New ad taunts Trump to take stand in hush money trial - or admit he's a coward
Source: UK Independent
1 hour ago
Donald Trump has been taunted to take the stand in his New York hush money trial in a new advert which uses the former presidents own words against him.
The ad, from centre-left group Third Way, implores Mr Trump to take the stand or admit youre a coward by featuring a 2016 quote from the former president where he asks, If youre innocent, why are you taking the Fifth?
Mr Trump originally made the comment during a campaign rally about investigations into Hillary Clinton and her staff. Since then, the former president has changed his tune. He pleaded the Fifth Amendment during a deposition with the New York Attorney General in 2022 and has played a will-he wont-he game about testifying in his hush money trial.
Donald, why wont you testify? After all, you believe only guilty cowards take the Fifth, the voiceover mocks Mr Trump during the 30-second ad. The ad, titled Coward launched on Friday in the Palm Beach, Florida area where Mr Trump lives at his Mar-a-Lago residence, according to POLITICOs Playbook.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ad-coward-trial-stand-b2546989.html
MiniMe
(21,789 posts)Traurigkeit
(1,290 posts)flying_wahini
(7,723 posts)I hope it rings in his ears all night long, every night.
Traurigkeit
(1,290 posts)riversedge
(72,039 posts)Many still line the streets to greet him when he arrives at MAL after a trip. I shake my head!!
.......... The ad, titled Coward launched on Friday in the Palm Beach, Florida area where Mr Trump lives at his Mar-a-Lago residence,
BumRushDaShow
(138,067 posts)It was in one of those MSNBC "windows" with a caption of "political ad". She didn't comment on it so I'm not sure if that "window" allows for local affiliate ads or it was part of their programming to show it (I know during Ari's show, there are sometimes split screens of him waiting to go back on the air while local commercials are running in another window).
TomSlick
(11,592 posts)For what it's worth, it's almost always a bad idea for a criminal defendant to testify. Like any other criminal defendant, Trump has a right to not testify and require the prosecution to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.
No matter how vile he is, Trump is entitled to all the same constitutional protections as any other criminal defendant.
Irish_Dem
(55,692 posts)She is a consultant for high profile trials and was mainly talking about the hush money jury
and interpreting their non verbal behavior. And talking about jury psychology.
She says something interesting about Trump; she thinks he might testify.
Dues to his ego, he will want to get on the stand and make his case.
I agree with you that the probability is low, but she did have an interesting spin and thinks it's possible.
She has been working with court trials for decades.
TomSlick
(11,592 posts)Trump will have to ignore his lawyers to take the stand but it would be a mistake to underestimate his ego. It's dangerous to think yourself the smartest guy in every room.
Irish_Dem
(55,692 posts)And his ego is huge, as is his desire to speak out and run his mouth.
Maybe Dr. Blackman has a point.
I don't know if this is just her 2 cents or if she has heard some scuttlebutt.
onenote
(43,958 posts)candidates for the Senate and House.
KS Toronado
(18,745 posts)cstanleytech
(26,809 posts)Demobrat
(9,613 posts)He would never deliberately put himself in a position where he has to answer to another person. No way could his ego tolerate that.
Mawspam2
(835 posts)Sounds like a RFK Jr front group. No Labels wanna-bes?
Who's funding them?
BumRushDaShow
(138,067 posts)It was derisively known on DU as "Turd Way" and represented the position of the "blue dog Democrats" (social liberals but fiscal conservatives) and "neoliberals".
By MICHAEL KELLY SEPT. 26, 1992
Seeking to counter this week's Republican offensive portraying him as a leftist, tax-mad, big-government liberal, Bill Clinton today began an effort to once more position himself as a "third way" Democrat, neither of the left nor the right. At the same time, the Democratic Presidential nominee sought to turn President Bush's attack against him, depicting his opponent as a "do-nothing" President who is "out of touch, out of ideas and out of time," and who clings to the "stale, failed rhetoric of the past." Mr. Clinton introduced his new defense in a noontime address that was almost preachily earnest to a small crowd of invited guests at the University of Connecticut at Hartford, in West Hartford.
He echoed it, in a looser fashion, before a passionate, mostly young crowd of more than 10,000 people packed shoulder-to-shoulder near the historic Faneuil Hall here. 'A Can-Do Country'. "You cannot permit this election to be about false choices from America's past, about the same old categories, the same old boxes we try to put people in," Mr. Clinton said in West Hartford. "We are living in a new world, at the end of the cold war, and we have new challenges and new opportunities and we had better seize them, and we had better be willing to park all this aimless hot-air rhetoric at the door and deal with the people's problems and the people's agenda.
"I think this is a can-do country," he continued. "This should not be an election about the stale, failed political rhetoric of the past. If we let this be about tax and spend and trickle-down, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. This is about whether we have the courage to face up to the realities of modern life."
In truth, Mr. Clinton evinces no shame in discussing the Republicans' theory of trickle-down economics, which he mocks in most speeches. But his distaste for the words "tax and spend" is both profound and well-founded; the charge of liberalism, if it sticks, can be fatal to a Democrat seeking the White House.
(snip)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190301094321/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/26/us/1992-campaign-democrats-clinton-says-he-s-not-leaning-left-but-taking-new-third.html
The org is still there sort of sitting the background, so it is interesting seeing them resurface again (they pretty much got wiped out in 2010 with Democrats dumping the moderate and conservative Democrats, with those elected officials being replaced with Koch-fueled astroturf teabaggers) - https://www.thirdway.org/
Mawspam2
(835 posts)BumRushDaShow
(138,067 posts)I think some who followed the ideology morphed into (at least in Congress) what became the "Problem Solvers Caucus", and since I hadn't heard anything from them in years, I was surprised to see the name pop up again.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,553 posts)napping.