Merchan's mistrial ruling and the efficacy of incompetence.

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

There is so little chance of a successful appeal.

 

[BackAgain]

This is pretty funny on its own way.

probably because idiot Trump insisted… the defense tried to claim that there was no sexual relationship

Which opened the door for Daniels to describe the relationship in court.

The defense claims that the description was so lurid and basically disgusting that it would prejudice the jury and they are probably correct…but it was their fault that testimony ever got on the record

The court’s “decision” that denial of her underlying false claim “opened the door” is a biased and erroneous one. Merchan is a hack.

The point of paying for an NDA isn’t to acknowledge a false claim of the supposed prior sexual relations; nor is it to concede that any sexual relations took place.

The point of paying is exclusively to silence the porno ho’s claim. So, whether it’s true or not provides no honest or valid legal basis for Merchan’s scumbag ruling.

 

[berg80]

The court’s “decision” that denial of her underlying false claim “opened the door” is a biased and erroneous one. Merchan is a hack.

I love it when morons give their legal opinions.

 

[BackAgain]

I love it when morons give their legal opinions.

You only love hearing what you wish to believe.

 

[Lesh]

The court’s “decision” that denial of her underlying false claim “opened the door” is a biased and erroneous one. Merchan is a hack.

The point of paying for an NDA isn’t to acknowledge a false claim of the supposed prior sexual relations; nor is it to concede that any sexual relations took place.

The point of paying is exclusively to silence the porno ho’s claim. So, whether it’s true or not provides no honest or valid legal basis for Merchan’s scumbag ruling.

By claiming that sex never happened that opened the door for her to testify that it did.

That’s how it works

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Defense managed to ask a question that allowed stormy to correction the formal record.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

You only live hearing what you wish to believe.

That’s ironic as hell and of course entirely unoriginal.
“Back Again” loves to repackage and repurpose what posters say to him. It’s a form of lazy projection. This makes him a very dull boy indeed.

 

[BackAgain]

By claiming that sex never happened that opened the door for her to testify that it did.

That’s how it works

No. That’s not how it works.

If the question about whether he boinked the Ho was a material element at all, which it absolutely is not, then maybe the declaration by the defense would have “opened the door” to what the persecution improperly did and what the court erroneously permitted.

But since it is immaterial — and thus irrelevant to any material issue at the trial — the persecution committed prosecutorial misconduct and the judge committed judicial error.

 

[BackAgain]

That’s ironic as hell and of course entirely unoriginal.
“Back Again” loves to repackage and repurpose what posters say to him. It’s a form of lazy projection. This makes him a very dull boy indeed.

Fakey, of course, is always guilty of the very things which he falsely accuses other of.

Fakey is a vermin scumbag and off topic.

Merchan’s idiotic rulings are the topic here, child.

 

[Kilroy2]

Trump denied second mistrial request, gag order change in hush money case

Former President Trump's legal team was denied two requests Thursday in his ongoing hush money criminal trial.

The big picture: Judge Juan Merchan rejected a mistrial motion two days after denying a similar request, and he declined to narrow a gag order to allow Trump to speak publicly about adult film actress and star witness Stormy Daniels following her testimony.

State of play: Daniels, whose allegations about an alleged sexual encounter with the former president are at the heart of the criminal trial, defended herself Thursday as Trump's attorneys often appeared to try to undermine her credibility by accusing her of story discrepancies.

• Trump's attorney Todd Blanche requested a mistrial, arguing some of her testimony, including details about an alleged sexual encounter, are unrelated to charges in the case and that her testimony was detrimental.
• Merchan rejected the defense's claim that Daniels' testimony differed from her previous accounts.
• The judge brought up specific issues with the defense's arguments, including that instead of denying the falsification of business records, they're denying the alleged sexual encounter Daniels spoke about, per the New York Times.
• "That in my mind allows the people to do what they can to rehabilitate her and to corroborate her story. Your motion for a mistrial is denied," Merchan said.

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/09/trump-hush-money-mistrial-gag-order

Merchan dressed down the defense's ridiculous request for a mistrial. A request made based on objections to "prejudicial" testimony given by Daniels. Merchan noted it was the defense's contention the sexual encounter never took place that allowed for Daniels to give detailed testimony about it. And that defense counsel passed on opportunities to object during the testimony if they took issue with it.

How does the incompetence of defense counsel work in Don's favor with respect to the court of public opinion? It allows Trump to accuse Merchan of bias, the most essential aspect of the defense to date. A claim no doubt amplified by RWM, who's job it is to reinforce the lies and disinformation Trump spews on a regular basis.

It's all part of a theme. How do you distract attention away from the commission of crimes? Claim our system of justice is corrupt and Trump is being persecuted. How do distract from an incompetent defense? Claim the judge is biased. How do you explain a lost election? Claim the system is rigged. Never accept responsibility for failure. Never admit defeat. Never admit to making mistakes. Sounds like a petulant child, or an authoritarian figure, not the leader of a constitutional republic.

And his minions eat it up.

whom else would make this statement

"BREAKING FROM TRUMP: BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME!"

That is one way to distract them as they will eat it up

Trump is getting desperate and a loose cannon. IF it floats then he will use it.

The raid was back in 2022 and over a year and half ago at his florida home. Now he is accusing Biden of putting a hit on him.

Trump logic is if it floats then its useful. Still it is funny as he has these meltdowns.







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[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Trump's increasingly frenetic behavior seems to pattern that of Hitler's in the final stages of the war.

 

[scruffy]

Trump's increasingly frenetic behavior seems to pattern that of Hitler's in the final stages of the war.

Whereas your demented old coot is Nevil Chamberlain.

Lived long enough to realize how badly he'd fucked up.