Explain Again Why Trump Won’t Attend The Trial This Week

'Scam': Trump throws a fit over rape case just hours before E. Jean Carroll testifies https://t.co/nFU40Qauf2

— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 26, 2023

Do you really need to know exactly what he said?

Tacopina can’t let him in the courtroom. Tacopina can’t put him on the stand. And he can’t afford not to do those things.

“Not being in court” doesn’t mean what Trump thinks it means:

Connecting the two threads here:

This is shaping up to be a protracted issue this morning, and perhaps, on ongoing one throughout the trial if Trump keeps posting. https://t.co/bLxQ3IcOtk

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 26, 2023

Tacopina says he'll ask him to "refrain from any further posts regarding this case."

Judge: "Well, I hope you're more successful," adding that Trump "may or may not be tampering with a new source of potential liability."

"And I think you know what I mean."

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 26, 2023

I can see this is going to require frequent updates:

Carroll's lawyer argues Trump's Truth Social posts violate two court orders, not to discuss the lawyers or the DNA issue.

Judge presses Trump's lawyer on the latter issue: "[Trump], for three years, refused to give a DNA sample, and now he wants it in the case?" https://t.co/CbOT7IGDZ0

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 26, 2023

Judge Kaplan says that Trump seems to be trying to communicate to his supporters, or even perhaps jurors, about issues that aren't supposed to be part of the case.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 26, 2023