asking a handful of short questions, each of which could be answered yes or no — such as whether he’d made his negative statements in response to an accusation and didn’t intend anyone to harm Carroll.
But Trump nudged past those limits.
“She said something that I considered to be a false accusation,” he said, later adding: “I just wanted to defend myself, my family and, frankly, the presidency.”
You sexually assaulted her in 1996 you dumb sack of shit. It was two full decades before you fell ass backwards into the Oval office. This has nothing to do with the presidency. It’s about you and your crimes.
Please have my upvote. Excellently stated. Thank you.
You’re missing it.
He’s claiming the presidency he experienced changes/colors/empowers his current and past actions.
To him, a president or former president should never be on trial for this. To him a president had ascended from crimes of the flesh.
I am all for this as a policy as long as Obama promises to murder him.
I also wouldn’t mind Biden shooting him. Maybe the Republicans then change their minds about gun controll.
Enough Malarkey
Does that mean we can charge him with crimes of the spirit? Heresy or purity charges, anyone?
TBH I would have just let him keep talking. It would be great for the case against him.
That would have led to a mistrial, and further served to delay justice. What Judge Kaplan did was absolutely the right thing, and in the best interest of all parties involved.
stupid question here : why would it have led to a mistrial? if he is the one on trial and he starts running his mouth, its words directly from him. so they can absolutely be used against him (since he said them in court). if he sits there and makes claims (for example) “i was in hawaii at the time” and there are plenty of records to prove he wasn’t in hawaii… that can be used against him … he knows he is under oath and he freely gave the testimony … so it can’t be argued that he was coerced into giving the information…
again… i say stupid question because i’m sure there is a way that it could lead to a mistrial , i just don’t know what it is.
He’s not allowed to lie to the jury.
lmao Perjury is consistently among his criminal charges whether state or federal.
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… he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: “This is not America.”
Sir, this is consequences.
Why do news articles continue to say he “allegedly” assaulted her? This is just irresponsible journalism, designed to soften the fact that Trump sexually assaulted her, and a court has proven that fact
