Donald Trump's colossal admission during trial

A plausible sounding article I read stated that his lawyers knew from the start that they didn't have a chance of winning anyway. This whole thing is just theater to try and stall as long as possible to buy time until the election.

I'm sure they've already got plans to cheat their way to a "victory" on that front as well.

His own lawyers declined to question him lmao Knew he'd just make things even worse.

Hope they got paid up front...

I'm beginning to think MAGA stands for make attorneys get aneurisms.

His lawyer went to a law school that doesn't require LSAT scores 😆

She's been auditioning for a spot on Fox the entire time.

This is what fascists do. They co-opt the language of their political opponents, and divorce any meaning from the word.

The strategy is to deny their opponents the vocabulary they need to organize. This is part of the same strategy as burning books that teach black history and banning students from saying the word gay.

They never taught their slaves how to read either

That's not Trump not understanding what things mean, that's modern Republican messaging strategy. MTG literally just called a protest Tlaib led "an insurrection" last week. They water down words until they have no meaning anymore, and explicitly accuse the other side of what they're doing to feed the "both sides" narrative, and take weight off genuine accusations from Democrats or the media. They've been doing it for a while. They've also done it with "weaponization of government" recently and a few other words and phrases I can't think of right now. This is why people talk about Republicans being hypocrites and "projecting". They do it very much on purpose.

He's watering down the terms. "Fake news" is a perfect example. He completely stole the term and directed attention away from all the literally fake news websites created to help his election.

He's a moron's idea of an intelligent man.

You don't have to be smart to be a conman. And being not the brightest bulb in any room, might actually help Trump doing what he does best (conning people): ethical or non gullible people are very quickly put off by him, leaving him surrounded by unethical people who have no qualms enabling him (as long as they believe that they stand to gain from it) + gullible people that can be milked for all their worth. This is why it was such a smart move for Trump to leave the democratic party and become a republican: the republican party loves gullible voters + unethical fellow travellers. Basically the same reasoning as to why spam phishing mail is so obvious usually: scammers don't want to waste their time on non gullible people.

He's genius is in his ability to market himself. the fact that he is a moron just means he's often stumbling on stupid shit that will resonate with morons, and he has that keen sense to take advantage of it.

Trump's defense strategy: "No, YOU!"

Now they don’t have to prove his intent. It just makes the case that much easier; no way the defense can raise questions about errors or revisions.

Not that it would matter much, but it basically eliminates any possibility of arguments around it, futile as they may be. Which means there’ll be no time wasted on it (or at most, less time wasted on it).

Just because something seems obvious doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary to prove it.

It proves the element of intent for the remaining six charges, including conspiracy.

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It's a civil case so unfortunately this won't result in jail time. A few good things can come out. First he could lose money and potentially properties in New York. He could also lose the ability to run a business in New York. Lastly, if he keeps saying and doing dumb shit there is a good chance that some of that helps the criminal cases he's been arrested for. Then hopefully we put him in an old fashioned oubliette and we can all move on.

I read most of it. The summary in the post is all you need. The article just restates it a bunch and shares Twitter posts.

It seems obvious and therefore like not a big deal. but it was a critical step for the prosecution to make their argument. Basically "these statements were meant to get a loan". They've already demonstrated that the statements were false, and that they knew they were false. Final step is to show that they made the false statements to either get a more favorable loan- or because an honest statement wouldn't have succeeded.

When someone's on trial for a crime, the state often needs to prove the person intended to commit the crime. Trump saying he intended to use those documents to secure a loan proves intent.

The court has already established the documents contained knowingly false information, with the residence that Trump has lived in for decades being listed as 3x its actual size. Even conservatively, his property holdings were overestimated by $812 million. The judge ruled there was no way that could be considered an accident.

So the court has ruled that the documents are knowingly false, and now Trump stated he intended to use them to get a loan. No lawyer in the world could get Trump out of this one.

It’s the combination of inaccuracies and intent that is the key.

All these morons like yourself don’t understand shit about these court cases but you sure feel confident in sharing your uneducated opinions!

Do yourself a favor, check out Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner, legal AF, or the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s The Breakdown: the Trump indictment

Maybe you’ll actually realize what is going on instead of going by clickbait titles in the media

Yeah, I'm not sure what the news part about this is. This feels like it's building to something newsworthy but isn't itself newsworthy. It's not exactly shocking that the person applying for a loan wanted a loan.

To court to face sentencing.

Why?