A federal judge threatened to kick Donald Trump out of court Wednesday after the former president made repeated comments within earshot of the jury hearing a civil defamation trial against him.
Trump muttered that the case is a “witch hunt,” among other similar comments, according to a lawyer for the writer E. Jean Carroll, who is suing Trump over derogatory comments he made about her while he was president.
The episode prompted a stern rebuke from U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who repeatedly tussled with Trump and his lawyers during a testy courtroom session Wednesday morning.
“Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited, and it can be forfeited if he is disruptive, which is what has been reported to me,” the judge said.
You want Trump to lose in court ASAP
I want Trump to lose against diabetes ASAP
We are not the same
Porque no los dos?
You want Trump to lose against diabetes ASAP
I want Trump to lose, on the toilet, against a perforated colon and prolapsed rectum ASAP
We are, well, kinda the same, so hi-five friendo
Those hamberders’ll catch up with him one of these days
That would be a real covfefe
I know it’s a longshot, but I’m really hoping for rabies.
I hope for nothing contagious: his sycophants would deliberately infect themselves to be more like him and end up causing a rabies pandemic
I can see how that would be bad, but somehow I just can’t stop feeling like that would benefit the world so much more than it would harm it.
Until you get good people dying of rabies
“good people” have nothing to worry about.
“Very fine people” might.
I’d be pretty satisfied with him being accidentally fired into space
“nobody has ever been shot out of a cannon, ever, into space… No, never! The demmacrats don’t wanchyou you to know about it because it makes them mad. I’m the bravest president, everyone is saying so”
It’s probably syphilis though.
He got caught googling symptoms and treatment for HPV.
Porque no los dos?
Porque no los dos?
Porque no los tres?
Don’t just kick him out; give him a time-out in a holding cell!
time-of-his-life cell, when?
He just seems like the kind of guy who’s never been punched in the face but really needs to be.
I’d prefer shot with a bologna loaf out of a canon but yea agreed
Please I hope he forfeits his right to be there lol
He wants to be kicked out. His antics are meant to force it.
This way he can go keep that martyred persecution complex working for him. Evangelicals love them a martyr,
That’s why it’s important for them to put him in a holding cell instead of letting him pontificate to the media on the courthouse steps.
Well, that and the whole the fucker incited an insurrection, and has promised to do it again,
No, that’s why it’s important to put him in a prison cell (or, you know, do what the Constitution actually prescribes as the penalty for treason), which is a bit of a separate issue. Really what needs to happen is first one, then the other.
jail, until the due process works out to a conviction, then prison while waiting for a more permanent solution?
I don’t normally go in for capital punishment- it’s barbaric. but, eh, there are exceptions.
Precisely.
On the other hand, discount Hitler would like nothing better than to publish a ghost-written manifesto from jail
Biden needs to punch this guy out
Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited, and it can be forfeited if he is disruptive…
Doesn’t that make it a privilege?
Exactly. A right shouldn’t be able to be revoked, otherwise by definition it’s not a right.
Does imprisonment invalidate the right to freedom?
I mean, Fuck Trump, but yeah…
You’re confusing the word revoked with the word forfeited. He’s forfeiting it by disrupting the court. It’s like the right to remain silent when you’re arrested. The officer arresting you can’t revoke it and make you answer or say anything, but you can choose to forfeit it and start talking.
Honestly I don’t think Trump should be kicked out of court. I say let him ruin his case and insult the judge until he’s found guilty for contempt of court as well.
He’s already well past what would be considered contempt of court for literally any other living human being. They’re giving him as much rope as is possible for two reasons, one being so that absolutely no one can argue a mistrial, and the second being that he continues to attempt to hang himself with every length of rope let out to him. May as well let him continue.
so that absolutely no one can argue a mistrial
This is the part that people keep missing. Judges go into “Super Professional Mode” when these things happen and run their court so by the book that it’s impossible for anyone to complain bias/unfair treatment.
I dont think the people who, and I say this with certainty, WILL compmain its unfair care at all. Even the ones with political power will spin it and have half the country believing that the most lieniant judges of all time are what ‘anti conservative bias’ looks like. It’s like moving the overton window on justice. Republicans after this will believe unless the judge lets a republican defendent sit in their lap and bang the gavel dismissing their own case it is bias. And that’s going to linger every time you try and punish law breakers who they like. Those people make it on juries and when they dont they use bomb threats.
This lawless former president is a disgusting degenerate just like his cult followers.
Don’t forget twice-impeached accused rapist
He was found liable of rape in the civil suit with E Jean Carrol. So confirmed rapist!
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so presidential when you cant control your own behavior.
conservatives really picking the best people.
They want the worst people. They love it. It makes them feel better about being such shitty people themselves.
For years they told us that Government would mess everything up.
And by god they’re going to prove it!
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So it’s cool if we fuck around in court? Contempt isn’t a thing anymore?
Federal judges (should) have a lot more decorum and patience. Actually all judges should have, but the US also popularized the mini dictators that dole out ridiculous punishments for “misbehaving”.
People in court are not there because they bought tickets to the venue for their own enjoyment.
While I agree Trump should also have some decorum, he is effectively rich trailer trash. The judge treats him as such and in my book that makes the judge an icon.
The judge is above his petty nonsense but does take the time to make trump feel he is not in charge every time he steps out. And I think this is far worse for Trump’s feelings than being stuck in a holding cell, that would just fuel his martyr syndrome.
Yeah, but when he is influencing the jury with his comments, that is different
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For rich people? No.
It’s just an up charge like getting soup with your meal for the rich.
Yeah, somewhat wealthy former president, he’s probably thinking, “Why would I need to control myself?”
He’s rich and white so business as usual.
He’s above the law. He knows it.
Aaaand that’s why two of his lawyers withdrew only shortly before the trial one even just the day before. They realised how unhinged he is and that there was no way to stop him, so they left the sinking ship.
That’s why he keeps doing it. They just threaten, no real consequences.
Yep. What motivation does he have for exercising control? Will they give him a fine that’s like pocket lint to him again?
It’s win/win for him. Either he shows how he can’t be controlled which riles up his supporters, or he can turn consequences around as evidence of the “corrupt Biden deep state” or something and get massive fundraising income and maybe convince some of his followers to launch terrorist attacks. This judge is having to weigh possible domestic terror retaliation against keeping his courtroom orderly.
It’s more that the judges will play by the rules so super hard that Trump can never appeal on the basis of unfair treatment. The consequence is really that the trials continue on as if he had never spoken, proving that his crying and hand waving have no real effect.
Isn’t a lack of self control central to this case?
While “former president” is a correct title, the media should really use “petulant man-child” instead. Far more accurate .
Petulant man-child also applies to Phony Stark.
Traitor Trump fits too.
Fuckface 45
This one. I choose this one.
Just giving “Shrimpdick McGee” it’s day in court.
“I do not recognize the authority of a court that hangs the gilded flag. A flag with gilded edges signifies an admiralty court, an admiralty court signifies that this is a court martial. I can not be court martialed twice. Further more…”
“Bailiff, gag that man.”
The fact that Dale Gribble, would be the most intelligent and sane person on the new right wing conspiracy populations is as hilarious as it is terrifying.
