“It’s clear Trump wanted to avoid the bloodbath of a cross-examination but wanted to say something”

Former President Donald Trump spent just three minutes on the witness stand Thursday in his defamation trial brought by E. Jean Carroll, using his testimony to declare that he backs his prior deposition denying the writer’s claims.

As Trump left the courtroom, according to The Messenger’s Adam Klasfeld, he complained to the press in the gallery, saying, “It’s not America. It’s not America. This is not America.”

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    9 months ago

    Back in the day, a lot of authentic cowboys headed to Hollywood to work as stuntmen. She’s kind of like those cowboys; an actual lawyer playing the role of a lawyer.

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      You give her way too much credit. I’ve never taken the bar exam, but, based on having known some very stupid lawyers I am guessing several things:

      1. There are different levels of difficulty in each state since each state has its own bar exam.
      2. If you are stupid but have a decent memory, you can pass it because it doesn’t require creative thought.
      3. If you can’t even do that, but you’ve got enough money, you can pay the right people in certain states and “pass” their bar exam.

      Habba is just clearly stupid. I don’t know why people are suggesting anything else.

      She even essentially admitted as much.

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        1 and 2 are more likely. It’s pretty damn hard to bribe your way past the bar, you’d have to pay a lot of people and trust none of them care about their careers or potentially getting prosecuted.

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            I’m actually curious how you’d even do it logistically. There’s like three separate sets of people minimum for the tests, a whole anonymous grading system you’d have to game somehow and for that I’m pretty sure the person grading doesn’t know the number of the paper they’re grading, and then the actual admissions committee. I guess you could just bribe the admissions committee and have them fake a result but, again, there’s a separate national multistate test whose results get factored in. Maybe pay someone to take the test for you but the chances they get caught are…medium.

            The more I think about it, it’s actually easier to just memorize law and pass the bar.

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        9 months ago

        Look at Boebert and Sarah Palin. Neither is a scholar, but both won office. If you use what you have to get what you want, you’re smart in my book. I wouldn’t want her as my lawyer, but she’ll probably end up a TV pundit with a six figure salary.