Donald Trump Continues To Tear At The Fabric Of The Judicial Process

New Trump video could be bad news as he considers taking stand in defamation case: experthttps://t.co/bxO50tAQHb

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According to a report from NBC News, the deposition was conducted as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James' financial fraud investigation. The release of the video clips came almost a year later. 

The report has led to the resurfacing of the previously released 479-page transcript that Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan will now want to review, explained the legal analyst. 

"That deposition was incredibly damning for him and so too on this are some admissions that can prove damaging to him," she told host Chris Jansing, before noting his bragging about his wealth in the video may be germane to the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial "awarding punitive damages." 

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"This jury is allowed to consider how much Donald Trump is worth," she explained, "because if you're trying to punish someone if they only have $10 in their pocket, that's very different than punishing someone who has hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in their pocket. 

"So, if I'm Robby Kaplan and her team representing E. Jean Carroll right now, I'm poring over this video and thinking about how to use it if Donald Trump, indeed, takes the stand on Monday."

Or, you know, not.

Trump is so stupid he’s his own worst enemy. And Habba has exposed in court Trump’s dirty little secret: his lawyers suck.

Even if Trump wins in November, he’s still liable for all the civil judgments against him. He may want to try these cases in the political arena, but that doesn’t win in court, and his braggadocio is just going to continue to bite him in the ass. The more he brags that MAL is worth billions, for example, the more likely the court monitor is to sell it for payment of the inevitable judgment against him and his companies (not that that would be easy, but does Trump have the money for that new legal fight?). The more he brags about his wealth, the more likely the Carroll jury is to return a large judgment for punitive damages.

Trump may appeal those damages, but the federal rules would require a supersedeas bond of the amount of damages, plus interest. 

His mouth is writing checks his ass can’t cash. I find it hard to consider such a person dangerous, except to himself.