This is the anticipated result. It would have been the surprise development if Donald Trump had told his lawyer to proceed with a motion to reopen Carroll v. Trump and allow him to testify in his own behalf. The judge gave Trump until 5:00 p.m. Sunday to file a motion. That hour has come and gone and there is no motion. Therefore, closing arguments will be heard tomorrow. The Hill:
Trump’s legal team previously insisted he would not testify or show up to the proceedings, even after the former president said in Ireland last week he would “probably attend” the trial, claiming he was leaving the country early to do so. […]
The decision by Trump not to testify means his defense team will call no witnesses in the case. Carroll is suing Trump for battery and defamation after he has publicly denied an allegation from Carroll that he raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s. He claimed she made the allegations up in order to sell books.
Kaplan last week said if Trump did not appeal to the court to allow him to testify by the deadline on Sunday, “That ship will be irrevocably sailed.”
Trump needed to grandstand in Ireland and be the big shot but he likely never intended to actually show up. Let’s hope Jean Carroll prevails. She could get an award of $2.7 million. Nothing is enough to compensate what she’s been through but at least it’s something, right?
” the sky too is falling in on you…
It’s all over now baby blue”…Bob Dylan
I have to wonder which friend, (I really don’t think he has any left), will pay that award for him, maybe he has a few dollars left from the solid gold cash he has received from the Arabian desert … Also, I have to wonder how many pages of classified documents he has released to them already …
By the time NY City finishes with him, Smith and committees drop their bombs on him, he will be a whimpering slimy creature with his head in the corner, he will NEVER be able to run for the 2024 vote … With his arms crossed for protection in his 600 dollar suit, (only that expensive because of all the extra material used to sew it up down at the downtown TENT and AWNING shop … 🙂 🙂
Arms crossed will be a whole lot less effective in a bright orange jumpsuit, without his high-lift shoes on, just bright orange tennis shoes, he will shrink into that worthless toad he really is …
Darrel,
This is perfect. Trump is one of the biggest phonies who’s ever lived. His father propped him up as a child and young man, then after his father died, he lived on his name.
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Now he’s trying to prove that he’s something that he never was, but he has neither the character, competence, class, or intelligence to pull it off. With all his bluster and name-calling, he comes off looking like a geriatric 8-year-old engaging in a spitball fight in a sandbox.
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He is, without a doubt, the biggest embarrassment in United States history.
You are 100% right. Yet he is the frontrunner for the GOP nomination.
I’m getting the impression that, to make any headway in the GQP you have to be involved in a few crimes: extortion, theft, blackmail, fraud, perjury – the list goes on.
He will be a now known as a “Rapist”, not that his cult followers will give a damn. People have to wake up to this sick SOB and kick him to the curb!!!
Squirrel-Top Donnie is the ultimate fraud.
Very pleased the judge called the fat fascists bluff, made him look like the fool he is.