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11 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

I think we are overthinking this. More like, his food is no longer free.

Reminds me of that Godzilla movie when Matthew Broderick hears the generals talking tactics vs. the monster, and he says something like "You're approaching this as if it were an enemy, but it's just an animal."

So leave 1,000 pounds of fish ketchup-coated steak in the subway, Trump will come out to feast.

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11 minutes ago, dcbc said:
9 hours ago, Rimbo said:

Both links are dead. Can't find it now. Sad

I literally just clicked the link that you quoted and said was dead and it worked fine, fwiw. 

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1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

eh? works for me

I had issues with it this morning, but it's working for me now.  Weird. 

 

 

1 hour ago, TexasEd said:

Every time I look at him this is what I think of

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MAGdA

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Trump Says He Intends to Testify in His Manhattan Criminal Case

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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.

 

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5 hours ago, bolverk said:

Trump Says He Intends to Testify in His Manhattan Criminal Case

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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. 

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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.  

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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.  

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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.

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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. 

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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.  

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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

Trump Says He Intends to Testify in His Manhattan Criminal Case

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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.

 

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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)

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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.

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

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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.

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She looks like a schemer

 

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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.  

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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!”

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