Donald Trump’s defense attorneys just hit the panic button over Karen McDougal
Donald Trump’s criminal trial resumed this morning with his defense attorneys continuing to cross examine Stormy Daniels. They went hard at her, but she stood her ground and remained highly credible. Daniels ended up doing a lot of damage to Trump, both in terms of the trial and in terms of political reputation. So it perhaps wasn’t suspiring that as soon as she was off the stand, Trumps defense attorneys hit the panic button about another witness in this trial.
Trump’s attorneys have now moved to exclude Karen McDougal from testifying at all. This is a silly move. It has zero chance of working. It won’t help Trump on appeal. And the move merely tells the general public that Trump is very much afraid of what McDougal is going to say about him, which will only serve to put more public attention on her upcoming testimony.
Trump’s attorneys are now also demanding that Trump be exempted from his gag order with regard to Stormy Daniels, so he can publicly fire back at her over her testimony. This also has no chance of being granted.
It’s now clear that Trump’s attorneys are simply doing whatever Trump is demanding they do. He’s panicked about the idea of Karen McDougal testifying against him, and he’s desperate to attack Stormy Daniels, so that’s what he has his attorneys wasting their time and effort on. If Trump is steering his legal team in this direction, it’ll only increase the odds that he’s convicted.
