Trump defense moves for mistrial amid Stormy Daniels' testimony

[Wednesdays]

Banner now on CNN. They're saying that after Stormy testified, TSF can't get a fair trial.

[wryter2000]

1. Grounds for appeal?

That will be refused, but they can use it to argue for an appeal. If he's convicted, he's going to appeal. We knew that.

[emulatorloo]

2. More info on their "reasoning." Highly doubt it will happen.

Trump lawyer moves for a mistrial

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-hush-money-trial-day-13-live-updates-rcna150793/rcrd41229?canonicalCard=true


Adam Reiss and Rebecca Shabad
Trump lawyer Todd Blanche said the defense team moves for a mistrial based on the testimony from Daniels this morning.

Blanche argued that the guardrails were thrown aside and the testimony was unduly prejudicial to Trump and the charges in the case. He said her testimony about her encounter with Trump in 2006 is much different from the stories she was telling in 2016.

He said that her testimony has nothing to do with the case and argued that the only reason prosecutors asked about the encounter aside from embarrassing Trump was to inflame the jury.

"What's the jury to do with that?" he said. “It’s still extraordinarily prejudicial to insert safety — safety concerns into a trial about business records.”

"There's no way to unring the bell in our view," he said.

[Freethinker65]

9. Actually, why he was paying her hush money is important.

If he was just paying her to not divulge because it could/would affect the election, the way he paid her off was a crime. If he did it to protect himself because he wants to cover up he is a self serving serial sexual harasser, but it had nothing to do with the election (could harm future business matters, marriage, etc), it isn't a federal crime?

Testifying she felt pressured into having sex in his room when she was hoping he was honest about just talking business isn't really getting into the sexual acts. Without at least minimally describing what took place, the defense could just say she was extorting him for something that never happened and he decided, as wealthy powerful alpha men do (or some such BS), that it was cheaper to pay her off than take her to court. Stormy's recollection of what took place to warrant hush money is important to the case.

The defense is still free to argue Stormy made the entire thing up to extort Trump, and Trump felt giving her hush money to protect his reputation (nothing to do with election) was worth it. Of course, then the prosecution could enter all of the times Trump had bragged about his sexual prowess.

Good luck.

[getagrip_already]

3. seems she gets to fuck him this time... lol

And he isn't enjoying the experience.

[Maeve]

5. Turn about....

[Johnny2X2X]

4. LOL

This will fail instantly and it has everything to do with the case.

[malaise]

6. Eff Smelvis and his team

Rec

[C_U_L8R]

7. Truth hurts

[moondust]

8. It could hurt his election chances!

Kill it now!!!

[Prairie Gates]

10. They're alleging breach of contract