Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

After Trump lawyer Susan Necheles asked again for the name of at least the first witness, Steinglass said he would tell Trump’s counsel the name on Sunday, but if the identity is tweeted before Monday, “that will be the last time.”

Clearly a post-fart shot:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/Z7CYYILLD4MLHBCOVIG36LTAYU.jpg&w=916

Does he know which trial he’s in? (I mean, sometimes I get all the legal proceedings mixed up, too, so…)

trump sharted u kno he did

for thread title

Sir, you were farting bigly.

really funny that the "Trump farted in court" story is taking off, you know it's gonna bother the shit outta him but the more he talks about it the more everyone's gonna think he farted in court

Quite embarrassing to fart at your porn star hush money trial

bring on the fart truthers. they'll try to argue that he who smelt it dealt it but we all know it is in fact he who denied it

If I Dealt It by Donald Trump

bring on the fart truthers. they'll try to argue that he who smelt it dealt it but we all know it is in fact he who denied it

― frogbs

He who denied it supplied it.

David Pecker is such a classic victimised supply teacher, or porn star name. Apologies, I'm easily amused.

He who made the rhyme committed the crime(s)

from witness reports it sounds like his farts could be a health + safety issue. It would be so funny if Merchan made a comment about the Trump farts in a deadly serious and solemn judge voice.

i think its probably noticeable because he's cooped up in one place all day. he's probably someone who uses a bathroom 50 times a day. who was it who said that he smells like garbage and dirty diapers?

Melania

Looking at that pic of Trump in the courtroom, I'm so glad it's one of those brightly-lit fluorescent ones, and not one of those swanky ones you see in the movies, with lots of indirect lighting.

to see the toxic clouds of fart puffing and billowing thru the room OG CSI can supply the correctly calibrated forensic blue light

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVKB50tU8AIa9RG.jpg

Looking at that pic of Trump in the courtroom, I'm so glad it's one of those brightly-lit fluorescent ones, and not one of those swanky ones you see in the movies, with lots of indirect lighting.

Movie courtrooms also seem to have a lot of super tall windows.

and a respected character actor as the crusty but benign judge

Adam Kinzinger was the first I heard raise Trump odor awareness.

There's an entertaining Rolling Stone piece up today about how the trial is driving him berserk. He's apparently most pissed at Maggie Haberman (the first person to report on his falling asleep), Jimmy Kimmel, and the courtroom sketch artist.

why it's not like he drew the fart

There's an entertaining Rolling Stone piece up today about how the trial is driving him berserk.

Is he increasingly isolated tho

his fartshake brings all the boys to his yard

courtroom artists seem to struggle with form but at least pongo snodgrass stink lines are piss easy to draw

Make arse gas again

https://hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2023/04/20230404_161615_resized_2-scaled.jpg

she draws them as a lilac miasma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRalpP-mjs

Triumph: like Trump, a relic of the past century that we really should have been done with long ago.

one of the talking heads just now on ABC This Week their Sunday news show was Reince fucking Priebus! like he was just a normal person duking it out with Donna Brazile. shouldn't he be in prison or something?

Here’s a great NPR piece on Alvin Bragg:

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/19/1244729959/alvin-bragg-manhattans-district-attorney-draws-friends-close-and-critics-closer

I see Maggie The Habes is essaying non-fiction narrative writing:

He is sitting in a decrepit courtroom that, for the second half of last week, was so cold his lead lawyer complained respectfully to the judge about it. Mr. Trump hugged his arms to his chest and told an aide, “It’s freezing.”

For the first few minutes of each day during jury selection, a small pool of still photographers was ushered into Part 59 on the 15th floor of the courthouse. Mr. Trump, obsessed with being seen as strong and being seen generally, prepared for them to rush in front of him by adjusting his suit jacket and contorting his face into a jut-jawed scowl. But, by day’s end on Friday, Mr. Trump appeared haggard and rumpled, his gait off-center, his eyes blank

And:

It is hard to recall any other time when Mr. Trump has had to sit and listen to insults without turning to social media or a news conference to punch back. And it is just as hard to recall any other time he has been forced to be bored for so long.

This would make for an amusing novella length book, which ends with him looking at her at the end of the story and having no idea who she is

Inject this in my veins please

(I know he knows who she is)

I honestly found this Politico piece on the nature of what's public in this trial in terms of motions/documentation very much of interest. It's worth a read!

Heavens! Who could have predicted this?!

After Blanche’s complaints, (Judge) Merchan countered with a swipe at Trump’s legal strategy, noting that his decision to implement the “pre-motion” process was because “we were being absolutely inundated with motions, most of which, frankly, were close to frivolous, if not frivolous.”

I asked Mitchell Epner on Bluesky more re how these filings work in a NY context -- very interesting answer:

This is par for the course in New York state court criminal practice. Justice Merchan isn’t doing anything in particular to shield documents from the public. No NY criminal dockets are online.

Oddly, NY civil dockets are both online & free. Much better than federal courts’ PACER system (pricey). NY civil practitioners have worked hard to make documents easily available. Nobody in the criminal system has an incentive to demand criminal dockets be moved online. Everyone benefits from those records being difficult to obtain, except the public.

I'd agree that it's good that court proceedings are largely public, but nearly immediate public feedback is generally not often gonna be helpful because the public is saturated with prejudices that the court system tries to tamp down through its elaborate processes.

Well, feedback is one thing but having the information out there is still good. Epner's answer also explained why it is we all had the information in the Engoron civil case to immediate hand -- because it was a civil case! (And why we're still getting it, thus James's motion a couple of days back that unperson noted.)

Full speed ahead with the hush money trial, opening arguments are happening now

And earlier Merchan ruled that the prosecutors can ask him about all kinds of cases he's already been found guilty/liable in if he wants to testify so I'm guessing that will keep him from doing just that.

Is the defense going to present an actual case to the jury or just whine about how unfair stuff is?

Per NYT:

Blanche seeks to have the jurors relate to his client, as he says Trump is doing “what any of us would do.”

I...think you might want to rethink that approach.

You can't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his ooze

Separately, that civil case hearing about the bond has wrapped up quickly enough:

AGREEMENT REACHED: Kise says they'll agree to maintain the Schwab account in cash and give Knight exclusive control of the account. Under a previous agreement, a Trump trust shared control. Seems like this will moot the AG's challenge to the bond.

— Rachel Scharf (@rscharf_) April 22, 2024