TL;DR, the AG asked for a bench trial, Trump’s defense team didn’t respond, and so Trump gets a bench trial. It’s possible that a jury trial would have been disallowed in this particular case under New York law, but the defense didn’t even bother to ask.
Whelp, that’s on your people, Donald. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You know you messed up when you run through so many good lawyers that the only people who are still willing to defend you are total goofballs.
My understanding is, with possibly one or two short term exceptions, he hasn’t even had mediocre attorneys for years now. None of the big firms have wanted anything to do with him since before he was president.
There was a good LegalEagle video the other day where he ranked all of Trumps lawyers.
Well, who wants to work for a known rapist and fraudster?
People who don’t give a fuck about the law, that’s who.
This is just so he can claim, later down the line, that it wasn’t fair because it was just one judge and not a jury blah blah
When you never pay your bills, you get what you pay for. Crap.
Is there an advantage is not requesting a jury for Drumps side?
Not even remotely. Since there’s no jury, only the judge will be deciding - and this is the judge that Trump has been publicly talking shit about for months. Presumably, he only did that because he thought the case would be in the hands of a jury anyway, so it didn’t matter as much if he antagonized the judge. Whoops.
For him, it’s the worst possible scenario. For us, it’s highly amusing!
Presumably, he only did that because he thought the case would be in the hands of a jury anyway, so it didn’t matter as much if he antagonized the judge. Whoops.
You’re giving him too much credit. When analyzing his behavior, it always helps to think like a first grader. The judge was mean to him, so he’s being meaner back. It’s as simple as that.
Yea I too like to infantilize people I dislike, this makes me feel super smug and superior. Wait what do you mean the stupid poopy head became president?
The dumbest thing you can do is underestimate your enemies.
I think this is likely no useful at best. For the average person, who cares, but anyone who actually wants to be predictive or cautious, it’s probably harmful. I think it’s much more likely that this is a political tool because he knows he lost already. He convinces how bad the judge is to people and then leaves the decision to the judge, which if you believe they’re incompetent then that decision is now in question. He needs the presidency to save himself, not to convince people of stuff that obviously not true.
He knows hes screwed in every case hes facing. He intends to completely shit the bed in every case since he cant win anyway, claim ineffective counsel on appeal hopefully with judges he appointed. If this doesnt work it goes to his stacked supreme court. He already had an attorney in another case say he would be ineffective counsel in advance of the court proceedings (completely unprecedented) which kinda gave up their game plan.
Seems like I’ve already read of several cases that went against him under judges he appointed. At this point I’m not even sure if the chuckleheads in the supreme court could be swayed in his favor. Considering how certain he is that everybody loves him, it’s not surprising that he thinks there’s only a very small minority of people on a witchhunt to get him. His ego couldn’t handle learning that millions of people would happily drop him on his ass if they saw him in the street.
As I recently learned, you can’t appeal on the basis of ineffective counsel in a civil case. Which this one is. That rationale for appeal is for criminal cases only.
So if he planned to do that here, well… it’s not going to work out so well for him.
Alina Hahaha forgot to tick a box. Only the finest lawyers for trump.
Lmao at his female lawyers face. She looks like a deer in headlights.
