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Trump tries wild new defence ahead of court appearance – live
(www.independent.co.uk)
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So his defense is to just say "not guilty - I didn't do anything wrong"? I mean, that's a perfectly valid plea to start with (as opposed to "guilty - I totally did that stuff"), but it's not a legal defense. If all his lawyers can muster during the trial is "our client says that he didn't do this and it's all a witch hunt" then he'll be going to prison for a long time.
I think the link is to the wrong update. If you scroll down there is another article stating he's going to say the boxes were planted.
Yep, here's the relevant update:
"Radical Right Lunatic" I am so confused haha
That confused me too. Is Trump trying to pretend he's a progessive now? "You can't arrest 'MAGA Trump' because I'm 'Progressive Trump' now. I'm a totally different person!"
It's projection. The purpose of this rant is to motivate radical right thugs to take care of his problem for him. Stochastic terrorism is all the rage now.
Don't worry, so is he.
That makes more sense. Well, at least so far as anything Trump says makes sense. I don't envy his lawyers trying to prove that the FBI came in and planted all those documents and that all the text messages and audio that they got from all the Trump employees' phones were faked as well.
It's easy for Trump to do this in a rally. He just yells "FAKE NEWS" and nobody asks him for proof. In court, though, his lawyers will be required to give factual evidence proving that the DOJ made everything up.
I wonder if this is why his recent lawyers quit and others are staying away. He's telling them "just lie in court and say it was all planted." Even the worst lawyer will know that this is a Very Bad Idea™.
Yeah I don't get the title. How is pleading "Not Guilty", which is what we expected, a wild defense?
It's the way he said it. Yes pleading "Not Guilty" is how things go. Trump makes it seem like after he says it, the judge will be like "understandable, all charges dropped."