re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And remember, trump is such a dick that he can’t help showing all his dickishness every single day of a trial. That’s what killed him in the E. Jean trial.

His dickishness isn’t what’s going to hurt him, it’s his ego that’s going to do him in. He could have quietly gone to Bragg months back and worked a plea deal where he paid off fines for the misdemeanors or agreed to “community service” in exchange for the felonies being dropped. Or started arguing weeks back that the whole episode had been an attempt to keep the whole thing quiet from Melania, that he’d had Cohen make the payment to keep it secret from his new wife and the later payment had been to cover the debt. Or he could have even tried Gotti-style defense, arguing that Cohen had made the pay-off out of “loyalty” to Trump and the payment he got was unconnected to Daniels altogether.

But no, instead he’s going to sit at the defense table, scowling and mumbling to himself as his lawyers try to convince a jury that the City of New York hates Donald Trump personally and is only putting him on trial to hurt his political career.