Saturday, August 5, 2023

He can't help himself

Judge Chutkan may help him help.


Stupid fuck.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 08/06/2023:


UPDATE  08/06/2023 10:22 am:


Gee, I wonder why he thinks he can't get a fair trial with Chutkan overseeing.


UPDATE 10:39 am:


Yeah, good luck with that.*

Actually this is all so he can whine when he loses the case.



UPDATE 08/06/2023 06:59 pm:


Two things: 
1) Absolutely that's what he's doing, and
2) Trump is his client.  They're just going to throw everything at the wall.  Think of it as a cheeseburger with ketchup in the Oval Office dining room.

*UPDATE 08/07/2023:  Who's "we"?
Hours later, his attorney John Lauro would publicly walk back that plan, saying Trump was speaking with a “layman’s political sense” and reacting primarily because Chutkan was nominated to the bench by a Democrat. (She was confirmed 95-0 by the Senate in 2014 after Barack Obama nominated her).

“We haven’t made a final decision on that issue at all,” Lauro said on a podcast hosted by Florida defense attorney David Markus. “I think as lawyers we have to be very careful of those issues and handle them with the utmost delicacy.”

  Politico
In other words, the idea was actually only the orange menace's head.**
On Monday morning, Trump was again hammering on the recusal issue, calling Chutkan “the Judge of [special counsel Jack Smith’s] ‘dreams’ (WHO MUST BE RECUSED!).”

The back-and-forth on public airwaves and social media underscores the familiar tension between Trump and his legal team, which has been rocked by infighting, departures and conflicting advice in recent months.
In recent months? That's always been the case, and he changes his legal team about as often as normal people change underwear.
Lauro, the newest member of Trump’s team, is working with attorney Todd Blanche on the latest criminal case: charges that Trump conspired to derail the transfer of power to Joe Biden after the 2020 election. But already, Trump has tested Lauro’s public advice in a few ways — primarily by talking about the case at all, and often in incendiary ways.

“I think it’s a little bit different than our standard case where we would pull our hair out if a client commented on a prosecutor or a judge,” Lauro said on Markus’ podcast.
Let's see how much hair you have when you leave the team.
“I have a responsibility, certainly, as an officer of the court to conduct the proceedings in a dignified manner, and I will do that at all times,” Lauro added. “To the extent that I can make any appropriate suggestions to a client, I do. But as we know, David, sometimes clients follow our suggestions, sometimes they don’t.”

**UPDATE 08/07/2023 02:55 pm:  Ooops.  No.  Lauro came out with it, too.



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