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[Bullneck 19206]

 

 

[bolverk 29718]

Trump Says He Intends to Testify in His Manhattan Criminal Case

Donald J. Trump, having failed to fend off a criminal trial in Manhattan that begins on Monday, said that he planned to testify in the case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star.

Taking questions Friday from reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Trump, when asked whether he would take the stand, responded that he would.

“I’m testifying. I tell the truth,” he said, standing just off a sunny patio of the private club with Speaker Mike Johnson behind him. “I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there’s no case. They have no case.”

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has charged Mr. Trump with 34 felonies, declined to comment on his remarks.

Despite Mr. Trump’s comments, it is far from a sure thing that he will testify. Instead, his comments initiate a familiar two-step: It will not be clear whether the former president will take the stand until the moment he actually does.

Mr. Trump will most likely wait to see whether the prosecution presents a strong case — and whether the judge presiding over the trial plans to restrict prosecutors’ efforts to cross-examine him, according to people with knowledge of his planning.

In past cases, Mr. Trump has wavered after saying that he would testify, including during his civil fraud trial last year, when he canceled his defense testimony the day before he was scheduled to take the stand.

When he was called to testify by the New York attorney general’s office, which filed the case, it did not go well. The judge in the case, who found Mr. Trump liable for conspiring to inflate his net worth, criticized the former president for not answering directly and questioned his credibility.

Testifying in a criminal case would be even riskier. In the trial scheduled to start next week, Mr. Trump is for the first time facing the threat of criminal conviction. He will be at a disadvantage with a jury in Manhattan, a heavily Democratic county.

“Jury selection is largely luck,” Mr. Trump said in his remarks on Friday. “It depends who you get.”

The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, accused Mr. Trump of coordinating the hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 election. The $130,000 payment bought her silence as she was shopping a story about a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump was charged with falsifying documents to cover up that payment.

Mr. Trump denies the charges, and having had sex with Ms. Daniels. He has cast Mr. Bragg’s case as a politically motivated witch hunt.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.

 

[dcbc 14509]

5 hours ago, bolverk said:

“I’m testifying. I tell the truth,” he said, standing just off a sunny patio of the private club with Speaker Mike Johnson behind him. “I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there’s no case. They have no case.”

[Fudge Nuggets 19224]

5 hours ago, bolverk said:

Trump Says He Intends to Testify in His Manhattan Criminal Case

Donald J. Trump, having failed to fend off a criminal trial in Manhattan that begins on Monday, said that he planned to testify in the case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star.

Taking questions Friday from reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Trump, when asked whether he would take the stand, responded that he would.

“I’m testifying. I tell the truth,” he said, standing just off a sunny patio of the private club with Speaker Mike Johnson behind him. “I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there’s no case. They have no case.”

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has charged Mr. Trump with 34 felonies, declined to comment on his remarks.

Despite Mr. Trump’s comments, it is far from a sure thing that he will testify. Instead, his comments initiate a familiar two-step: It will not be clear whether the former president will take the stand until the moment he actually does.

Mr. Trump will most likely wait to see whether the prosecution presents a strong case — and whether the judge presiding over the trial plans to restrict prosecutors’ efforts to cross-examine him, according to people with knowledge of his planning.

In past cases, Mr. Trump has wavered after saying that he would testify, including during his civil fraud trial last year, when he canceled his defense testimony the day before he was scheduled to take the stand.

When he was called to testify by the New York attorney general’s office, which filed the case, it did not go well. The judge in the case, who found Mr. Trump liable for conspiring to inflate his net worth, criticized the former president for not answering directly and questioned his credibility.

Testifying in a criminal case would be even riskier. In the trial scheduled to start next week, Mr. Trump is for the first time facing the threat of criminal conviction. He will be at a disadvantage with a jury in Manhattan, a heavily Democratic county.

“Jury selection is largely luck,” Mr. Trump said in his remarks on Friday. “It depends who you get.”

The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, accused Mr. Trump of coordinating the hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 election. The $130,000 payment bought her silence as she was shopping a story about a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump was charged with falsifying documents to cover up that payment.

Mr. Trump denies the charges, and having had sex with Ms. Daniels. He has cast Mr. Bragg’s case as a politically motivated witch hunt.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.

 

He says that every time and never folliws through. Because he’s a big old pussy. 

[The Dog 44140]

[Neonmoon 38130]

How many weeks this gonna last?

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19142]

1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

How many weeks this gonna last?

Don’t know.  Glad I’m flying to London tonight.

[AnTiM 1669]

Just please let me live long enough to see this sorry bastard actually convicted of a major crime.  Forty years is long enough to wait.

[BamaATL 16593]

1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

How many weeks this gonna last?

What I've read is that jury selection is expecting to take 1 to 2 weeks, the trial itself 3 to 4 weeks.  So basically no idea.  I'm unclear as to whether or not he has to attend everyday of jury selection or not.  I know he has to attend everyday of trial.  

[dcbc 14509]

28 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

I know he has to attend everyday of trial.

That's going to drive him nuts.  I approve.

[AnTiM 1669]

1 minute ago, dcbc said:

That's going to drive him nuts.  I approve.

That's no drive, only a putt.😁

[dcbc 14509]

Just now, AnTiM said:

That's no drive, only a putt.😁

Well, he'll have plenty of time to work on his putz.

[locodos 5393]

34 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

 I know he has to attend everyday of trial.  

Really?  link?

[BamaATL 16593]

9 minutes ago, locodos said:

Really?  link?

Not immediately at my fingers, but I've read that multiple places.  I've also never heard of a criminal defendant being excused from trial.  

[locodos 5393]

5 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Not immediately at my fingers, but I've read that multiple places.  I've also never heard of a criminal defendant being excused from trial.  

"As a criminal defendant, Trump is required to attend proceedings each day of the trial unless he applies for a waiver."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-trial-begins-today-jury-selection/#:~:text=As a criminal defendant%2C Trump,he applies for a waiver.

[immamac 43048]

Why would jury selection take weeks? 

[TwiceHorn 31536]

1 minute ago, immamac said:

Why would jury selection take weeks? 

Big trial with well known defendant usually starts with a bigger panel than a no-name trial. Each of the jurors has likely filled out a lengthy written questionnaire. The lawyers are probably given more than the usual six or twelve strikes. The questioning of the panel will begin with questionnaire answers and then move to the ad hoc question that are more typical. 

[South Austin 52604]

3 minutes ago, immamac said:

Why would jury selection take weeks? 

Jury selection in the OJ trial took about two months.

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

33 minutes ago, dcbc said:

That's going to drive him nuts.  I approve.

He’s going to relish all the media attention and the free advertising of his rants about his victimhood. 

[BamaATL 16593]

1 minute ago, South Austin said:

Jury selection in the OJ trial took about two months.

Just imagine how many people would do anything to get off that jury, just like a jury for Trump.  

[TwiceHorn 31536]

13 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Big trial with well known defendant usually starts with a bigger panel than a no-name trial. Each of the jurors has likely filled out a lengthy written questionnaire. The lawyers are probably given more than the usual six or twelve strikes. The questioning of the panel will begin with questionnaire answers and then move to the ad hoc question that are more typical. 

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiZ2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5iY25ld3MuY29tL3BvbGl0aWNzL2RvbmFsZC10cnVtcC90cnVtcC1odXNoLW1vbmV5LXRyaWFsLW5ldy15b3JrLWp1cnktc2VsZWN0aW9uLXJjbmExNDU5MzjSAStodHRwczovL3d3dy5uYmNuZXdzLmNvbS9uZXdzL2FtcC9yY25hMTQ1OTM4?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

Unusually good NBC story covers the process. 

[atomheartbevo 89799]

22 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Just imagine how many people would do anything to get off that jury, just like a jury for Trump.  

These days they’ll be thinking about book deals and trying to stay on the jury.

[Fudge Nuggets 19224]

16 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

These days they’ll be thinking about book deals and trying to stay on the jury.

Just like they did for the OJ trial.  They probably had people auditioning for jury duty like it was a background role in a Hollywood blockbuster.

[Gatorubet 30313]

7 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Just like they did for the OJ trial.  They probably had people auditioning for jury duty like it was a background role in a Hollywood blockbuster.

[jimmyjazz 46131]

I dated a girl in HS whose best friend was a cheerleader.  She ended up cheering for the Rams and Raiders and at one point dated OJ, although none of us knew about that  I was watching trial recaps late one night and to my surprise she was on the witness stand.  She was the first person OJ called after he "didn't" kill Nicole and Ron.  That was unnerving.  She actually saved the answering machine tape and they played it in the courtroom.

Then she became an attorney and entertainment executive.

 

 

[tx 3 putt 77428]

On 4/13/2024 at 7:49 AM, bolverk said:

Trump Says He Intends to Testify in His Manhattan Criminal Case

Donald J. Trump, having failed to fend off a criminal trial in Manhattan that begins on Monday, said that he planned to testify in the case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star.

Taking questions Friday from reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Trump, when asked whether he would take the stand, responded that he would.

“I’m testifying. I tell the truth,” he said, standing just off a sunny patio of the private club with Speaker Mike Johnson behind him. “I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there’s no case. They have no case.”

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has charged Mr. Trump with 34 felonies, declined to comment on his remarks.

Despite Mr. Trump’s comments, it is far from a sure thing that he will testify. Instead, his comments initiate a familiar two-step: It will not be clear whether the former president will take the stand until the moment he actually does.

Mr. Trump will most likely wait to see whether the prosecution presents a strong case — and whether the judge presiding over the trial plans to restrict prosecutors’ efforts to cross-examine him, according to people with knowledge of his planning.

In past cases, Mr. Trump has wavered after saying that he would testify, including during his civil fraud trial last year, when he canceled his defense testimony the day before he was scheduled to take the stand.

When he was called to testify by the New York attorney general’s office, which filed the case, it did not go well. The judge in the case, who found Mr. Trump liable for conspiring to inflate his net worth, criticized the former president for not answering directly and questioned his credibility.

Testifying in a criminal case would be even riskier. In the trial scheduled to start next week, Mr. Trump is for the first time facing the threat of criminal conviction. He will be at a disadvantage with a jury in Manhattan, a heavily Democratic county.

“Jury selection is largely luck,” Mr. Trump said in his remarks on Friday. “It depends who you get.”

The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, accused Mr. Trump of coordinating the hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 election. The $130,000 payment bought her silence as she was shopping a story about a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump was charged with falsifying documents to cover up that payment.

Mr. Trump denies the charges, and having had sex with Ms. Daniels. He has cast Mr. Bragg’s case as a politically motivated witch hunt.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.

 

[RomaVicta 30018]

On 4/11/2024 at 10:20 PM, Biff Tannen said:

Good lord those have to be Eric's kids.

Don't ask Trump. He has no idea what his grandkids look like.

[tx ind 7013]

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

He’s going to relish all the media attention and the free advertising of his rants about his victimhood. 

Bingo, and he doesn’t have to go ham it up and campaign with his supporters (everyone knows he can’t stand them)

[Brisketexan 105337]

4 hours ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

Don’t know.  Glad I’m flying to London tonight.

Semi-related, sent you a PM re London.  If you have time to check them.

[GenXer 3025]

33 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I dated a girl in HS whose best friend was a cheerleader.  She ended up cheering for the Rams and Raiders and at one point dated OJ, although none of us knew about that  I was watching trial recaps late one night and to my surprise she was on the witness stand.  She was the first person OJ called after he "didn't" kill Nicole and Ron.  That was unnerving.  She actually saved the answering machine tape and they played it in the courtroom.

Then she became an attorney and entertainment executive.

 

 

I can only imagine how many stories she could tell over a night of drinking 

[C-Man 27262]

On 4/13/2024 at 7:49 AM, bolverk said:

Trump Says He Intends to Testify in His Manhattan Criminal Case

Donald J. Trump, having failed to fend off a criminal trial in Manhattan that begins on Monday, said that he planned to testify in the case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star.

Taking questions Friday from reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. Trump, when asked whether he would take the stand, responded that he would.

“I’m testifying. I tell the truth,” he said, standing just off a sunny patio of the private club with Speaker Mike Johnson behind him. “I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there’s no case. They have no case.”

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which has charged Mr. Trump with 34 felonies, declined to comment on his remarks.

Despite Mr. Trump’s comments, it is far from a sure thing that he will testify. Instead, his comments initiate a familiar two-step: It will not be clear whether the former president will take the stand until the moment he actually does.

Mr. Trump will most likely wait to see whether the prosecution presents a strong case — and whether the judge presiding over the trial plans to restrict prosecutors’ efforts to cross-examine him, according to people with knowledge of his planning.

In past cases, Mr. Trump has wavered after saying that he would testify, including during his civil fraud trial last year, when he canceled his defense testimony the day before he was scheduled to take the stand.

When he was called to testify by the New York attorney general’s office, which filed the case, it did not go well. The judge in the case, who found Mr. Trump liable for conspiring to inflate his net worth, criticized the former president for not answering directly and questioned his credibility.

Testifying in a criminal case would be even riskier. In the trial scheduled to start next week, Mr. Trump is for the first time facing the threat of criminal conviction. He will be at a disadvantage with a jury in Manhattan, a heavily Democratic county.

“Jury selection is largely luck,” Mr. Trump said in his remarks on Friday. “It depends who you get.”

The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, accused Mr. Trump of coordinating the hush-money payment to the porn star, Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 election. The $130,000 payment bought her silence as she was shopping a story about a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump was charged with falsifying documents to cover up that payment.

Mr. Trump denies the charges, and having had sex with Ms. Daniels. He has cast Mr. Bragg’s case as a politically motivated witch hunt.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.

 

 

[tx 3 putt 77428]

Has he been found guilty yet ?

[RomaVicta 30018]

On 4/12/2024 at 5:30 PM, Bullneck said:

 

 

What little I saw of her on TV, I could tell she had wit.

[RDCanecutter 26473]

2 hours ago, immamac said:

Why would jury selection take weeks? 

So all those potential jurors can get paid pimp-rolls of jury duty money.

[Pato del Muerto 52600]

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

I dated a girl in HS whose best friend was a cheerleader.  She ended up cheering for the Rams and Raiders and at one point dated OJ, although none of us knew about that  I was watching trial recaps late one night and to my surprise she was on the witness stand.  She was the first person OJ called after he "didn't" kill Nicole and Ron.  That was unnerving.  She actually saved the answering machine tape and they played it in the courtroom.

Then she became an attorney and entertainment executive.

 

 

She looks like a schemer

 

[texasdago 7579]

5 hours ago, AnTiM said:

Just please let me live long enough to see this sorry bastard actually convicted of a major crime serve time.  Forty years is long enough to wait.

FIFY

Convicted doesn't mean a thing.  Jail time is the goal.  

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20493]

According to various tweets, Trump fell asleep and was drooling during the trial this morning.  According to others, he does not look good.

 

 

[C-Man 27262]

Maggie Haberman is on CNN and apparently tweeted that it appeared that Trump fell asleep at one point during this AM's proceedings.

[The Dog 44140]

 

[4th&Five 41590]

 

[Gatorubet 30313]

50 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

According to various tweets, Trump fell asleep and was drooling during the trial this morning.  According to others, he does not look good.

“Sleepy Donny. Sad!”

Edited April 15 by Gatorubet

[Pato del Muerto 52600]

[4th&Five 41590]

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33899]

did they dna test the man that walked into the courtroom today to verify it's the real dotard? I mean, sounds like he's playing the part well and all, just want to make sure we have the right guy

[Captainant 27772]

Finally, a natural use for the drooling Homer reaction

[safe sex 11758]

I can't wait for him to not show up and reveal the arrest threat to be toothless

[Pato del Muerto 52600]

9 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

 

Trump supporters just don’t want to work anymore

[Rimbo 26112]

8 minutes ago, safe sex said:

I can't wait for him to not show up and reveal the arrest threat to be toothless

Seriously?

[Pato del Muerto 52600]

Medical exemption- bone spurs again

[Captainant 27772]

1 minute ago, Rimbo said:

Seriously?

I betcha a $20 donation to Burnt Ends that at least once in this trial, trump will no-show and get an after-the-fact exception or something else that that prevents him from getting frog marched into court