Helen Kennedy: Trump's tweets may not have put him behind bars for contempt, but they just made his lawyers' lives harder. Reporters in the courtroom relay that prosecutors refused to extend the normal courtesy of telling the defense which witnesses are coming up because Trump tweets about it. Fine says judge.

Trump's tweets may not have put him behind bars for contempt, but they just made his lawyers' lives harder. Reporters in the courtroom relay that prosecutors refused to extend the normal courtesy of telling the defense which witnesses are coming up because Trump tweets about it. Fine says judge.

They have to be prepped for every witness every day. Lol.

This would be really bad for them if they had a client who has been known to skimp on his legal bills.

Skip! The word is skip!

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No no I know what the word means. I was making a joke ha ha

Don’t skimp on the m

No!!! The correct term is sckirimp!!!

Two things can be true

To be fair he both skimps and skips.

He does

I got it!

Wow, this is gonna make their jobs more impossible than they already are.

My heart. It breaks for them.

Mine too. I made a James Beard quiche for dinner.

I just made French chicken thighs braised in vinegar and it's so damn good I'm thinking of throwing a dinner party just so I can serve it.

Oh, those sound lovely! My sister, whom I live with and who does virtually all the cooking, has become both vegetarian and gluten free, and dinners are often quite grim and boring as a result. I don't mind one or the other, but combined it seems to be a fairly lethal to taste and diversity.

Ooohhh, balsamic?

“This mission… just got a whole lot more impossible.”

Maybe they’ll play the title track now for every witness as they come is?

Only if when Trump walks in they play Elton John’s The Bitch Is Back.

Mine too! My heart breaks like Heidi Gardner broke when she saw the Beavis & Butthead prosthetics.

God that was HILARIOUS.

I would LOVE it if Vulture or AV Club wrote a tick tock about that sketch. I’d read the shit out of that shit.

Oh how I hope, just to mess with them, they bring in one that no one expected to be among the first three. Even if it's just a bluff, to make Trump's lawyers sweat. "Wait, who is this guy? Oh f*&# I have no idea what he's going to say!"

And, yes, I know they can't push it that far. But it would be good for a laugh.

Two airmen who sit in the back for maximum memeness

Janitor comes in half way through the trial. Says nothing, walks into the witness box, polishes some of the woodwork. Leaves.

quadruple the work, half the pay (probably, given tfg’s penchant for stiffing contractors)

Half? That seems generous.

I would bet money they are not chastising Trump for effing things up

Outstanding. Thank you for pointing this out and so improving my mood.

I’m wondering if Trump has any idea how bad this is for him

kneecapping your own attorneys to own the libs lol

He's not owning the libs, though, he literally cannot control himself

Literally the only reason he may finally face any justice at all in his entire life is that he's becoming too senile and drug-dependent to either talk his way out of it or maintain his silence. This man may just actually FORCE the US legal system to punish a wealthy white man, through incompetence

I, sadly, still have a certain confidence in the US legal system. But hope to be wrong.

The fact that the judge didn't laugh out loud at them for "What if we commit president Trump won't tweet about them?" is an epic level of judicial restraint

"Oh, so your client is willing to be incarcerated without Internet access for the duration of the trial?"

Jurisprudent

Refusing even under attorney eyes only says clearly that he doesn’t trust the defense attorneys. Very bad for them

Or, ya know, the judge could put him in jail for contempt.

(Trump, one hour later) “Ha ha they said I couldn’t tweet them, but nothing about ‘truthing’ them”

First thing I thought: they’ll commit he won’t Tweet and he’ll just go post on Truth Social.

I'm convinced his lawyers must just be addicted to adrenaline spikes, like trauma surgeons, or something. They can't control their client at all & he won't pay them.

“But Judge! Jared is bringing in Michael Cohen’s long estranged older brother from Tel Aviv to see his testimony”.

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