Donald Trump’s defense presentation in his New York civil fraud trial is a disaster already
New York Attorney General Letitia James and her team have finished putting on their case for the prosecution in the New York civil fraud trial against Donald Trump. Now it’s time for Trump and his attorneys to put on a defense presentation. Let’s just say that it’s already going poorly for them.
For instance, after James forced Donald Trump Jr to testify as hostile witness for the prosecution, Trump’s lawyers turned around and call Donald Trump Jr as a witness for the defense. But his testimony didn’t help them in any way, and the whole thing served no purpose. It gets worse.
During their attempt at portraying the Trump Organization as an upstanding business, Trump’s attorneys referred to one of Trump’s properties as a 72 story building when it’s actually a 63 story building. Wait a minute, isn’t this pretty much exactly the kind of behavior that Trump is on trial for? Old habits die hard, one supposes.
The difference is that while Donald Trump may have gotten away with lying to bankers and lenders about the size and value of his properties over the years, he’s not going to get any with it in the courtroom. In a civil case like this, failure to put on a meaningful defense is basically the same thing as forfeiting. Trump has already lost this case by summary judgment. His idiotic “defense” presentation could merely result in larger damages.
