OMG LAWRENCE! HIS AND MERCHAN'S BRILLIANCE!

[ancianita]

He beat anything on cable news today.

[GoodRaisin]

1. He knocked it out of the park.

[ancianita]

2. Right out of New York!

[DaBronx]

3. Epic and riveting

Fully engaged in his show tonight.

[SouthBayDem]

4. I think this is the video

just uploaded by MSNBC a few minutes ago:

[ancianita]

13. Thank you.

[riversedge]

15. I missed this episode, Thanks for posting it.

[underpants]

18. Wow. That was quite a watch.

[jrthin]

29. Thank you!

[H2O Man]

5. Recommended.

Lawrence is the best, in my opinion.

[3catwoman3]

6. Catching this on the re-broadcast.

Lawrence is having entirely too much fun with this. I love his deadly, devastating but restrained and dignified contempt.

[ShazzieB]

22. So true.

He's been outdoing himself lately with his commentary on the trial. And I am so here for it!

[Pompoy]

7. The judge was great

Telling Trump's lawyer how bad at their job they were.

[wnylib]

8. Sounds like the IQs of the attorneys are not any higher than the Orange Turd's.

Count on Trump to use attorney incompetence in his appeal. He will say that, since the judge had to object on occasions when his own attorneys did not, that he did not have competent representation.

I am 100% sure that the Orange Turd insisted that his attorney open with a complete denial of ever having sex with Daniels. Trump's reasoning would be, "No sex, therefore no hush money payment and no juggling of the books." He thought that the denial of sex would nullify the charges completely.

His lawyers would probably have known that the denial would mean testimony from Daniels to refute it. He expected that his attorney would be able to embarrass and denigrate her like his attorneys who went after Fani. But it backfired and made the Orange Turd look bad, not Stormy.

But, as with everyone else in every other field, the OT knows more about legal strategy and the law than lawyers do, right?

[Irish_Dem]

9. Yes Trump is forcing his attorneys to do stupid things.

And then will use their incompetence as a reason to appeal.

Trump's lying, harassment and threatening behavior has been a successful strategy in the past.
But not working so well this time.

[claudette]

11. Yet, in

my opinion, the lawyers are the stupid ones for following his advice and lead. Dump is an orange turd with NO legal training. Any lawyer who does what the Turd tells them is worthless. in my view.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Unless it is a deliberate strategy to win on appeal.

Or get a mistrial for lack of adequate lawyering.

[Kaleva]

30. I've read the lawyers would have to be drunk or asleep for that to work

[Irish_Dem]

32. These attorneys are so bad I would not rule out drugs or booze.

They are supposed to be seasoned and excellent attorneys.
We could do the job better than they could.
At the very least we wouldn't piss off the judge every hour of every day.

[ancianita]

34. One other major consideration is that it's not because they're so bad, but that the prosecution is so excellent

in its handling of the argument/witness sequencing, that the defense has been easily outmatched.

[TSExile]

37. I think it's both.

You're both right!! I admit that I cracked up every time Lawrence uttered "orange turd" when he read the court transcript. We're all still in the third grade, I guess.

[ancianita]

38. In tandem, yes.

We only laugh at and with Lawrence because we know we're winning the national case against the turd and his turd rate base.

[Irish_Dem]

39. No, that is not the reason.

Yes the prosecution is excellent.

But the judge in this case has to keep admonishing the Trump attorneys.
In some cases he even has to step in and do their jobs for them.

And a witness with a high school education and no legal training can make mincemeat
out of Trump's attorneys.

The Trump attorneys are bad, very bad.

[ancianita]

40. Agree that they're bad in THIS case, against THIS judge and prosecution, but they've got good reps for a reason.

More past practice -- which has not helped them with THIS client in THIS case.

Which makes THIS trial all the more a joy to behold, because Blanche will lead tsf's next case as a beaten lawyer before the Smith team.

[Irish_Dem]

41. Their excellent reputations are now shattered.

Trump destroys everything he touches.

[ancianita]

42. So true. By the time Smith enters a courtroom, he'll mop whoever's left in America who'd

defend the devil.

Looking forward to the many movies and books about the Biden/Harris era.

[TSExile]

43. TSF has the reverse Midas touch.

Right???

[Irish_Dem]

44. Yes he does.

[ariadne0614]

12. I'm not a lawyer, but

. . .it crossed my mind that the OT’s attorneys only agreed to do it his way if he signed a waiver going in.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Signing a document stating you are going to be a bad lawyer?

And not mount an adequate defense.

They put themselves in a no win situation, I would not put that in writing.

[ariadne0614]

21. Oh.

I guess it occurred to me because way back in the late 80s, my divorce lawyer required that I sign some sort of waiver, promising not to ever sue him for not making the maximum demands he thought I was entitled to.

[Irish_Dem]

25. Trump would not sign such a waiver, ever.

And even if he did, he would not honor it.

[ecstatic]

19. Yes, but the good news is he'd be just as stupid during his appeal

His behavior and crazy demands won't magically improve during an appeal.

[Irish_Dem]

31. But he will have a different judge.

That is what he wants.

[ancianita]

14. Totally agree.

Why he believes he knows better than his lawyers is his 'experience' with over 4,000 suits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_and_business_legal_affairs_of_Donald_Trump

[wnylib]

20. And Trump uses the same style of learning about the law

as he did when sent to a military a academy by his parents when they could no longer handle him. Two Washington Post reporters wrote a book on Trump's background during the 2016 campaign. I don't remember the book's title now or the names of the authors. But I do remember that their research included interviews with people who had known him at various stages in his life, including former classmates and former neighbors of his family in Queens.

Trump's parents sent him to a military academy after he had been picked up by police more than once as a teen while hanging out with a group of thugs in Manhattan. People who knew him at the school said that he learned the discipline rules very well in order to present an image of compliance while using his knowledge of the rules to circumvent them as often as possible .

That's his approach to law.

[teach1st]

24. "Trump Revealed"

I believe the book is "Trump Revealed" by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher. The Washington Post has made public the documents driving the reporting, including interviews.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-revealed-book-reporting-archive/
No paywall: https://archive.is/1cszO

[wnylib]

26. Yes, that's the book. Thanks for the memory jog.

[ancianita]

35. Yep.A kid like that is definitely one to have a Roy Cohn later as his chosen father who taught him that approach to law.

[ShazzieB]

23. He's always telling us that he knows more than anybody about everything.

So of course he knows all about legal strategy!

See for yourself:

[PCIntern]

10. Brilliant. Perfect.

K and and gigantic R

[BeyondGeography]

27. How about Stormy's brilliance?

The way she parried those orange turd questions was nothing short of masterful.

[ancianita]

36. Indeed. She was also part of the masterful prosecution team that's winning.

[LiberalFighter]

28. He was in court and observed it.

Big difference with just having only a transcript.

But a transcript is much better than the synopsis MSNBC provides in the side panel.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. Orange Turd is in the trial transcript

Link to tweet