“HITLER’S BOLD PLANS FOR EUGENICS LAWS”

Trump: As President, I can order assassinations of my political enemies and not be prosecuted!
New York Times: BOLD ARGUMENT, SIR!
Me: 🙃 pic.twitter.com/2966d8Tn94

— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) January 10, 2024

Will somebody please take the shovel away?

Also, too, as well:

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial disrupted the former president’s plan to speak on his own behalf during closing arguments this week. Trump would be barred from delivering “a campaign speech” and could not attack, the judge said. https://t.co/bn4AYh0v81

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 10, 2024

What actually happened is, Trump’s lawyers asked permission for Trump to speak at closing arguments. Closing arguments is a chance to make your case one last time but, like everything in court, there are rules.

The judge agreed to allow Trump to speak (which was unusual and to his credit) but said Trump had to follow the rules. He wasn’t free, IOW, to say whatever crawled across the barren wasteland of his mind in the moment. The judge set those rules and waited for Trump to accept them. When Trump didn’t respond, the court denied his request. Trump was not quashed, squashed, silenced, barred, denied, muzzled, stifled, folded, spindled or mutilated. He was told the rules, and he wouldn’t accept them. 

Courtrooms run on rules.

Now Trump is claiming he’s been silenced and denied his rights and had his chance to speak unduly withdrawn. Nope. The judge didn’t “disrupt” anything. He told Trump the conditions. Whatever plan Trump had to speak always depended on accepting the court’s conditions. Trump refused to accept them; end of discussion.

Trump did this to himself, so he could be a “victim” again. Being a victim means people will send him money. And it’s all about the money. It’s all about the grift.

His fundraising has skyrocketed when he's been indicted," Rubin said. "With each court appearance in that same case, he has to manufacture a new grievance to keep the grift going and it hasn't been as successful for him as it has been the first time." 

Rubin argued the more Trump's four criminal cases extend into the legal nitty-gritty, and away from the legal drama of arraignments and mug shots, the less powerful they'll prove when it comes to campaign finance. 

"To my mind, he's already sputtering, we're already past the crescendo," Rubin said. "The crescendo may have been the indictments from last summer."

And the grift always wears out.

Give me a break. The three seconds he spent thinking about her was deciding which hole she was going next to at Bedminster. pic.twitter.com/9gmTBDcjNX

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 10, 2024

He doesn’t have to attend closing arguments. What are the odds he stays away and tries to get cameras watch him complain, rather than comfort his wife in private?