Donald Trump is now claiming he wanted to testify Monday in his New York civil fraud trial but couldn’t because of a gag order in place.However, the gag order only bars him from disparaging the court staff.
  • Nougat@kbin.social
    100·
    11 months ago

    I followed the link to ShitSocial so you didn’t have to:

    I wanted to testify on Monday, despite the fact that I already testified successfully, answering all questions having to do with the Fake, No Victims, No Jury lawsuit, thrown at me by the Corrupt Racist A.G., Letitia James, and presided over by a Trump hating judge who suffers from a massive case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and is a puppet for the CROOKED A.G. Anyway, the Judge, Arthur Engoron, put a GAG ORDER on me, even when I testify, totally taking away my constitutional right to defend myself. We are appealing, but how would you like to be a witness and not be allowed free snd honest speech. THE TRIAL IS RIGGED. I DID NOTHING WRONG!!!

      • ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee
        57·
        11 months ago

        Every time I flew back into the country and saw his stupid picture in the airport it made me cringe and say “oh fuck, that’s right, somehow Biff Tannen, from Back To The Future 2, is our President”

      • nocturne213@lemm.ee
        251·
        11 months ago

        To be fair, he lost the popular vote twice. It was only because of the electoral college he won. The people of the USA did not, as a majority, vote for him. The people who are supposed to represent our votes voted for him.

        • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
          4·
          11 months ago

          Yes, that’s true and a big reason I don’t paint a Americans with the same brush (in addition to this being generally intellectually lazy).

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        18·
        11 months ago

        I live in New York City. Donnie was desperate to get famous since the 1980s. Back in the day, Wife #1, Ivana, was the star of the show and Donnie was the guy who carried her bags. He did everything to get his name in the local news every day, and was considered a joke by just about everyone. He lost his home town by 90% of the vote.

        • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
          6·
          11 months ago

          Growing up, I knew of him as a desperate for attention blowhard as well. You didn’t need to be from NYC to know that but it says a lot when you guys did that (no votes) because you know him best.

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
            7·
            11 months ago

            There’s an old political term in the USA. ‘Favorite son candidate.’ It means that anyone, of any Party, can usually count on winning their home district. As an example, Republicans in Georgia voted for Jimmy Carter. Also, New Yorkers are a contentious lot who seldom agree 90% on anything.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          The American stereotype? Definitely an American stereotype (monopoly guy shithead), but there’s also broke ass honky, California dude, and cowboy goat fuckers.

          It’s a big place.

            • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
              2·
              11 months ago

              A long time ago I had a job cooking at a hotel in Switzerland (am Canadian). As a more junior person I’d get stuck working buffet stations and lots of Americans assumed the staff didn’t understand English. Anyway, my favorite thing was how the Americans would freak out because menu prices were not in US dollars. Lol. Harmless but indicative of a certain worldview.

      • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        11 months ago

        And they are lining up to do it again. It’s absolutely baffling to me but at least it’s gotten a lot easier to identify idiots from a distance.

    • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
      46·
      11 months ago

      This reads like a Chinese Amazon listing where they just fire off dozens of loosely related words and key phrases to increase traffic.

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
      241·
      11 months ago
      • Fake - I’m pretty sure it’s quite real.
      • No Victims - “Your honor, I didn’t successfully rob the bank, so there were no victims!”
      • No Jury - Bro, you opted not to have a jury trial.
      • Gag order…taking away my right to defend myself - Your defense of the facts requires that you attack the judge and his staff?
      • I did nothing wrong! - That’s for a court to decide. Also, you broke your golden rule: never do yourself what you can order someone else to do. Mob Boss 101.

      Thank you for your sacrifice, btw.