After brashly declaring he wanted to #testify in his #criminal trial, it appears increasingly unlikely that #Trump will do so, as the #jury seems poised to hear #ClosingArguments next week.
Defendants rarely testify, because their #lawyers advise them that the risks of doing so, particularly when it comes to being questioned by prosecutors #UnderOath, are simply too great.
In a post on social media last night, Trump went after #JudgeKaplan:
“The Federal Judge in this Second Biden Political Opponent ‘Trial’ is extraordinarily hostile to me — Sadly, & I don’t know why, a 100% Trump Hater. He knows I did nothing wrong, but is looking to do a number on me. Only in America!”
#EJeanCarroll's #legal team on Fri questioned whether #Trump can even #testify — & showed his 5-min courtroom tirade in his fraud case to argue he wants to 'sow chaos'
Carroll's legal team also wants the judge to make Trump declare under oath that he understands:
*It's been established that he sexually assaulted her & #defamed her by lying about it.
*He's blocked from disputing it & will "conduct himself" accordingly
Giuliani Won't #Testify, Despite Pledge To 'Definitively Clear' His Name By Doing So
The former Donald #Trump election #lawyer talked a big game earlier this week about taking the stand in his own defense.
As the second half of his trial kicked off this week, Giuliani had told reporters that he would “definitively clear” his name by taking the stand and proving that his lies about two #Georgia#election workers weren’t lies at all.
Attys for #RubyFreeman & #ShayeMoss are urging the… panel to award the women $24M apiece for Giuliani’s #defamation …, which …ignited years of threats, professional & personal consequences & devastation of their #MentalHealth.
“He has no right to offer defenseless civil servants up to a virtual mob in order to overturn an election,” Gottlieb said during his closing argument. “The cost that has [been] imposed on Ms. Freeman & Ms. Moss, on all those he has deceived, & to the public confidence in our #democracy are incalculable.”
#Giuliani told reporters after court Wed that he intended to #testify in his own defense, but on Thurs morning his atty, Joseph Sibley, said the former prosecutor would not take the stand.
#HunterBiden appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning to offer to publicly #testify in #HouseRepublicans’ #impeachment investigation into his father, though he insisted he would not appear for the private #deposition they scheduled over his refusals.
#HunterBiden, who has been served a #subpoena to #testify, spoke to reporters outside the Capitol, across from a #House office building where #Republican lawmakers were waiting to question him behind closed doors.
“I am here,” Biden said. “Let me state as clearly as I can: My father was not involved in my business.”
“There is no evidence to support the allegations my father was involved in my business because it did not happen,” he added.
“Let me get this straight; After wailing and moaning for ten months about #HunterBiden and alluding to some vast unproven family #conspiracy, after sending Hunter Biden a #subpoena to appear and #testify, Chairman #JamesComer and the #Oversight Republicans now reject his offer to appear before the full #Committee and the eyes of the world and to answer any questions that they pose?”
What the Republicans fear most is sunlight and the truth.
We interrupt these dark messages full of never-ending glumness & despair with photos of a cat. His name is Beto and he’s a professional alligator hunter. If you don’t believe us, search the hashtag: #BetoTheAlligatorHunter#cats
Sources said Meadows informed Smith's team he had REPEATEDLY told Trump in the wks after the 2020 election that the allegations of significant voting #fraud coming to them were baseless, a striking break from Trump's prolific rhetoric regarding the election. #law