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Trump says he will not testify at his civil fraud trial
Fox News ^ | Published December 10, 2023 5:16pm EST | By Stepheny Price Fox News

Posted on 12/11/2023 3:18:21 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines

Former President Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Sunday, that he no longer plans to testify at his civil fraud trial on Monday.

Trump had been scheduled to testify Monday as one of the final defense witnesses in a trial that has lasted two months and is entering its final week of testimony.

Court officials also confirmed to Fox News that Trump has notified the court that he is not testifying.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fraud; james; letitia; perjury; rino; trap; trump
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Smart move. Trump tends to ramble and you know they’d be setting him up for a perjury trap.
1 posted on 12/11/2023 3:18:21 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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There is no jury and the judge had his mind made up (against Trump) before the trial started.

Ergo, why in the world WOULD Trump testify?

2 posted on 12/11/2023 3:29:50 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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He will be found “guilty”. If some wacko bitch who calls “rape sexy” can come out of nowhere, claim Trump raped her in a high end dept store 30 years ago with no evidence, no witnesses, no videotape, no DNA and Trump is found liable for $5 million, then he has no chance with this.

What they are doing to him is absolutely outrageous and the RINOpublican party can go to absolute hell for sitting back and doing absolutely nothing about it.

And BTW what is this focus on Hunter Biden? TO HELL with Hunter Biden! Focus on ELECTION INTEGRITY 100% or this country is FINISHED!


3 posted on 12/11/2023 3:33:09 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: RoosterRedux

Exactly


4 posted on 12/11/2023 3:36:27 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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5 posted on 12/11/2023 3:58:37 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Headline broken.

“President Trump says he will not testify at his fraudulent civil trial.”

There. I fixed it for you.


6 posted on 12/11/2023 5:06:32 AM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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Don’t play the extreme far-left’s game. Send them a sticky note saying you are going to use the left’s tactic and take the Fifth. If they have anything they think they can prove, they need to put up or shut up. Far-left freaks.


7 posted on 12/11/2023 5:20:21 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The damage Biden and his freak show is doing to America is not reversable.)
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And New York City leftard jurors already hate him for defeating Hillary and for defying their beloved Deep State, and will hate his Orange Man-ishness even more if they see him in the flesh. Better to just win on the law and the evidence, if it’s possible to win in that forum. I doubt it is.


8 posted on 12/11/2023 5:59:03 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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Double for the “judge”.


9 posted on 12/11/2023 6:00:02 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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He has two chances to win in New York City. Slim to none. And Slim left town.


10 posted on 12/11/2023 6:05:52 AM PST by sport
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There was no crime. A raft of expert witnesses testified to that effect. Its going to get overturned on appeal so testifying would just be dumb.


11 posted on 12/11/2023 6:28:50 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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No doubt they would create a perjury charge over some nit-picky statement.


12 posted on 12/11/2023 6:38:02 AM PST by Raycpa
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It’s not criminal, but civil, and there are no damages. But if he testifies, the perjury trap they’re layingwill make it criminal.


13 posted on 12/11/2023 6:39:22 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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So all they can do is assess punitive damages with no actual material damages predicate for punitive. Easy appeal.


14 posted on 12/11/2023 6:42:48 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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Wise choice by PDJT. Don’t testify at the civil war trial.


15 posted on 12/11/2023 6:48:41 AM PST by Theophilus (It's far easier to rig a jury than an electionhe )
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For once Trump may be listening to his lawyers.


16 posted on 12/11/2023 7:13:32 AM PST by lee martell
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Democrat trial where you get a gag order not to speak the truth.


17 posted on 12/11/2023 7:48:35 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: Eleutheria5

did they establish a value of Mar A Lago? That should have ended the trial


18 posted on 12/11/2023 9:30:41 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
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Back when it was Wrigley Slut’s mansion, or when Trump got through making it into an awesome country club?


19 posted on 12/11/2023 1:23:43 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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It doesn’t matter what he says. The judge has already made up his mind.


20 posted on 12/11/2023 3:50:05 PM PST by DouglasKC
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