Trump rape / slander trial

[billvon 3,131]

So Trump just tried to get his rape/slander trial delayed - again.  He's been doing this for three years now.  And this time the judge not only refused, he delivered a pretty brutal smack-down to Trump in the process.  The whole decision is linked below.  Some highlights:

First, the premise that the “heart[s] of this litigation” and of New York indictment (as well as media coverage of the latter) are the same is just wrong. The “heart of this litigation” is whether Mr. Trump did or did not rape or sexually assault Ms. Carroll in a dressing room at a New York department store. The apparent “heart” ofthe New York State indictment is whether Mr. Trump falsified business records to cover up an alleged payment of “hush money” to “Woman 2” (presumably an adult movie performer, Stormy Daniels), to induce Woman 2 to keep quiet about an apparently consensual and adulterous sexual relationship she claims to have had with Mr. Trump and that Mr. Trump denies. To be sure, at a certain level of generality, both cases do indeed have something to do with “sex.” 

I am picturing the judge giving instructions in court to the jury about this.  "The jury is instructed to ignore the case where he banged a porn star, paid her to keep quiet and then lied about it."

 . . .  while both adultery and rape are offenses in New York, they are offenses that the Legislature regards as quite remarkably different in seriousness. 

The fact that you'd have to point this out to Team Trump is . . . sad, but expected in this case.

There was, of course, a great deal of media coverage – some of it invited and, indeed, provoked by Mr. Trump . . . it bears emphasis that at least some portion of the recent media coverage of Mr. Trump’s indictment was of his own doing.

In other words - this is your fault.  Live with it.

It is difficult also to ignore the possibility that this latest eve-of-trial request for a postponement is a delay tactic by Mr. Trump, a concern the Court has discussed in previous rulings . . . it now has been more than three years since Ms. Carroll filed her first lawsuit against Mr. Trump.

And that shit don't work no more.

It is quite important to remember that postponements in circumstances such as this are not necessarily unmixed blessings from the standpoint of a defendant who is hoping for the dissipation of what he regards, or says he regards, as negative publicity. Events happen during postponements. Sometimes they can make matters worse.

And with Trump, now facing new indictments from Georgia - that is a certainty.

 

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.106.0.pdf

[JerryBaumchen 1,471]

2 hours ago, billvon said:

So Trump just tried to get his rape/slander trial delayed - again.  He's been doing this for three years now.  And this time the judge not only refused, he delivered a pretty brutal smack-down to Trump in the process.  The whole decision is linked below.  Some highlights:

First, the premise that the “heart[s] of this litigation” and of New York indictment (as well as media coverage of the latter) are the same is just wrong. The “heart of this litigation” is whether Mr. Trump did or did not rape or sexually assault Ms. Carroll in a dressing room at a New York department store. The apparent “heart” ofthe New York State indictment is whether Mr. Trump falsified business records to cover up an alleged payment of “hush money” to “Woman 2” (presumably an adult movie performer, Stormy Daniels), to induce Woman 2 to keep quiet about an apparently consensual and adulterous sexual relationship she claims to have had with Mr. Trump and that Mr. Trump denies. To be sure, at a certain level of generality, both cases do indeed have something to do with “sex.” 

I am picturing the judge giving instructions in court to the jury about this.  "The jury is instructed to ignore the case where he banged a porn star, paid her to keep quiet and then lied about it."

 . . .  while both adultery and rape are offenses in New York, they are offenses that the Legislature regards as quite remarkably different in seriousness. 

The fact that you'd have to point this out to Team Trump is . . . sad, but expected in this case.

There was, of course, a great deal of media coverage – some of it invited and, indeed, provoked by Mr. Trump . . . it bears emphasis that at least some portion of the recent media coverage of Mr. Trump’s indictment was of his own doing.

In other words - this is your fault.  Live with it.

It is difficult also to ignore the possibility that this latest eve-of-trial request for a postponement is a delay tactic by Mr. Trump, a concern the Court has discussed in previous rulings . . . it now has been more than three years since Ms. Carroll filed her first lawsuit against Mr. Trump.

And that shit don't work no more.

It is quite important to remember that postponements in circumstances such as this are not necessarily unmixed blessings from the standpoint of a defendant who is hoping for the dissipation of what he regards, or says he regards, as negative publicity. Events happen during postponements. Sometimes they can make matters worse.

And with Trump, now facing new indictments from Georgia - that is a certainty.

 

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.106.0.pdf

Hi Bill,

I hope that the nails his balls to the wall.

Jerry Baumchen

[obelixtim 150]

On 4/20/2023 at 6:52 AM, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi Bill,

I hope that the nails his balls to the wall.

Jerry Baumchen

A couple of thumbtacks will probably suffice....