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Trump 'Rehearsed' His Unhinged Fraud Trial Rant for Days Before the Judge Shut Him Up
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Days? Fucking years. He's been reciting this shit for years.
as if Engoron's going to be like... "OMG, that changes everything. If I'd only known BEFORE I DECIDED YOUR CASE ON IT'S MERITS BEFORE THE TRIAL ROFLS, OH DONNY CAN YOU FORGIVE US?"
he's so persucted. such a sad stable genius.
But...no one thinks it was for the judge. Other than to potentially provoke the judge into something that would possibly help with an appeal.
But this was about Trump's ego, and about campaigning to his base.
Every time his defense has produced an argument or motion it's built up like this perry mason moment, and uniformly the response from the Judge has been 'no, that's not legal, that's not how any of this works, goddamn no' so of course, yeah, the performances are for his base. But the theater, the act being played, is "oh man trump made this awesome closing statement and the judge didn't even listen to him -" expecting Engoron to flip the laws of justice because Donny Mason's legal skillz with his closing statement were just that fucking persuasive.
They live in a dream world, that's what I was attempting to depict.