A Stopped Clock 🕰️

Trump: I’d be very proud to go to jail for our constitution pic.twitter.com/jbKFF2rxyh

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 10, 2024

 Tell that to Allen Weisselberg:

Prosecution: We’re looking to explain to the jury, from our perspective, why Weisselberg isn’t here…there are three payments due to Weisselberg this calendar year…if you look at the agreement in section 3b, "employee promises not to denigrate company verbally or in writing or…

— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) May 10, 2024

Weisselberg’s free speech is curtailed by his severance agreement.*  But that doesn’t affect Donald Trump, so…

(And I still don’t understand how going to jail for contempt would involve the Constitution. If it weren’t reversed, it would be because of abuse of discretion, not First Amendment grounds.)

Trump: Legal expense to a lawyer, called it a legal expense. What else would you call it? pic.twitter.com/fGAgsQO0h3

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 10, 2024

That’s exactly what the jury is going to decide. It’s no longer up to you.

Trump: It all comes out of Washington, they have their reps here pic.twitter.com/eRxXQhcNAc

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 10, 2024

In state court? In New York?

Trump again attempts to take credit for the stock market rising. He then claims the market will crash if he doesn’t win.

“I’ve been right about everything” pic.twitter.com/sXkmAfSdvK

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 10, 2024

A stopped clock is literally right more often.

Trump: The case is not about all of the other stuff you’ve been seeing because we’re using that to attempt, it’s had no impact because it’s so old, attempt to do something to me politically pic.twitter.com/G5ktY42SUr

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 10, 2024

Argle bargle whoosh? Is it sundown already?

*and the connection, should you care to chase, is that the Court, as an arm of the state and so subject to the Constitution, could enforce that provision, and punish the party who violated it.