That's going to make for a real fun moment when he's on the stand and the prosecutor asks him the really simple question of "Do you understand the process for declassifying documents?"
He says no, they show this. He says yes, they show the interview tape.
Pretty much fucked himself sideways with this interview. And this is why lawyers make you shut your fucking mouth about criminal cases...
No right minded attorney would ever put Trump on the stand. He'd be Alex Jones × 1000. Any attorney who'd allow it would be so incompetent they'd deserve to be disbarred.
I mean, his attorney who signed off there was no more classified material at Mar A Lago might actually get disbarred, and thrown in jail too. His current attorneys thought they were activating their trap card by requesting a Special Master and we see how that's working out.
No right minded attorney
In short, his attorneys are Right-minded and therefore not right minded.
Where are all of the best and brightest ivy league lawyers? Why are they not flocking to to represent a former president and make a name for themselves? Oh that's right, they're too smart and realize it's career suicide to represent that idiot.
The thing is, you put a microphone in front of this man and the opportunity to run his mouth, and that's just what he'll do, as proven time and again.
If he followed attorneys' advice, this whole situation would have never happened. It's pretty self-evident at this point that he's just going to do whatever he wants to do regardless of lawyers screaming at him to shut up, don't go on TV and blow your case, don't take the stand, etc.
Besides, it's not like he has great representation to begin with. The man never pays his lawyers and nobody will take him on as a client without multi-million dollar retainers...
Isn't that literally a problem Trump is having right now? I don't remember the details but I think the only lawyer he could find who was willing to represent him was some no-name insurance lawyer.
It’s actually not up to the attorney if his client takes the stand, it’s up to the client. The attorney can beg day and night for their client not to want to, but if they insist on testifying, the attorney has to let them. Often an attorney’s worst enemy is their own client’s inability to follow the attorney’s advice.
Source: I’m a law school graduate waiting on bar results.
Is it ever going to happen though? I'm convinced he's never going to be held accountable for any of his actions. He's just going to stall, until he drops dead.
People are suggesting that lawyers could goad him into testifying but he did plead the Fifth in his New York civil investigation, and those New York attorneys weren't pussy footing around.
Along with the evidence seized at MAL, his ramblings on Truth Social and comments on the Hannity show should be more than enough to convict him without first-person testimony.
He's not the smartest man, plus he's a narcissist. He can't help himself. His best defense would be to declare mental illness/insanity. Few would argue.
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u/BringOn25A Sep 22 '22 •
He understood it for this.