Habba attacking the judge: But I was told to sit down today. I was yelled at and I've had a judge who is unhinged slamming a table. I don’t tolerate that in my life, I’m not going to tolerate it here pic.twitter.com/u6Sgd7dnqA
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 6, 2023
It took me forever to figure out what left me so bored and uninspired as a blogger following what should have been a BFD: the former president taking the stand in his own defense at the bench trial that he already...well, lost, to fight for whether he could continue to do business in the state he once called "home".
It was predictable. Trump, after all, is a guy who said that the Emmy Awards were rigged against him. The Nobel Peace Prize is rigged against him. The 2016 Presidential election (that he won) was, nevertheless, rigged against him. The 2020 Presidential election was rigged against him, according to him, in various horrible ways. All these court cases that he has, in fact, managed to catch by the actual sweat of his very own brow, are supposedly "rigging" the 2024 contest.
In Trump's world, if the results of any process are unfavorable to him, Donald J. Trump, Stable Genius, then, obviously, the process is the problem. And in the clip above, there's his lawyer, Alina Habba, complaining about how unfair the judge was to her, for admonishing her to sit her behind down when she was out of order and um, she did sit down because there was nothing the judge did wrong there.
The strategy of the defense seems to be to create the appearance of bias in the court by doing their level best to be infuriating. Trump's actual testimony, when not an accusatory rambling, is actually pretty self-incriminating. And sometimes it's just off the wall dissembling, like Trump maintaining he was busy protecting the US from China and Russia in 2021 when he was not actually president, or claiming he paid back every one of his loans when he seriously did not. (But can you trust that last story I linked to? It's from Forbes you know, and they are his haters. Trump says so!)
Alina Habba wants to know what she is being paid for as she takes Justice Engoron's statements in court out of context. He wants to hear the answers to questions being asked of the defendant, not speechifying, as she should very well know. But what she is being paid for, even if the "paid" part may be aspirational, is to make a mockery of the courtroom process she was trained to participate in.
It's the Trump strategy. Poor Little Trump never did nothing wrong. Everyone else is mean and picks on him and his lovely children.
You think I'm kidding?
Yeah. The Von Trapped kids are grown adults who were officers of Trump's company and made good money at it, too. And I'm looking forward to hearing Lisle, I mean, Ivanka, sing tomorrow.
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I don't know if I hope that judge shows Ms. Habba just how judges behave when any other defendants and their attorneys behave the way this set is behaving, or if I hope he just says something and her education comes back to remind her how lawyers behave while in and out of court. Sheesh. I know I live in a small town, but even the youngest lawyers here know better than to disrespect a judge, or to discuss an ongoing case outside the courtroom, at all ever anywhere. Not to mention their behaviors while court is in session. I know formality is not what it used to be in general, but I don't think it's changed much in courtrooms; Trump's judges's qualities of mercy are being severely strained. That does not make them unhinged.
Why, that judge could walk into court today, and order Care and Treatment hearings for all three of them based on their behavior versus their educations, and that would not be unhinged. IMO.
He's shown admirable restraint and I think it's clear he's on to their game. I really think Trump was looking for a contempt charge yesterday, and Engoron didn't take the bait. I hope Trump's lawyers find what Michael Cohen and some of his fellow indicteds in Georgia have found out: Trump is the essence of crime, and it doesn't pay.
That was the plan along, he even told us so: lose to Hillary and make millions of dollars starting a televangelist station and claiming incessantly it was rigged.
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