I Was Wrong

Trump’s rant about Mazars ‘will not serve him well’ in court: former prosecutorhttps://t.co/mJcQYEYOKn

— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 17, 2022

Well, I was right, the prosecutors and the courts don’t care about the attitude or the opinion. But they do care about the facts stated in that four page spew:

"It is not unusual for parties to a legal proceeding to disagree about the facts," James' office wrote. "But it is truly rare for a party to publicly disagree with statements submitted by his own attorneys in a signed pleading -- let alone one day after the pleading was filed."

That’s from a court pleading filed today by the New York AG. But I don’t have to explain it, someone else already has:

"Rarely within a day or ever do you see a counseled client, or target of an investigation, come out and make admissions that go both to knowledge and to intent," Perry said. "He has contested some facts that he, through his lawyers, have alleged in the proceedings, against the attorney general's office, including his knowledge of the financial statements, his understanding of the business, its assets, its values and the like. He just, in his answer, a short while ago, contested any knowledge of those things — and then made this public statement that shows not only was he aware that the financial statements could not be relied upon, but he also showed this intimate familiarity with a lot of the underlying assets and values of them, that will not serve him well going forward."

No, it really won’t.

"And here he is in a publicly filed statement, saying actually I do know, to the extent anyone maybe thought he didn't understand the value of the brand, here he is saying it in his four-page statement over and over and over," Perry said. "So the attorney general seized on it immediately, put that in front of the judge to say, 'Judge you shouldn't listen to anything they're saying in their answer. You should go ahead and order these depositions to take place immediately.'"

What judge could resist such a request? Especially given the attitude in those four pages? And his lawyers are probably thinking this is a good time to get out of this case.

I would be.