Donald Trump was rebuked by Judge Arthur Engoron for giving “speeches” during his testimony on Monday before New York court in a civil fraud trial that will determine the future of his business empire. At one point Engoron warned the former president’s attorneys that he would dismiss Trump from the stand if they did not get him under control. “I beseech you to control him if you can,” Engoron said. “If you can’t, I will. I will excuse him and draw every negative inference that I can.”
The warning came after the judge repeatedly cautioned Trump against delivering political diatribes in lieu of answers. “Some of your answers have not been in response to the question,” Engoron told Trump earlier in his testimony, adding that prosecuting attorney Kevin Wallace had been “very patient.”
After repeated attempts to get Trump’s testimony back on track, Engoron told Trump’s attorneys that “this is not a political rally” and suggested that maybe they “need to have a talk with him right now.”
> Judge Engoron to Trump’s attorney: “I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can’t, I will. I will I excuse him and draw every negative inference that I can.”
> “Did you ever think that the values were off in your Statement of Financial Condition?” state attorney Kevin Wallace asked.
> “Yes, on occasion. Both high and low,” Trump said, appearing to surprise Wallace who paused to allow Trump to continue his answer.
Are you telling me that a pathologically lying narcissistic man-child can’t control himself in a controlled environment? It’s a good thing this guy never had a job that limited his authority
Can’t the judge declare Trump in contempt of court and put him in jail as the consequence?
It’s going to be difficult for a 120 pound woman to control a 300+ pound dumpster fire
Contempt; jail.
This is why Jack Smith doesn’t want the 1/6 trial televised
He’s doing this as a tactic. He knows he isn’t going to win the case so he’s painting himself as a martyr. He wants the judge to excuse him. He’s only scheduled for today. He wants the outcome to look like he spoke his mind and the judge unfairly ruled against him.
He’s accepting the loss in money and possible license. He’s willing to burn his NYC empire as a political sideshow because he wants the White House.
That’s what it seems like from all of the comments that are leaking.
And nobody was surprised.
This kind of thing is exactly why I don’t think his other cases should be televised. He’s grandstanding for his audience, even though he doesn’t have an audience apart from those in the courtroom. He’s on verbal diarrhoea autopilot.
Have they tried buying him a Happy Meal and letting him play with the toy?
The judge cannot take the preening buffoon out of the seditionist.
Donald Trump knows he’s going down and is being as disrespectful as he can manage. Nobody should expect this to be pretty.
Trump was just asked his involvement in the 2021 financial statement. He tried to answer saying that he was busy with the presidency, focused on “China, Russia and keeping our country safe.”
Wallace, the state lawyer, reminded him that he was not president in 2021.
Could the judge just keep him in the stand until he finally answers the questions? Hours….. days…. Weeks… sort of like making him stand in the corner.
>“This is a very, very unfair trial, very. And I hope the public is watching it,” Trump quipped.
And this is why I agree with those who say the trials should not be televised. Trump WANTS a TV audience so he can campaign from the witness stand. Don’t let him.
He’s gonna have to get a walker to use as a sympathy prop at this rate.
NY AG lawyer: *Let’s turn to your golf club in Scotland. This states, 500 hectares, etc. Was this accurate, that you had permission for a residential village?*
Trump: *Yes, it’s the oil capital of Europe –*
Judge Engoran: *Irrelevant, irrelevant*
😂
😭
More examples of Trump’s senility giving way. Not able to answer questions. Rambling. Forgetting where he is at. 77 can be a tough age especially for someone of his ill health. Makes you really question if he is fit to run for office just based on mental capacity.
I don’t know how anyone can look at him and think he’s anything but crazy.
Find his lawyers in contempt and jail them
Has anyone ever been able to “control” Trump?
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
You don’t continuously beg a defense attorney to control their client. If they don’t comply, you hold them in contempt. Fuck the fact that he’s a former president. Treat him like anyone who behaves like an asshole in your courtroom.
Could the judge would call for a psychological evaluation since Trump is unable to stay on point and is verbally wandering and doesn’t even remember the dates of his presidency.
That stupid disgusting pig literally cannot stfu! He is that narcissistic!
Are brain spurs a valid defence?
Im reading the quotes at the link here and damn if it isnt just dumb shit the whole way down. At one point he straight up says his company was not required to follow GAAP. He goes on a tangent about his out of country stuff and takes a snipe at windmills while hes at it. The dude is taking this whole thing as a direct attack on himself and attacking anyone thats challenging him.
I know this has been said a lot but I don’t think we can say it enough:
We’re seriously fucked if someone as clearly mentally unstable as Trump not only was in The White House once but actually has a chance of getting back in. Even if he does lose in 2024 just the fact that there are people dumb enough to support him is terrifying
tRump is avoiding answering the questions by deflecting, denying, and blaming others. It’s his only option because telling the truth will be proving the prosecutors case.
I’ve waited so long for this and it’s magnificent!
If he wants to be jail. Give him what he wants
Warn him ONCE, then hold in Contempt of Court. Pretend he’s a non-white male being tried in the South. Enough BS!!!
Echos of the Alex Jones depositions. Jones often went on rants. He ended up owing 1.5 billion.
This is interesting. If they try to say he’s unwell or age addled or not fit to stand trial, then he’s surely not fit for office. (Which he’s not anyway)
To quote SyntheticSlime here on Reddit:
“Trump doesn’t understand laws. He understands deals. He comes from a world where everyone has a price. Where no one cares what you’ve done, only what you can do for them. It’s not that there are no rules. it’s just that when he gets caught it isn’t “oh shit, I’m fucked.” It’s only “alright, how much is this gonna cost me?”
Everything Trump and his attorneys have been doing this entire trial has been for the purpose of generating right-wing media headlines. They are in this courtroom campaigning. He is not there to answer questions, but to give quotes and soundbites to Laura Ingraham.
This is precisely why Jack Smith is right to block cameras in the DC trial. He should append an mp4 of this testimony to the motion he submitted to Judge Chutkan.
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***From Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramirez:***
Donald Trump was rebuked by Judge Arthur Engoron for giving “speeches” during his testimony on Monday before New York court in a civil fraud trial that will determine the future of his business empire. At one point Engoron warned the former president’s attorneys that he would dismiss Trump from the stand if they did not get him under control. “I beseech you to control him if you can,” Engoron said. “If you can’t, I will. I will excuse him and draw every negative inference that I can.”
The warning came after the judge repeatedly cautioned Trump against delivering political diatribes in lieu of answers. “Some of your answers have not been in response to the question,” Engoron told Trump earlier in his testimony, adding that prosecuting attorney Kevin Wallace had been “very patient.”
After repeated attempts to get Trump’s testimony back on track, Engoron told Trump’s attorneys that “this is not a political rally” and suggested that maybe they “need to have a talk with him right now.”
Read more: [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-testimony-new-york-fraud-case-off-rails-1234870774/](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-testimony-new-york-fraud-case-off-rails-1234870774/)
Judge to Trump’s attorney just now
> Judge Engoron to Trump’s attorney: “I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can’t, I will. I will I excuse him and draw every negative inference that I can.”
https://www.threads.net/@griffinkyle/post/CzT4_SgutED/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Video of Trump dejectedly leaving the courtroom during break: https://www.threads.net/@acynig/post/CzT4iEWxK3J/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Trump admitting he submitted “off” numbers:
from Katherine Faulders @KFaulders
> “Did you ever think that the values were off in your Statement of Financial Condition?” state attorney Kevin Wallace asked.
> “Yes, on occasion. Both high and low,” Trump said, appearing to surprise Wallace who paused to allow Trump to continue his answer.
Are you telling me that a pathologically lying narcissistic man-child can’t control himself in a controlled environment? It’s a good thing this guy never had a job that limited his authority
Can’t the judge declare Trump in contempt of court and put him in jail as the consequence?
It’s going to be difficult for a 120 pound woman to control a 300+ pound dumpster fire
Contempt; jail.
This is why Jack Smith doesn’t want the 1/6 trial televised
He’s doing this as a tactic. He knows he isn’t going to win the case so he’s painting himself as a martyr. He wants the judge to excuse him. He’s only scheduled for today. He wants the outcome to look like he spoke his mind and the judge unfairly ruled against him.
He’s accepting the loss in money and possible license. He’s willing to burn his NYC empire as a political sideshow because he wants the White House.
That’s what it seems like from all of the comments that are leaking.
And nobody was surprised.
This kind of thing is exactly why I don’t think his other cases should be televised. He’s grandstanding for his audience, even though he doesn’t have an audience apart from those in the courtroom. He’s on verbal diarrhoea autopilot.
Have they tried buying him a Happy Meal and letting him play with the toy?
The judge cannot take the preening buffoon out of the seditionist.
Donald Trump knows he’s going down and is being as disrespectful as he can manage. Nobody should expect this to be pretty.
Trump was just asked his involvement in the 2021 financial statement. He tried to answer saying that he was busy with the presidency, focused on “China, Russia and keeping our country safe.”
Wallace, the state lawyer, reminded him that he was not president in 2021.
Could the judge just keep him in the stand until he finally answers the questions? Hours….. days…. Weeks… sort of like making him stand in the corner.
>“This is a very, very unfair trial, very. And I hope the public is watching it,” Trump quipped.
And this is why I agree with those who say the trials should not be televised. Trump WANTS a TV audience so he can campaign from the witness stand. Don’t let him.
He’s gonna have to get a walker to use as a sympathy prop at this rate.
NY AG lawyer: *Let’s turn to your golf club in Scotland. This states, 500 hectares, etc. Was this accurate, that you had permission for a residential village?*
Trump: *Yes, it’s the oil capital of Europe –*
Judge Engoran: *Irrelevant, irrelevant*
😂
😭
More examples of Trump’s senility giving way. Not able to answer questions. Rambling. Forgetting where he is at. 77 can be a tough age especially for someone of his ill health. Makes you really question if he is fit to run for office just based on mental capacity.
I don’t know how anyone can look at him and think he’s anything but crazy.
Find his lawyers in contempt and jail them
Has anyone ever been able to “control” Trump?
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
HOLD HIM IN CONTEMPT
You don’t continuously beg a defense attorney to control their client. If they don’t comply, you hold them in contempt. Fuck the fact that he’s a former president. Treat him like anyone who behaves like an asshole in your courtroom.
Could the judge would call for a psychological evaluation since Trump is unable to stay on point and is verbally wandering and doesn’t even remember the dates of his presidency.
That stupid disgusting pig literally cannot stfu! He is that narcissistic!
Are brain spurs a valid defence?
Im reading the quotes at the link here and damn if it isnt just dumb shit the whole way down. At one point he straight up says his company was not required to follow GAAP. He goes on a tangent about his out of country stuff and takes a snipe at windmills while hes at it. The dude is taking this whole thing as a direct attack on himself and attacking anyone thats challenging him.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-fruad-trial-today-news-2024-b2442308.html#post-1397794
He looks like a sick chimpanzee.
I know this has been said a lot but I don’t think we can say it enough:
We’re seriously fucked if someone as clearly mentally unstable as Trump not only was in The White House once but actually has a chance of getting back in. Even if he does lose in 2024 just the fact that there are people dumb enough to support him is terrifying
tRump is avoiding answering the questions by deflecting, denying, and blaming others. It’s his only option because telling the truth will be proving the prosecutors case.
I’ve waited so long for this and it’s magnificent!
If he wants to be jail. Give him what he wants
Warn him ONCE, then hold in Contempt of Court. Pretend he’s a non-white male being tried in the South. Enough BS!!!
Echos of the Alex Jones depositions. Jones often went on rants. He ended up owing 1.5 billion.
This is interesting. If they try to say he’s unwell or age addled or not fit to stand trial, then he’s surely not fit for office. (Which he’s not anyway)
To quote SyntheticSlime here on Reddit:
“Trump doesn’t understand laws. He understands deals. He comes from a world where everyone has a price. Where no one cares what you’ve done, only what you can do for them. It’s not that there are no rules. it’s just that when he gets caught it isn’t “oh shit, I’m fucked.” It’s only “alright, how much is this gonna cost me?”
Everything Trump and his attorneys have been doing this entire trial has been for the purpose of generating right-wing media headlines. They are in this courtroom campaigning. He is not there to answer questions, but to give quotes and soundbites to Laura Ingraham.
This is precisely why Jack Smith is right to block cameras in the DC trial. He should append an mp4 of this testimony to the motion he submitted to Judge Chutkan.