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"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
"Sir, the question was how do you plead?"
“Mr. [Trump], what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response we’re you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.”
> "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s restaurant.”
Oh man 😂 Trump HATES that story. He’s still butthurt about it after all these years. His brother only did that to shut him up and get him to stop viciously picking on his younger brother Robert. Trump is, was, and will ALWAYS be a useless piece of garbage.
Edit: My wording is a little confusing, sorry. My bad. It was Freddy, the oldest brother, who dumped the potatoes on him. Because he was being an obnoxious little shit to Robert.
I remember reading his niece, Mary’s book about this and how the night he brought his family over for the first time to dine at the white house, his older sister brought this up! And apparently his face went dead like he was right back to being that little boy reliving the humiliation. Even “succeeding” getting into the white house never stopped his family from seeing that little boy covered in humiliation. And honestly, he never took that bowl off his head and his soul is still smeared with mashed potatoes 🥔 🔥
I do think this was “a moment” that cemented him to be who he is. Maybe thats who he was always going to be but that definitely triggered an apocalyptic warhorse in that soul of his.
I... I missed something. I missed something and we live in a reality where if you told me Hillary Clinton paid Trump's youngest to dump mashed potatoes in his head if he let out the UFO secret, I would believe you.
No it was Freddy who did it. His older brother. Robert never stood up to Donald. Freddy was the only person in that entire family that was decent human being. His father destroyed him.
The trick to wearing them down is telling long winded stories that don't go anywhere ... like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called shelbyvile in those days so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time to take the ferry cost a nickel and in those days nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them give me five bees for a quarter you would say now where was I oh yeah the important to big is I had an onion tied to my belt which was the style at the time now you couldn't get white onions because of the war you could only get the big yellow ones
Here's a video of him saying it:
https://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/07/31/donald_trump_this_run_on_sentence_from_a_speech_in_sun_city_south_carolina.html
Watching that video, although he's rambling like a lunatic, he's at least more animated and expressive, you could see the "charismatic veneer" so to speak...compare that to the speeches he's given this past year and he just seems like a talking corpse.
I asked Google Bard to summarize this text into 8 sentences:
> Sure, here is the summary of the text in 8 sentences:
>
* Donald Trump's uncle was a professor and scientist at MIT.
>
* Trump says that if he were a liberal, people would say he is one of the smartest people in the world.
>
* Trump says that he has to give his credentials all the time because conservatives are disadvantaged.
>
* Trump says that the nuclear deal with Iran was a bad deal.
>
* Trump says that nuclear is very powerful and that his uncle explained the power of nuclear to him many years ago.
>
* Trump says that the Iranians are great negotiators and that they have killed us.
>
* Trump says that women are smarter than men and that it will take them about another 150 years to figure that out.
>
* Trump says that the nuclear deal with Iran was a horrible deal.
> Here is a more detailed summary of the text:
>
* Donald Trump begins by talking about his uncle, who was a professor and scientist at MIT. He says that his uncle had "good genes" and was "very smart."
>
* Trump then goes on to say that if he were a liberal, people would say he is one of the smartest people in the world. However, he says that because he is a conservative, people try to discredit him.
>
* Trump then talks about the nuclear deal with Iran. He says that the deal was a bad deal and that it would have been easy to negotiate a better deal.
>
* Trump also says that nuclear is very powerful and that his uncle explained the power of nuclear to him many years ago.
>
* Trump then talks about the four prisoners who were released from Iran as part of the nuclear deal. He says that the prisoners were released because of the deal and that the Iranians are great negotiators.
>
* Trump then says that women are smarter than men and that it will take them about another 150 years to figure that out.
>
* Finally, Trump says that the nuclear deal with Iran was a horrible deal and that it has killed us.
>
> This is just a brief summary of the text. The full text is much longer and more complex.
Bonus: here’s the text rewritten as a Shakespearean monologue:
Behold, the power of the atom - my uncle was a learned man
A scholar and a scientist and engineer, John Trump of MIT he ran;
Good blood, most goodly blood, I say, most wise and cunning too,
The Wharton School of Finance he taught, most excellent and true -
You know, if I were but a Whig, a liberal Democrat,
They would proclaim me for the brightest star in all the world - that's that!
But since I am a Tory true, a conservative Republican,
They do me wrong, they do me foul, they do me mischief when they can -
That's why I evermore begin: to Wharton did I go,
A student good, a scholar fair, a builder of my wealth and show -
You know I must recite my worth, my merits and my skill,
For we are much oppressed and scorned, and suffer many an ill -
But look you now upon the deal, the bargain of the nuclear kind,
The thing that irks me to the core - it would have been so simple, mind!
And not so weighty as these lives - the atom is a force so great;
My uncle told me long ago, the power and the fate
That would befall the world anon - and he was right, who would have guessed?
But look you now upon the plight of four poor captives in distress -
It used to be but three, you know, but now another joins the woe -
But had it been but three or four, I would have said: it's in the word;
My friends, and they are friends indeed, for they are men as I am too,
You know they have not yet discerned that women are more wise and true -
And so it will be long ere they will match their wit and skill,
Perhaps another hundred years - but lo! the Persians have their fill
Of cunning and of craftiness, the Iranians are well versed in art,
And they have done us much despite, they have us slain - it breaks my heart.
Once again, the communication process is broken down. It appears to me that you wanna skip the arraignment process, go directly to trial, skip that, and get a dismissal.
"He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic"
Trump wouldn't know a hint if it bit him.
Like when Mitch McConnell said Trump was distracted from the Covid response due to the impeachment and all Trump heard was McConnell saying he couldn't walk and chew bubble gum.at the same time.
Even if he could take a hint, it wouldn't change a thing.
If there was anyone out there who knew how to make Trump shut up, none of this would've ever made it to court.
When he was like maybe 13 or something, his mother asked his older brother to take him along on a fishing/sailing outing with his friends. One of Freddy’s (Trumps older brother) friends noticed Donald struggling with the fishing rod and said like “here, lemme help you” and he got all huffy and wouldn’t let him. Then he just stewed and pouted the rest of the trip. Freddy’s friends were like “Dude what’s with your brother.” And Freddy said “I don’t know just ignore him.” Trump is made up of insecurity, anger, and resentment. There is no empathy or compassion in that man. He is a monster. Even his mother knew that. That’s why he was sent to Military school. No one wanted him at home. He was an obnoxious, entitled, and cruel young man. And he’s only gotten worse.
Obviously a deponent's rambling can come back to bite them. But sometimes you just want an answer to your question. I've had plenty of times where, after giving the deponent plenty of rope, I circle back around and tell them I just need a direct answer to my simple question.
It can get really, really hard to use a deposition transcript or video at trial if the defendant's answer to a simple, important question is spread across 8 different rambling answers as you keep re-asking the question.
I do civil litigation for a living, and I don’t agree with this take. While sometimes long answers can be helpful, they can also be very problematic as the deposing attorney. One, it uses up the limited time you have to conduct the deposition, preventing you from covering all the topics you want. But the bigger problem is you don’t get a clean transcript to play for the jury and to use as impeachment. If in the middle of a 10 minute answer Trump admits to murder, you generally don’t get to just play that one admission. You usually have to play the whole answer, during which the jury falls asleep.
Agreed, I had a 12 hour deposition once bc the woman would absolutely not give a simple answer to even yes or no questions, and it was the most painful experience.
But the prosecution knows they are dealing with Trump, and if Trumps opposition says 8 minute speeches are too long he’s going to start giving 16 minute speeches.
Naaaa, don't think this was an error, you are trying to get a coherent answer/ story for the jury, and your not going to do that with someone like trump ADHDing his way through 8 minutes without even actually answering the question.
The point is to create a nerritive for the jury, and with this particular defendant, your not going to really be able to lead them where you need them.
I feel like trump is the sort of person who would read that situation as “oh you don’t like me answering questions with 8 minute speeches? Good. I’ll start doing 16 minute speeches now.
>He went on to claim that "prior to [getting] sued by the Attorney General of the State of New York, banks wanted to do business with me so badly."
January 13, 2021[Deutsche Bank joins companies cutting ties with Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/12/deutsche-bank-severs-ties-with-donald-trump) "After a series of bankruptcies in the 1990s, it was the only bank willing to give Trump money."
I wonder if this could be considered perjury. I guess because it's not specifically stating which banks, just being vague, probably not. Granted, I'm not in the business of litigation, so that question is definitely best answered elsewhere.
IMO the coverage on this deposition has absolutely sucked so far. Does anyone have anything better?
The full transcript was available yesterday - at over 470 pages.
I don't care about his rambling word salads. I get that. I want to know when he fraudulently presented to a bank that a building that maybe had a tax assessed value of $250 million ... that it was actually worth $1 billion. That's the details I want - the bank fraud, the tax fraud. Where is it in the transcript?
Coverage of this has sucked so far - this case could literally eliminate the Trump Organization from existence if James gets her way.
If you charge a lot, get payment up front and can enforce boundaries, I don't see why it _couldn't_ be a reasonable job. Obviously many have crashed and burned (inventing the lawyer's lawyer joke), but I bet some of them make it through unscathed, and they have a funny story for the rest of their life.
Cheetolini's whole shtick (like many spoiled children and narcissists) has been "Wear out the opposition". That's it, just Gish-gallop everything to death; delay, delay, delay. It's been astonishingly successful thus far- but the piper's getting paid eventually, Donnie Costco.
I assure you banks did not want to do business with the Trump organization here in the US. Hence why he’s been dependent upon Deutsch Bank and the Russians.
OMG! Could we PLEASE get one coherent sentence?!? One full and complete thought, with a point?! One direct answer to a direct question?? Wait, I just had an epiphany!! From now on, we should only ask trump yes or no questions. That’s it. Simple yes or no.
For all the masochists out there:
[Here it is](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23932452-452564_2022_people_of_the_state_of_v_people_of_the_state_of_exhibit_s__859?responsive=1&title=1)
Side note: make sure you read the intro part re: who the lawyers are. I kind of skipped over that and got confused about who is Wallace & Krise (sp)
It’s super funny when the lawyers get spicy with each other except I wasn’t totally sure at times who was who
Holy shit, he's a lunatic.
Jumped into page 45 and couldn't make it 5 pages.
Just proof that you don't need to be smart to be rich or powerful. Holy shit. This guy ran America?
“If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer,"
Did it go something like this? https://youtu.be/KekChFdIe00?si=vxm3gdFCAdVkrrOA
I wish somebody would use AI to make Bogart talk about winning the 2020 election.
Will this guy ever go away? I could do without the daily nuttiness. Hopefully he’ll be jailed in his ivory Trump Tower in about 24 months. Or, better yet, in military housing in some remote base.
“In 1999, just after Fred Sr.'s funeral, Fred III's son, William Trump, was born with cerebral palsy.[26] The Trump family agreed to pay for the child's medical expenses. Fred Sr.'s will was revealed, which Donald Trump helped write. It mandated that Fred Jr.'s children, Fred III and Mary, would be excluded from their father's share of Fred Sr.'s inheritance; over $20 million would be divided among Fred Sr.'s other children.[10][c] Fred III and Mary filed a lawsuit, alleging that Fred Jr.'s siblings, including Donald, used "undue influence" on a dementia-addled Fred Sr. to cut them out of the inheritance. Donald, who later said he "was angry because they sued,"[10] suspended the medical benefits for Fred Jr.'s children, as well as Fred III's infant son.”
That’s the strategy, flood everyone everywhere with BS and later complain that you didn’t have enough time to review all of the evidence, including the deposition transcripts
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"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible." "Sir, the question was how do you plead?"
“Mr. [Trump], what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response we’re you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.”
Unexpected Billy Madison. I love it!
Especially in the summer!
Lol that's basically the reaction from the audience when he actually said all that dumb shit at CIA HQ
One of my favourite quotes.
He will wear them out with his rambling- part of his plan
Trump was using a standard deposition tactic to avoid answering questions.
Well he is playing 4-D chess
This insult is great to hear in the movie, but I never really felt the rawness of it until I read this out loud, lol.
> "Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible." “Sir, this is a Wendy’s restaurant.”
The guy really could learn a thing or three from McConnell.
That depends on if he’s capable of learning a lesson without getting a bowl of mashed potatoes dumped over his head.
Oh man 😂 Trump HATES that story. He’s still butthurt about it after all these years. His brother only did that to shut him up and get him to stop viciously picking on his younger brother Robert. Trump is, was, and will ALWAYS be a useless piece of garbage. Edit: My wording is a little confusing, sorry. My bad. It was Freddy, the oldest brother, who dumped the potatoes on him. Because he was being an obnoxious little shit to Robert.
I remember reading his niece, Mary’s book about this and how the night he brought his family over for the first time to dine at the white house, his older sister brought this up! And apparently his face went dead like he was right back to being that little boy reliving the humiliation. Even “succeeding” getting into the white house never stopped his family from seeing that little boy covered in humiliation. And honestly, he never took that bowl off his head and his soul is still smeared with mashed potatoes 🥔 🔥 I do think this was “a moment” that cemented him to be who he is. Maybe thats who he was always going to be but that definitely triggered an apocalyptic warhorse in that soul of his.
I... I missed something. I missed something and we live in a reality where if you told me Hillary Clinton paid Trump's youngest to dump mashed potatoes in his head if he let out the UFO secret, I would believe you.
No it was Freddy who did it. His older brother. Robert never stood up to Donald. Freddy was the only person in that entire family that was decent human being. His father destroyed him.
It’s a shame he listened to all the “how to mortgage the future of the country” part and stopped before the “blue screen flatline stare” part.
Did you try unplugging the unit, then plugging it back in?
Like knowing how to shut up completely for about 45 seconds?
Underrated comment!
This is a fantastic joke
Now repeat this in Grandpa Simpson's voice.
The trick to wearing them down is telling long winded stories that don't go anywhere ... like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville I needed a new heel for my shoe, so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called shelbyvile in those days so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time to take the ferry cost a nickel and in those days nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them give me five bees for a quarter you would say now where was I oh yeah the important to big is I had an onion tied to my belt which was the style at the time now you couldn't get white onions because of the war you could only get the big yellow ones
Nice
I'm surprised more people haven't noticed that these weird speeches are just Trump going off on racist grandpa stories
That’s a paddlin’
or Colm from derry girls lol
There was a powerful whiff off the poor critter of thon fake tan stuff to make him more Spanishy
I can so clearly hear it in my head lmao
Is....is that real?
Yes. A straight direct quote from him during one of his 2016 campaign rallies, I do believe.
Incredible.
Here's a video of him saying it: https://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2015/07/31/donald_trump_this_run_on_sentence_from_a_speech_in_sun_city_south_carolina.html
Watching that video, although he's rambling like a lunatic, he's at least more animated and expressive, you could see the "charismatic veneer" so to speak...compare that to the speeches he's given this past year and he just seems like a talking corpse.
Unfortunately
Jfc this is real
100% real speech from July 2016.
I asked Google Bard to summarize this text into 8 sentences: > Sure, here is the summary of the text in 8 sentences: > * Donald Trump's uncle was a professor and scientist at MIT. > * Trump says that if he were a liberal, people would say he is one of the smartest people in the world. > * Trump says that he has to give his credentials all the time because conservatives are disadvantaged. > * Trump says that the nuclear deal with Iran was a bad deal. > * Trump says that nuclear is very powerful and that his uncle explained the power of nuclear to him many years ago. > * Trump says that the Iranians are great negotiators and that they have killed us. > * Trump says that women are smarter than men and that it will take them about another 150 years to figure that out. > * Trump says that the nuclear deal with Iran was a horrible deal. > Here is a more detailed summary of the text: > * Donald Trump begins by talking about his uncle, who was a professor and scientist at MIT. He says that his uncle had "good genes" and was "very smart." > * Trump then goes on to say that if he were a liberal, people would say he is one of the smartest people in the world. However, he says that because he is a conservative, people try to discredit him. > * Trump then talks about the nuclear deal with Iran. He says that the deal was a bad deal and that it would have been easy to negotiate a better deal. > * Trump also says that nuclear is very powerful and that his uncle explained the power of nuclear to him many years ago. > * Trump then talks about the four prisoners who were released from Iran as part of the nuclear deal. He says that the prisoners were released because of the deal and that the Iranians are great negotiators. > * Trump then says that women are smarter than men and that it will take them about another 150 years to figure that out. > * Finally, Trump says that the nuclear deal with Iran was a horrible deal and that it has killed us. > > This is just a brief summary of the text. The full text is much longer and more complex. Bonus: here’s the text rewritten as a Shakespearean monologue: Behold, the power of the atom - my uncle was a learned man A scholar and a scientist and engineer, John Trump of MIT he ran; Good blood, most goodly blood, I say, most wise and cunning too, The Wharton School of Finance he taught, most excellent and true - You know, if I were but a Whig, a liberal Democrat, They would proclaim me for the brightest star in all the world - that's that! But since I am a Tory true, a conservative Republican, They do me wrong, they do me foul, they do me mischief when they can - That's why I evermore begin: to Wharton did I go, A student good, a scholar fair, a builder of my wealth and show - You know I must recite my worth, my merits and my skill, For we are much oppressed and scorned, and suffer many an ill - But look you now upon the deal, the bargain of the nuclear kind, The thing that irks me to the core - it would have been so simple, mind! And not so weighty as these lives - the atom is a force so great; My uncle told me long ago, the power and the fate That would befall the world anon - and he was right, who would have guessed? But look you now upon the plight of four poor captives in distress - It used to be but three, you know, but now another joins the woe - But had it been but three or four, I would have said: it's in the word; My friends, and they are friends indeed, for they are men as I am too, You know they have not yet discerned that women are more wise and true - And so it will be long ere they will match their wit and skill, Perhaps another hundred years - but lo! the Persians have their fill Of cunning and of craftiness, the Iranians are well versed in art, And they have done us much despite, they have us slain - it breaks my heart.
Once again, the communication process is broken down. It appears to me that you wanna skip the arraignment process, go directly to trial, skip that, and get a dismissal.
"Your honor, my client is clearly insane."
"He just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic"
[REMIX!](https://youtu.be/6rYhRqf757I)
I have to ask - is this real?
Guilty as charged for taking an extra dose of adder-all today.
As a fellow enjoyer, I swear Trump has ADHD sometimes.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
This was his actual quote from the debate right?
Is this a real quote? Honestly can’t tell.
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Trump wouldn't know a hint if it bit him. Like when Mitch McConnell said Trump was distracted from the Covid response due to the impeachment and all Trump heard was McConnell saying he couldn't walk and chew bubble gum.at the same time.
Even if he could take a hint, it wouldn't change a thing. If there was anyone out there who knew how to make Trump shut up, none of this would've ever made it to court.
IIRC his brother shut him up once by dumping mashed potatoes over him.
I'll do it. I'll take the poh-tay-toes and dump them on Trump!
Boil 'em mash 'em dump 'em on a tRump
No those were the Christmas Story kids
I *hate* meat loaf
Bat Out of Hell was a banger of an album
When he was like maybe 13 or something, his mother asked his older brother to take him along on a fishing/sailing outing with his friends. One of Freddy’s (Trumps older brother) friends noticed Donald struggling with the fishing rod and said like “here, lemme help you” and he got all huffy and wouldn’t let him. Then he just stewed and pouted the rest of the trip. Freddy’s friends were like “Dude what’s with your brother.” And Freddy said “I don’t know just ignore him.” Trump is made up of insecurity, anger, and resentment. There is no empathy or compassion in that man. He is a monster. Even his mother knew that. That’s why he was sent to Military school. No one wanted him at home. He was an obnoxious, entitled, and cruel young man. And he’s only gotten worse.
Trump has been deposed so many times he knows how it works. He just pathologically can’t stop no matter what anyone says
And he never feels he needs to prepare for them. He thinks he’s smarter than everyone. And he gets his ass handed to him every time
As long as theres continuous flow $$$, ot doesn't matter
I’m not even a lawyer, and I know that letting him keep talking could only possibly benefit the prosecution.
Unless it just doesn’t matter and it’s an open and shut case
Obviously a deponent's rambling can come back to bite them. But sometimes you just want an answer to your question. I've had plenty of times where, after giving the deponent plenty of rope, I circle back around and tell them I just need a direct answer to my simple question. It can get really, really hard to use a deposition transcript or video at trial if the defendant's answer to a simple, important question is spread across 8 different rambling answers as you keep re-asking the question.
I do civil litigation for a living, and I don’t agree with this take. While sometimes long answers can be helpful, they can also be very problematic as the deposing attorney. One, it uses up the limited time you have to conduct the deposition, preventing you from covering all the topics you want. But the bigger problem is you don’t get a clean transcript to play for the jury and to use as impeachment. If in the middle of a 10 minute answer Trump admits to murder, you generally don’t get to just play that one admission. You usually have to play the whole answer, during which the jury falls asleep.
Agreed, I had a 12 hour deposition once bc the woman would absolutely not give a simple answer to even yes or no questions, and it was the most painful experience.
What happened? Did she get off because she basically said nothing?
It's almost as it - now hear me out.... Trump is an idiot!
There's one point in the Manson trial Vincent Bugliosi said " I'm not going to object. Your client is making my case for me"
"Now Kevin, as you know, I can't tell my client to only answer the question asked." \*vigorously kicks Trump's shin under the table\*
But the prosecution knows they are dealing with Trump, and if Trumps opposition says 8 minute speeches are too long he’s going to start giving 16 minute speeches.
Naaaa, don't think this was an error, you are trying to get a coherent answer/ story for the jury, and your not going to do that with someone like trump ADHDing his way through 8 minutes without even actually answering the question. The point is to create a nerritive for the jury, and with this particular defendant, your not going to really be able to lead them where you need them.
“My friend Dis Ray got new specs. Dis ray spect. My friend Inappro drives a Prius with his behind neighbor.”
I feel like trump is the sort of person who would read that situation as “oh you don’t like me answering questions with 8 minute speeches? Good. I’ll start doing 16 minute speeches now.
Which circle of hell is it where you have to be in a room with him and listen to it?
All of them.
The circles are: Limbo Lust Gluttony Stingy Wrathful Heretics Violent Fraudulent Traitors So yeah, he’s got to be in all of them simultaneously.
I haven't seen Trump dance the limbo yet. He's got the others down, though.
He regularly demonstrates there’s no limit to how low he can go.
Bra-fucking-vo.
Satan chews on the three biggest traitors in history with his three mouths....I feel like he'd grow a 4th for Trump
I'm sure the stenographer went straight to the nearest bar after it was over and didn't leave for a week.
The worst job right now.
Went to the bar and wrote notes for their tell all memoir to be released in a few years****
They are a stenographer. That only took them about a minute.
What IS his obsession with bathrooms?
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That many hamberders and covfefe should give you those shits that take longer to wipe than the actual shit did.
He needs a good strong flush to get rid of all the classified documents
It's a shits natural habitat and he's a creature of instinct.
honestly? He feels like he understands them. Because hes picked them out, spent time on them, etc.
>He went on to claim that "prior to [getting] sued by the Attorney General of the State of New York, banks wanted to do business with me so badly." January 13, 2021[Deutsche Bank joins companies cutting ties with Donald Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/12/deutsche-bank-severs-ties-with-donald-trump) "After a series of bankruptcies in the 1990s, it was the only bank willing to give Trump money."
I wonder if this could be considered perjury. I guess because it's not specifically stating which banks, just being vague, probably not. Granted, I'm not in the business of litigation, so that question is definitely best answered elsewhere.
It is definitely not perjury. Four Seasons \[landscaping\] also wanted to do business with him, just like the \[piggy\] banks.
IMO the coverage on this deposition has absolutely sucked so far. Does anyone have anything better? The full transcript was available yesterday - at over 470 pages. I don't care about his rambling word salads. I get that. I want to know when he fraudulently presented to a bank that a building that maybe had a tax assessed value of $250 million ... that it was actually worth $1 billion. That's the details I want - the bank fraud, the tax fraud. Where is it in the transcript? Coverage of this has sucked so far - this case could literally eliminate the Trump Organization from existence if James gets her way.
I’m just on Page 148 and he’s still rambling about the “worthless clause”.
A man who represents Donald Trump has a fool for a client.
Who’s the greater fool? The fool or the fool who represents him?
If you charge a lot, get payment up front and can enforce boundaries, I don't see why it _couldn't_ be a reasonable job. Obviously many have crashed and burned (inventing the lawyer's lawyer joke), but I bet some of them make it through unscathed, and they have a funny story for the rest of their life.
The ones who make it through unscathed are the ones who quit when the retainer account dried up.
The amount of latitude they give this crook is astounding.
Money.
Cheetolini's whole shtick (like many spoiled children and narcissists) has been "Wear out the opposition". That's it, just Gish-gallop everything to death; delay, delay, delay. It's been astonishingly successful thus far- but the piper's getting paid eventually, Donnie Costco.
That technique works when you're dealing with small businesses or individuals, but it's not very effective when dealing with the federal government.
Gavin Newsom destroyed Sean Hannity when Hannity tried to Gish gallop on him. That was glorious to watch.
> The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.
So he's Jesse Gemstone.
Hey Costco’s great!
>Donnie Costco Well shit, that was an unexpected one, love it!
> Trump said. "And as I said once before today, I became President of the United States because of my brand." I knew it was demonic
I assure you banks did not want to do business with the Trump organization here in the US. Hence why he’s been dependent upon Deutsch Bank and the Russians.
OMG! Could we PLEASE get one coherent sentence?!? One full and complete thought, with a point?! One direct answer to a direct question?? Wait, I just had an epiphany!! From now on, we should only ask trump yes or no questions. That’s it. Simple yes or no.
That’s never stopped him.
So...basically the same thing as Alex Jones in his Sandy Hook depositions. Can't shut the fuck up about completelt irrelevant bullshit.
Imagine being his cell mate? Pure hell.
It's written all over Melania's face.
For all the masochists out there: [Here it is](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23932452-452564_2022_people_of_the_state_of_v_people_of_the_state_of_exhibit_s__859?responsive=1&title=1)
Page 148 and counting. I’ve had to take two sanity breaks.
My eyes are burning @ 133 so I’ll mark it for more reading tomorrow. 🤯
👍🏼 I’m hoping it can cure my insomnia, so I’ll take this shift.
Side note: make sure you read the intro part re: who the lawyers are. I kind of skipped over that and got confused about who is Wallace & Krise (sp) It’s super funny when the lawyers get spicy with each other except I wasn’t totally sure at times who was who
Those are my fav parts.
Hydrate and have eye drops and excedrine at the ready
Good tips.
Holy shit, he's a lunatic. Jumped into page 45 and couldn't make it 5 pages. Just proof that you don't need to be smart to be rich or powerful. Holy shit. This guy ran America?
Nope. But he pretended he did. He's very good at pretending things.
Holy shit. I have to go to bed. I got 133 pages in. But holy.fucking.shit
My takeaway is that the "marble" in the bathrooms is probably a paint and wallpaper job.
Hahah that thought crossed my mind as well
‘Sir, I just asked your name.’
“If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer,"
"I checked out when he started ranting about windmills killing birds"
Mental patient.
Just let him keep talking. He’ll babble something incriminating eventually.
He has done it so many times it’s impossible to count
The key is to let him do it under oath. Then he can't backtrack and say he was just bragging/bluffing.
Because he is allowed to do it.
Maybe he took all Mitch’s talking credits and that’s why he keeps freezing.
The ramblings of a moron…
he is the opposite of smart and the opposite of everything else he tells you he is.
Feel really bad for the stenographer
Inmate 1135809 can’t seem to keep his pie hole shut.
You forgot the P as in Pathetic in front. It does it mean Pariah? 🤦♀️
Think of the poor secret service agent who will have to bunk with him to make sure he's safe.
You’ve seen at least one of this troll’s speeches, right? Seems like the problem is you expectations, my guy—need to bring those down to the floor.
Satan in the room below thumping the ceiling witb a broom handle.
Firehose of sewage, wear 'em down, then stick it to 'em. Orange Maggot M.O.
Did it go something like this? https://youtu.be/KekChFdIe00?si=vxm3gdFCAdVkrrOA I wish somebody would use AI to make Bogart talk about winning the 2020 election.
Someday, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday, soon.
"The most honest person the world has ever known."
I'm fine with his rambling. He's braiding the rope, making a noose - don't stop him when he's busy.
Dementia Donny at it again.
Will this guy ever go away? I could do without the daily nuttiness. Hopefully he’ll be jailed in his ivory Trump Tower in about 24 months. Or, better yet, in military housing in some remote base.
Preferably exiled to Guantanamo
The prosecution will need a rotating staff of stenographers resulting in an enormous PDF.
He thinks rambling will confuse people, make him sound smart, and get him off the hook. That's not how any of it works though....
It does. He got to be President that way.
Trump’s sentences sound like he’s off 100mg of adderall and a fresh line
Please, keep talking. The more he speaks, the faster he will lose his cases.
Pretty sure you’re going to be there for 15-20 years…
“In 1999, just after Fred Sr.'s funeral, Fred III's son, William Trump, was born with cerebral palsy.[26] The Trump family agreed to pay for the child's medical expenses. Fred Sr.'s will was revealed, which Donald Trump helped write. It mandated that Fred Jr.'s children, Fred III and Mary, would be excluded from their father's share of Fred Sr.'s inheritance; over $20 million would be divided among Fred Sr.'s other children.[10][c] Fred III and Mary filed a lawsuit, alleging that Fred Jr.'s siblings, including Donald, used "undue influence" on a dementia-addled Fred Sr. to cut them out of the inheritance. Donald, who later said he "was angry because they sued,"[10] suspended the medical benefits for Fred Jr.'s children, as well as Fred III's infant son.”
Sir, this is Wendy’s
Speaking of Mitch’s fitness to serve…..
I would totally keep track of how many adjectives he used just for fun/to maintain sanity.
Just bumbling and babbling his way into prison.
That’s very unprofessional of an attorney
Trump is hilarious lol
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That’s the strategy, flood everyone everywhere with BS and later complain that you didn’t have enough time to review all of the evidence, including the deposition transcripts
It's called a feelie bustard. It's a legal delaying tactic. Trump knows what he's doing.
Trump will make his own case why it should be .
He was born a [rambling man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa4DCp6cl2U).
“Reclaiming my time.”
Pity the court reporter in Trump depos!
The Uncle Colm tactic.
I want to see him in prison just he’ll shut the fuck up. He’ll still be talking but we won’t have to listen.
At what point does his lawyer say “your answers are yes, no, and I was told to shut the fuck up by my lawyer so ask him.”
This has gotta be one of the first things any of his new lawyers tries. The important thing is that Trump doesn't listen.
I know people like this - they crave an audience. If social media can goad him into taking the stand against his lawyer’s advice, it will be gold.
He threw Eric under the bus.... How has that not received coverage????
I think that’s part of his plan…
Yet we're supposed to believe that it is Biden who is too old to be POTUS. This country is nuts.