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I don't know why people are acting like he won't...
This isn't taking the stand as a witness, this isn't presenting facts like a lawyer.
And his lawyers will still say everything they were gonna say anyways.
This is just trump knowing how much this will get his name out for something remotely positive. He isn't speaking to the judge, he's speaking to his followers. And this is going to bring in a shit ton of donations. He knows any sound bite is going all over national news for a day or two.
He can say whatever he wants and lie about whatever. And everyone has to listen to him, it's a captive audience of people that he believes hates him and are "witch hunting" him.
trump is gonna be a trumpet in a subway car.
First of all, he won't present facts.
Secondly, he is talking to the judge as there is no media allowed in the room.
Third, the judge can stop his blather anytime he wants to, which is the reason he won't do it.
Never said he would, in fact I said he'd lie...
You legitimately haven't read a single article about what was said in court?
And the media would be entirely about how the judge stopped him from speaking...
That'd probably be more donations than anything he could say.
He gets to have the hypothetical that whatever he was going to say would prove his innocence
He can't say whatever he wants, he has to stick to the case and what was presented
There also is a court stipulation that a fraud was committed, so he can't address that.
Do you honestly expect him to face actual consequences for breaking that rule?
Well, sort of actually. A judge's main job is to make sure that a trial is fair and everyone sticks to the rules. And they have pretty wide latitude for enforcing that. I'd be pretty surprised if Trump was able to start blathering on about Hillary or stolen elections or whatever in that setting.
And it plays out as expected. Judge makes sure he knows he can't say whatever he wants and now he doesn't want to do it.