As we speak, the impeachment trial is on a brief recess, after the House managers have presented their evidence. It’s to be seen what Bruce Castor and David Schoen will do next. So, in a moment of levity, let’s take a look at some of the other legal talent out there, to speak for Donald Trump. Right now the break out star in the litigation firmament is an elegant kitten, who was the face of a lawyer, using his secretary’s computer. She apparently had a kitten filter set up for the screen, and that’s when an otherwise completely mundane Zoom meeting between a judge and two lawyers became an international sensation.
“Mr. Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings,” Judge Roy Ferguson, presiding over the case, begins by telling Mr. Ponton in the video.
“Augggh,” an exasperated Mr. Ponton responds, as his kitten face looks forlornly at the corner of the screen, its eyes seeming to be full of terror, shame and sadness. “Can you hear me, Judge?” he asks, although the audio was never at issue.
H. Gibbs Bauer, another lawyer on the call, puts his glasses on and leans forward to better examine the wonder on his screen. He adjusts his tie, as if subconsciously aware of his supporting role, but keeps a straight face.
As does a stone-faced man in another box, identified as Jerry L. Phillips, seemingly unfazed by the cat.
Mr. Ponton continues.
“I don’t know how to remove it,” he said. “I’ve got my assistant here and she’s trying to.”
To get the hearing moving, he offers: “I’m prepared to go forward with it.”
Then, crucially, he clarifies: “I’m here live. I’m not a cat.”
This causes Mr. Phillips to look up and, finally, the exchange draws a smile and a laugh from him as Judge Ferguson responds: “I can see that.”
In the interview, Mr. Ponton, who was representing the State of Texas in the case, said that he was using his secretary’s computer and that she was “mortified” by the mistake.
Cats taking Zoom meetings. Not the least bit unusual in this day and age, where everybody has been forced to run and hide from the pandemic that the idiot who was in the White House when it began failed to contain. So the Zoom kitten is definitely in the running for Trump’s learned co-counsel. And while we’re hiring, what about Lionel Hutz? The only thing Bruce Castor didn’t do yesterday was “move for a bad court thingy” and Hutz knows how.
Well, go on back to the dog and pony show, where Bruce Castor will assure you that everything that happens, no matter how bizarre, is actually done on purpose.
I like how they recorded the notice stating that recording is prohibited.
Funny how those associated with the law rarely seem to follow it.
If that kitten is like our cats, it’s waaay overqualified to be Trump’s lawyer.
The Trompador already has a pair of cat lawyers.
(‘cat’ – slang in Ireland for something really bad and/or useless)