Posted on 04/26/2023 9:00:54 AM PDT by thegagline
A Manhattan federal judge blasted Donald Trump’s “entirely inappropriate” posts on Truth Social Wednesday as witness testimony began in E. Jean Carroll’s civil rape case against the former president.
Trump, 76, took to his social media platform about an hour before the second day of trial began, claiming Carroll’s case was “a made up SCAM” and accusing her lawyers of being “political operatives.”
He also called for the dress the former advice columnist wore the day of the alleged rape to be brought into the trial — something that Carroll sought to do early on in the case to compare the garment against Trump’s DNA.
Judge Lewis Kaplan — who previously ruled that nothing about Trump’s DNA would come into trial — grilled the ex-president’s lawyer about the post before the jury was brought in, warning that the message appeared to be meant for the panel.
Your client is basically endeavoring to speak to his public, but more troublesome, to the jury in this case,” Kaplan said.
Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina brought up what he claimed to be a leak to the press from Carroll’s side — but Kaplan shut the argument down saying, “What you are trying to do is get away from a statement by your client that on the face of it seems entirely inappropriate.”
Tacopina eventually agreed to speak with Trump and “ask him to refrain from any further posts regarding this case.”
Still, the judge cautioned Tacopina that Trump could be adding on even more legal troubles for himself.
“We are getting into an area, conceivably, in which your client may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability and I think you know what I mean,” Kaplan warned.
*** Trump has not come to court for the first two days of trial.
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If he continues this conduct the judge will issue a gag order and if Trump persists, hold him in contempt.
New York literally had to change the law so that this trial came to pass.
LOL!
NYS created a Brand NEW law that overlooks ALL statutes of limitations....so going back about 30 years...is okay....just for this once.
Should probably wash the dress every once in a while
DNA on a dress, as was true in Clinton-Lewinsky, can be the result of consensual sex.
The “women must always be believed” clowns are at the DUmpster website.
Again, DJT can’t shut up.
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law….you know.
And then the more general axiom, “better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt”.
This is another politically motivated case being paid for by Trump's political enemies.
You would allow a nut job with fantasies about rape to air her case publicly to condemn Trump in the court of public opinion but not allow trump to defend himself publicly against her crazy accusations CNN pushed in a televised interview?
I personally have had enough of this one-sided lawfare and two-tiered system of justice. Until everyone is held to the same standard, I see nothing wrong with what Trump is doing, she made it public first and relished in it.
That was exactly my first thought regarding this "trial." The Constitution forbids a Bill of Attainder, but that is exactly what New York has done.
The Judge is the one in contempt.
The issue is clearly stale and politically motivated. The plaintiff had generations to say something and didn’t.
Case should have been thrown out long ago. Kaplan is the political opportunist here, not Trump.
Has Kaplan brought in Reid Hoffman? He’s the real “plaintiff”. Carroll is just a strawman.
Sham case, Sham judge.
I personally have had enough of this one-sided lawfare and two-tiered system of justice. Until everyone is held to the same standard, I see nothing wrong with what Trump is doing, she made it public first and relished in it.
Agree.
If I were a juror and the alleged victim waited 27 years to file a complaint, I would not be impressed.
Every male is exposed to this type of suit for what happened 30 years ago?
She’s a drooler like Monica?
Trump has to be careful with this. I’m sure she’s lying, but Trump had met Carroll socially on at least one other occasion, so tweeting “I don’t know her” isn’t true. That could be excluded from the trial, but if it’s allowed it hurts his case. Yet another time when tweeting makes trouble for Donald Trump.
Gag orders are supposed to be used tp protect citizens against the government.
I'll put you down as one who doesn't like the first amendment.
Does ANYONE believe they already snagged his DNA from the Mara Lago Raid (or a multitude of other places), and that DNA of Trump was found on her dress? Unless there’s semen stains, the DNA could have been (and probably was) PLANTED, or, incidental brushing against the material proves NOTHING other than being there in proximity. HOWEVER, with the NY Jury, he has no chance of a Fair Trial, anyway. (ALL of this charade in NY on Trump is merely to provide talking points to their Media Arm, and try to keep Trump off the Ballot.
This is another Russia farce.
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