Posted on 06/21/2024 9:07:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I watched something on Friday that left me scratching my head, and maybe someone can sort it out for me. Doesn't everyone know the first rule when it comes to "Judge Judy" Sheindlin is: "Nobody messes with Judge Judy, period"?
CNN host Chris Wallace was certainly blindsided when he had the former TV jurist as his guest on the latest episode of "Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace," which is broadcast on the Max streaming platform on Fridays.
In a preview released before the show aired, Wallace asked Sheindlin what she thought of former President Donald Trump's legal tactics, but felt the need to begin his overwrought line of questions this way:
Donald Trump was indicted in four separate cases, and his legal strategy was pretty clear. He wanted to push all of the trials past the election.That kind of effort to just use procedural motions, whatever, is that the justice system working or is it the justice system being manipulated?
The host was stunned into silence by Judge Judy's answer, in which she directed a fireball of righteous indignation at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over the lawfare indictment (and eventual conviction) against Trump in the business documents fraud case. She also spoke as a business owner in New York City, frustrated by the violence she experiences there daily -- and as a taxpayer:
Watch:
Judge Judy goes off on DA Alvin Bragg for going after Trump for a non-crime while allowing criminals to run free in New York City. WATCH pic.twitter.com/jeBeA06oo5— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) June 21, 2024
Read: RedState's coverage of Trump's Manhattan Trial
She said:
I would be happier, as someone who owns property in Manhattan, if the District Attorney of New York County would take care of criminals who are making it impossible for citizens to walk in the streets and use the subway, to use his efforts to keep those people off the street, than to spend $5 million or $10 million of taxpayers' money trying Donald Trump on this nonsense.
That's my view. But I, as a taxpayer in this country, resent using the system for your own personal self-aggrandizement.
When the host asked her to clarify whether she meant Bragg, she said she did, adding, in exasperation: "If you look ... you had to twist yourself into a pretzel to figure out what the crime was. He [Bragg] doesn't like him [Trump]."
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But Judge Judy wasn't done destroying Wallace's efforts, when he tried to trap her by playing the "character" card about the former president, asking Sheindlin what she thinks of Trump. After a pause to think, she answered slowly, "What do I think of him? I think he was a good businessman, a real estate guy, and he was certainly terrific on 'The Apprentice.'"
But the best part was her answer to Wallace's direct question about how she felt about his time as president. She simply refused to be pigeonholed, as she replied, "I don't think that Donald ever should have been president; I don't think even Donald thought he was going to be president."
This might be something of a tangent, but her answer rang a bell for me. The late, great comedian/actor Norm Macdonald, who knew him "casually" from his reality show, said something similar in a pre- Election Day 2016 interview with Larry King--who was close friends with Trump. Norm, who did not think Donald Trump would be elected, said that he reckoned Trump was "playing a part," instead of seriously running for POTUS. He said later in the segment--wearing that grin that fans of the comedian know so well--that perhaps Trump doesn't "want to be president of the United States, as much as he wants to be the president of whatever room he's playing that night."
Food for thought.
If you would like to watch it, there's a slightly longer clip of the Wallace interview here.
Smartnews on my cellphone had an article by a Dan Nicholson in Certainly New(?) that said many accountants can’t property categorize expenses.
I was not able to find it again.
No doubt Chris Wallace felt perturbed, flummoxed and appalled at Judge Judy telling it like it is.
When are they going to throw Fat Alvin in jail?
“Donald Trump was indicted in four separate cases, and his legal strategy was pretty clear. He wanted to push all of the trials past the election.”
Chris could have phrased it better: Biden indicted his political opponent on 4 separate cases and his legal strategy was clear. He wanted to try them all during the 2024 campaign while instituting a gag order.
Chris Wallace is such a hack.
He tries very hard to be a leftist shill but still gets back benched on CNN. lol
Hopefully soon.
“Smartnews on my cellphone had an article by a Dan Nicholson in Certainly New(?) that said many accountants can’t property categorize expenses.”
That’s like saying many fish cant swim.
Trump is the UBER PATRIOT and is willing to do what MUST BE DONE TO SAVE AMERICA!!
Chris is a DEMONRAT JERK!!!
Who? Chris Wallace. I thought he was in a Nursing Home.
Chris proved how somewhat conservative Mike Wallace was.
Rewind to 2016, and all the talk was about how it’s wrong to indict a candidate (Hillary Clinton) so close to an election. These people are shameless how easily they change their “principles” depending on the situation.
“...an article ... said many accountants can’t property categorize expenses.”
Except in this case it was proper. Categorizing a legal expense as a legal expense is about as proper as it gets.
>>But the best part was her answer to Wallace’s direct question about how she felt about his time as president. She simply refused to be pigeonholed, as she replied, “I don’t think that Donald ever should have been president; I don’t think even Donald thought he was going to be president.”
So smart one minute and so stupid the next.
Judge Judy knows the law like the back of her hand.
Even she said “you had to twist yourself into a pretzel”
to figure out what crime Bragg was charging Trump with.
As Trump so often said (paraphrasing), Judge Judy for Supreme Court.
I watched the interview Chris Wallace didn’t look stunned to me
Excellent point. Of course, hypocrisy is one of the defining characteristics of leftists.
He tried to cut her off.
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