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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FYI...thegagline is an absolute POS troll!
Precisely.
Isn’t this trial based on illegal ex post facto banned by our US Constitution? passing a law after the fact and prosecuting it is what we’re talking about.
If no stain on your blue skirt, you must acquit.
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Isn’t this trial based on illegal ex post facto banned by our US Constitution? passing a law after the fact and prosecuting it is what we’re talking about.
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Apparently, because this is a civil lawsuit instead of criminal, the Constitution is allowed to be crapped on.
Our law system is extremely expensive & corrupt, it needs to be downsized & outsourced to the lowest bidder.
This is not a criminal trial, so there is no acquittal. Also, since it is a civil trial, the burden of proof is only a preponderance of the evidence (50% +1), not beyond a reasonable doubt, and a unanimous verdict is not required.
I believe that Changing laws after the fact is protected by the constitution. Even at the state and local level.
When will Trump grow up and stop acting like a clown.
The lawyer, Tacopina, should also be cited. He has no control over his client.
What a circus!
How so? If that's the case, why is this being heard in Federal court?
Thank you for clarifying.
What did Trump say that was clown-like?
Do you actually think that Trump and his lawyer should be cited for exercising their First Amendment rights to speak?
They changed the statue of limits on this ex post facto. Wouldn't that be a reason why to call this a "circus"?
I'll look for your answers.
laws are changed locally all the time...look at the new “no bail” laws in NYS..
The dress would HAVE to an issue....
TRUMP & HIS LAWYERS have a right to Discovery-—
The most persecuted man in American history shouldn’t shut up.
Trump has “met” MANY, Many people in his lifetime.
I do NOT fault him for NOT remembering this nutjob.
F that judge. Who gives a S what he says? Trump has first
amendment rights. She’s saying all she wants to in public.
27 years after the event, this woman decides now is the
time to come forward and take this to trial.
That dress is proof of nothing even if there is a match.
Who’s to say if what took place was consensual or not?
Nope! This is pure madness. Accepting this trial to
go forward already put this judge on record as an idiot.
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