Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Missing a request for a jury trial is pretty much per se malpractice.

Does that mean a likely appeal or retrial?

Neither. It's a civil trial, not criminal, so it has no effect on the outcome (no right to effective counsel in a civil trial). But theoretically Trump might have a civil cause of action against the attorney for malpractice.

This is like when Alex Jones’ lawyers sent his phone over as discovery

xpost You mean the same judge that already ordered the entire organization potentially dissolved?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, October 2, 2023 1:18 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"forgetting who the defendant is in this case"

Reportedly Trump and his kids are supposed to take the stand, but I don't see that happening.

do we actually know that the lawyer forgot to do this and that they wanted a jury trial?

I'm honestly surprised Trump isn't representing himself.

maybe the lawyer did it on purpose

I heard that he definitely wouldn't have wanted a bench trial in this case, or wouldn't have been advised to get one if was getting proper legal advise, so I guess it must have been a fuckup.

Knowing you're never gonna see a dime for it can have a real impact on the quality of one's work.

Maybe they're getting paid in room service credit.

so how does the strategy work exactly, where you call the judge deranged and the case a scam?

I'm guessing it's the "I've got rubes sending me millions of dollars and a decent shot of being President again, and anyway I'll probably die in a few years so fuck it" strategy

Maybe they're getting paid in room service credit

Hamberders

One hundredth of a Trump NFT per billing hour

“This is a judge that should be disbarred. This is a judge that should be out of office. This is a judge that some people say could be charged criminally for what he’s doing. He’s interfering with an election and it’s a disgrace.”

— Donald Trump, upon leaving his civil fraud trial in New York City.

This is Mike Judge
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCf8sjG9BnhLPUca0ICaRbgzcho0Pl6rEg8ztE51L52VeIa9zg

This is Judge Reinhold
https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w500/oPdJz2hSIkrj1wvOpupGoIej6IO.jpg

so I guess contempt of court isn't a thing anymore?

his rants about the judge devaluing his properties are irrelevant, the figure isn't a selling price it's what the tax appraisers decide it's value is for their purposes. I don't know fuck all about law but I know a pointless, completely null defense argument when I see one.

Applause to JiC

the figures they used were absurd but there are a lot of reasons for a gulf between taxable value and likely sale value of a property

most of which, if not nebulous and legally questionable, would mean a swift increase at reassessment

he's basically being marcel duchamp and saying, no, since I signed this urinal it's now a work of art and not the same as a toilet you buy from the supplier

do we actually know that the lawyer forgot to do this and that they wanted a jury trial?

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, October 2, 2023 1:34 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

in the article it said that youre supposed to submit a form saying whether you want a jury trial or not and they did not submit the form, however the prosecution did submit the form and asked for a bench trial, so yea seems like a oopsie

he's basically being marcel duchamp and saying, no, since I signed this urinal it's now a work of art and not the same as a toilet you buy from the supplier

Yeah, but it doesn't work retroactively. His argument was, iirc, even if it wasn't worth a lot *then* it is *now*, but whatever value was added came *after* it was overvalued. And then there's flat-out fuckery like saying Trump Tower had three times as much space as was assessed. I believe there was some reporting that as soon as the overestimation of square footage came out, Trump Inc. stopped lying about it.

always a good strategy at a bench trial - insulting the presiding judge lol

Throughout the day, defense attorneys also took aim at the judge, making testy assertions such as “I don’t think you’re an expert on accounting standards” and “you owe it to the defendants to listen to this evidence.”

but you see, I signed next to the statement that the square footage magically tripled so I made it so

do we actually know that the lawyer forgot to do this and that they wanted a jury trial?

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, October 2, 2023 1:34 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

in the article it said that youre supposed to submit a form saying whether you want a jury trial or not and they did not submit the form, however the prosecution did submit the form and asked for a bench trial, so yea seems like a oopsie

lol... I've heard it's not even a dedicated form - It's literally a "jury trial" box that wasn't checked on another form!

A dozen innocent people plus alternates have been spared by this witless gaff

EXCLUSIVE: Arizona prosecutors are probing Trumpworld efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election — years into Joe Biden’s presidencyhttps://t.co/v8en5nUO8b

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 3, 2023

this guy just cant catch a break

How can he be a "threat to democracy" when there are thousands of elections all over this country every year and he only tried to steal one of them? A statistically insignificant number!

he just wanted to steal one election, as a treat

He tried to steal the prettiest one

lol good stuff

Eric Trump says New York City is dirty.
Also, Eric Trump says his father has done more to shape New York City which he describes as amazing pic.twitter.com/YNJJti1MFp

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 3, 2023

starting to grow Perot ears

I was about to post a picture of that genetically modified rat with an ear growing out of its back, but it was horrifying, even by the standards of Eric Trump.

one’s a hideous abomination formed by unholy meddling with the natural order, the other is a genetically modified rat etc etc

Earic Trump

jesus looking old there man

Trump shares bizarre court sketch of him sitting next to Jesus at fraud trial https://t.co/yQ70OstOy1 pic.twitter.com/4hdZ5Eq70c

— New York Post (@nypost) October 3, 2023

hey man, he packed a lotta livn' in those 33 years

forgot to hydrate

Jesus looking old and also sinister.

He never buys any smokes iirc

Jesus looks like a guy with some dark secrets

unindicted co-conspirator #17 unmasked as yeshua bar yosef during surprise court appearance

looks like his death sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison and he paid off the Samaritan gang to shank Judas

he came back from the dead to attend a civil trial in New York, that doesn't surprise me a bit

he looks like barry gibb

Jesus, or Sauron?

Jim Caviezel?

Jesus famously hung out with fraudsters.