Lawyer preparation suggests Trump won’t testify in New York trial

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/18/trump-trial-testifying/

47 comments

  1. >Four people close to the former president said next week’s plan does not include him testifying, and they expect the jury to start deliberating later in the week.

    Trump has been whining for weeks about an inability to speak out and defend himself. Yet, when he is given the opportunity, he chooses to be quiet.

    Coward.

    Also, remember this…

    [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-absolutely-testify-new-york-criminal-trial-rcna147663](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-absolutely-testify-new-york-criminal-trial-rcna147663)

    >Former President Donald Trump told reporters Friday he would “absolutely” testify in his upcoming hush money trial that is set to begin on Monday.

    >”Yeah, I would testify, absolutely,” he said in response to a question from NBC News.

    >”I’m testifying. I tell the truth, I mean, all I can do is tell the truth. And the truth is that there is no case,” Trump said.

    Not only a coward, but a liar too.

    Edit: Formatting

  2. Of course not. He’s a fucking coward.

    Lie #430,000.

  3. Won’t testify in his own trial… The debates should be fun

  5. Shitler is a coward. Always whining about being silenced. Coward. 

  7. Well.. no shit. No lawyer would let a client like Trump testify. He’s literally incapable of telling the truth on anything.

  8. There was never any doubt. He’s too much of a coward.

  9. “My defense team did such an amazing job, there’s no need for me to testify… even though I totally would and would be the absolute best at it.”

  11. Calling it now: despite the fact the judge explicitly clarified this to Trump in court, if he loses, from this point out he will claim that the gag order forbade him from taking the stand and it’s the reason he lost the case.

  13. You would think he would want to explain how what he did this time was totally cool and totally legal.

  17. What a loud mouth orange pussy! Scared to be under oath.

  18. Of course he won’t. How do we know this? Because he said he would.

  20. He cant. He would open up so many doors for cross examination and probably have more charges after he lies on the stand.

  21. He’s a lying mental case who’d be ripped to shreds under cross examination. His claim that he will testify is just more diaper drippings for the cult.

  22. He’s going to claim that the gag order prevented him from testifying. No amount of reality will persuade his supporters otherwise

  23. So the gold-plated cock that can’t keep his mouth shut outside of court is too chicken to cluck within it.

  25. The discount Biff Tannen is constantly bloviating and whining how he isn’t ever able to to “defend himself” in this case (and, like, *alllll* others).

    So, this is me pointing at the witness stand and loudly proclaiming, *”Get on up there, champ! Do your ‘stable genius’ thing, Mr. Crybaby!!”*

  26. Trump said that he was going to testify. This of course means that he won’t be testifying.

  28. So the prosecution can’t call on him to testify? This is so weird how the system works.

  29. Trump wasn’t ever going to testify because he’s allergic to the truth and he wouldn’t be able to handle cross examination because he can’t answer a question with a simple yes or no. His drug addled brain won’t let him.

  32. Pundit and lawyer Andrew Weissmann made an interesting point a few days ago that it is up to the defendant not the defense lawyers to decide if the defendant wants to testify and a judge will often ask the defendant directly if he wishes to do so.

    Starting at about 2:00 mins. [Here](https://youtu.be/s5tuKVRvQNI?si=hTzkC8oc-bt1IG2C).

    Can you imagine DT being asked this question and being faced with a snap decision. No matter how much pleading with his lawyers the night before, I can’t imagine him turning down the direct opportunity to take the stand if the judge flat out asks him.

    But I’m prone to fantasy so don’t mind me.

  37. Suggests? It’s a forgone conclusion.

    He’s not testifying.

  38. It’s not a he-said, she-said… Him not testifying in his own defense is pretty damning. Especially when there’s heaps of criminal evidence and enough testimony to send him to prison. How addled his trump that they don’t trust him on his own defense podium?

  40. He claimed Martha Stewart screwed herself by not testifying on her own behalf… he’s a compulsive habitual liar and knows he’ll crash burn and melt in real time!!🔥🔥

  41. Come on Donnie! Your chance to make history is passing you by!

  42. He was never going to testify.

    His lawyers built their whole case on poking holes in Michael Cohen’s credibility. Put Trump on the stand and all that goes out the window, it’s all about HIS credibility, and you couldn’t impanel a fuckin jury on the most remote island in the most remote corner of the goddamned globe that didn’t have 12 people who know for a fucking fact that Trump’s a liar.

    I mean, I guess it’s fun that we all pretended for a couple weeks or whatever, but it’s gonna be a lot easier to do all this if we don’t act like our brains got fucking erased on Jan 20, 2021.

  43. Does anyone realize the level of self control and amount of medication it will take The Doze Master to not testify. Believe it when the trial is over.

  44. Wow no shit, huh?  Are we to believe that was all blustering when he said he would testify?  

  45. “If Trump were to take the stand, such testimony could take many days, which would significantly extend the trial.”

    This is a good excuse for him to dip out of the debate with Biden

  46. They should do a weigh in. This would prove the orange man lies – no way he only weighs 215 lbs – maybe 315.

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