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Don't kick him out, that's exactly what he wants.
F**KING ARREST HIM and charge him with contempt of court.
Judge: Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial. I understand you’re probably eager for me to do that.
Trump: I would love it
Judge: I know you would like it. You just can’t control yourself in this circumstance, apparently.
Trump (muttering): You can’t either.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a real conversation had by someone who once was and is again running for president. What fucking weird timeline are we living in?
Judge doesn't need to charge him, he can just be found in Contempt & held.
Presidents should not be above the law!
They aren't. 45 just thinks he is.
I mean…they kind of are. Hasn’t that been proven over and over and over again?
At what point does this become contempt?
From the video:
"He didn't speak but he expressed himself through facial gestures and hand gestures. At one point, the judge asked if any of the prospective jurors thought Trump had been treated unfairly by the court system, and Trump sort of slyly raised his hand, prompting some laughter from the room."
- Jake Offenhartz, Associated Press
i love how persnickety the courts get about decorum, it's so pretentious. is being somber and serious the reason you get to put people away for life?
"I'm granting your request to go to your mother in laws funeral. Don't come back."
He can go to her funeral, that's the ridiculous part. His attorney represents him in court, and anything he misses Thursday can be recounted to him on Friday.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial Wednesday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that he shattered her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse.
Earlier, without the jury in the courtroom, Trump could be seen slamming his hand on the defense table and uttering the word, “man,” when the judge again refused his lawyer’s request that the trial be suspended on Thursday so he could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral in Florida.
Carroll, 80, was the first witness in a Manhattan federal court trial to determine damages, if any, that Trump owes her for remarks he made while he was president in June 2019 as he vehemently denied ever attacking her or knowing her.
Carroll’s appearance, which continues Wednesday afternoon, was somewhat of a tight rope walk because of limitations the judge has posed on the trial in light of the previous verdict and prior rulings he’s made restricting the infusion of political talk into the proceedings.
She said that Trump’s vitriol toward her has not ceased, pointing to multiple social media posts he made about her in recent days, and that his rhetoric continues to inspire venom against her from strangers because she claimed he sexually abused her decades ago.
Carroll has maintained she lost millions of readers and her longtime post at Elle magazine, where her “Ask E. Jean” advice column ran for over a quarter-century, because of her allegations and Trump’s reaction to them.
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Bailiff, club that man!
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