{"id":43416,"date":"2023-11-07T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/politics\/trumps-day-in-court-paints-a-dark-preview-of-the-national-ordeal-ahead\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T07:00:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T07:00:55","slug":"trumps-day-in-court-paints-a-dark-preview-of-the-national-ordeal-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosfunds.com\/?p=43416","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s day in court paints a dark preview of the national ordeal ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpqx1r001k26qk781mf3wb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      The judge in Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0civil fraud trial\u00a0despairingly pressed the ex-president\u2019s lawyer: \u201cI beseech you to control him if you can.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpv2la00063b6ijtrb58oe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Judge Arthur Engoron\u2019s\u00a0plea reflected his frustration at an incorrigible witness who boasted Monday about his piles of cash,\u00a0aimed scathing political attacks and spouted uniquely illogical logic.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpv2lb00073b6iekt5jwpu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      But Engoron, who is presiding over the New York trial, also put his finger on a deeper question that will define a singular political figure\u2019s place in history.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonrxuu700033b6i20jf5csi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      And the answer, as always, was no, Trump cannot be controlled.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpv2lb00083b6i86teuzyi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      No mere lawyer could impose the kind of discipline that two-and-a-half centuries of constitutional checks and balances could not\u00a0provide during Trump\u2019s time in office or since. And after threatening to dismiss the ex-president from the witness stand, Engoron opted to let the Trump storm rage in the apparent hope that it would blow itself out \u2014 though history\u00a0has shown\u00a0it never does.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpv2lb00093b6ikyqcxq1b@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Trump\u2019s\u00a0combative defense\u00a0against claims he inflated his wealth to rip off banks, insurance firms and New York state, served as a troubling preview of a 2024 election season that is likely to become ensnared with his massive legal peril. But it also revealed insights into Trump\u2019s relentless refusal to give an inch to his enemies and showed why voters who despise East Coast authority figures and liberal societal codes adore him.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpv2lb000a3b6ijps75jtp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      His testimony offered warnings to lawyers who will seek to puncture his self-created bubble of alternative realities with facts and evidence \u2014 and showed how he might try to charm\u00a0and confuse jurors in his coming criminal trials.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpv2lb000b3b6i47oms9qn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      As he climbed into the witness box and lifted his hand\u00a0and swore to tell the truth \u2014 an almost ironic act given his record of falsehoods \u2014 Trump obliterated yet another convention. Ex-presidents in America don\u2019t typically get called to explain their actions in court. And Monday\u2019s four-hour dive into the Trump Organization\u2019s financial records was just a warm up for subsequent criminal courtroom dramas that could mean the Republican Party will nominate a convicted felon for\u00a0president. Trump denies wrongdoing in each and every case against him.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpvz3k000g3b6ijpa8jn5e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Trump in a blue\u00a0suit, tie and shirt instead of his campaign livery of dark suit, white shirt and improbably long red tie, left no doubt that if tearing down legal and political systems is what it will take to save him, he won\u2019t hesitate.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpw3us000i3b6im2ubmas8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      \u201cIt is election interference because you want to keep me in this courthouse all day long,\u201d Trump told prosecutors working for New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing her of trying to base a run for governor on an attempt to destroy his business.\u00a0As he often does, the ex-president was turning facts upside down \u2014 it is he who is politicizing the justice system in his own bid for a return to power.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpw3us000j3b6ia9h9lyc9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      And before he faces judgment,\u00a0Trump is seeking to discredit the organs of accountability that will seal his fate. \u201cIt is an extremely hostile judge,\u201d Trump added, raising his hand to point at Engoron, who sat beside and just above the witness box on the bench.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpw3us000k3b6if2y3fnri@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      The ex-president\u2019s day was a microcosm of a riotous life as a real estate magnate, New York City icon, showbiz reality star and demagogic political candidate and\u00a0US president. He obstructed, exaggerated, spouted insults, brassily trampled courtroom protocol and substituted partisan narratives for the yes and no answers that the judge demanded. Yet Trump also expertly used the outraged stream of consciousness and linguistic dexterity that turns his interrogators in the law, or the media, in knots.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpw3us000l3b6i69w6fbro@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      There were even flashes of humor, hinting at one of the key ingredients of the political method that has seduced millions of Americans. Asked, for instance,\u00a0whether he had built houses on a golf course in Scotland, Trump conceded that he had not but added waspishly: \u201cI have a castle.\u201d And there were oodles of\u00a0quintessential Trump self-promotion. He boasted that his\u00a0Florida\u00a0Mar-a-Lago resort was \u201ca very successful club,\u201d said he\u2019d built the \u201cbest building on the West Coast\u201d and claimed dubiously that his 18 holes in Aberdeen was the \u201cgreatest golf course ever built.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpw3us000m3b6iep93n67x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      At one point, Trump mused:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of cash for a long time.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpw3us000n3b6iojrzsqk2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Trump\u2019s supporters could not\u00a0watch\u00a0him since the trial was not televised but\u00a0they\u00a0would have recognized the bulldozer on the witness stand and the blow-it-all-up persona that made a twice-impeached, four times indicted ex-president who left Washington in disgrace nearly three years ago again the Republican front-runner.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpw3us000o3b6i24ged773@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      It became clear long before Trump left court complaining of a \u201cscam\u201d that his legal strategy was indistinguishable from his familiar political one: admit nothing and brand any criticism as proof\u00a0of\u00a0a vast, unfair plot against him. The goal was transparent: leverage the latest bid to call him to account into a campaign fueled by a martyr complex that can win back presidential powers\u00a0to drive away\u00a0his legal woes.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpw3us000p3b6i1hr3fta1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      \u201cPeople are sick and tired of what\u2019s happening.\u00a0I think it\u2019s a very sad day for America,\u201d Trump said at the end, before noting The New York Times polls showing him leading President Joe Biden in key swing states \u2014 a tactic his lawyer Chris Kise also used to imply the \u201csoon to be\u201d next president wasn\u2019t being shown sufficient respect.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpwot1000t3b6is3nzz6s4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Yet Monday was also a rude awakening for Trump.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpwyvw000v3b6iokygi4ut@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Retired commanders-in-chief are usually surrounded by a force field of deference, with their secret service detachments and forever title\u00a0of\u00a0\u201cMr.\u00a0President.\u201d Trump has long posed as the alpha male\u00a0and\u00a0his entire business and political creed \u2014 in person and on social media\u00a0\u2013\u00a0is based on intimidation. But it must\u00a0have been\u00a0a long time since anyone\u00a0had\u00a0shushed\u00a0Trump\u00a0like Engoron, cutting him off ahead of another meander by saying,\u00a0\u201cNo, no, you answered the question.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpwyvw000w3b6i8d5cd882@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      There\u00a0was no \u201cMr. President\u201d from the\u00a0attorney general\u2019s\u00a0lawyers or the judge. The witness was simply \u201cMr.\u00a0Trump.\u201d He sat on a leather chair, alone in the wood paneled witness box, his hands clasped in his lap.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpwyvw000x3b6ia9wk4npl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      But the trial quickly became a test of wills between Trump and Engoron over who controlled the court. After one trip by Trump down a rabbit hole, the judge asked the lawyers if they had asked for an \u201cessay\u201d on brand value. Frustrated with partisan asides, Engoron warned that \u201cthis is not a political rally,\u00a0this is a courtroom.\u201d And the judge bristled at the ex-president\u2019s complaint that he always ruled against him. Adopting a tone typical of Trump subordinates, Kise argued with the judge\u2019s admonitions against speeches and lauded the ex-president\u2019s \u201cbrilliant\u201d replies.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpwyvw000y3b6ijv6ahtho@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Later, the judge, perhaps trying to avoid offering grist for a potential appeal said he\u2019d let the ex-president ramble. But by the end of the day, Engoron\u2019s resolve frayed: \u201cIt feels like a broken record,\u201d he said of Trump\u2019s answers. The ex-president snapped back: \u201cHe keeps asking me the same question over and over.\u201d Engoron will however get the last word. He has already ruled that Trump, his\u00a0two\u00a0adult sons and the Trump Organization\u00a0are liable for\u00a0fraud in inflating his wealth in return for advantageous deals with banks and insurance firms. The trial will resolve related claims and decide how much\u00a0restitution is due and whether he will be barred from doing business in New York.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpxvsi00123b6ipn212l69@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      It was hard to tell whether Trump had helped or hurt himself. He did appear to disrupt the smooth running of the trial. But\u00a0\u2013\u00a0as he complained at one point\u00a0\u2013\u00a0there is no jury, and Engoron will be left to adjudicate the trial.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpy3ki00143b6i215oedfi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Trump\u2019s defense broadly rested on three planks. He denied accusations that he\u2019d inflated his properties, insisting conversely that he\u2019d undervalued most of them by not including ill-defined millions of dollars implied by his \u201cbrand\u201d and its potential. He claimed that he was protected by a disclaimer clause in financial documents,\u00a0which meant that banks and insurance firms had to do their own due diligence. And he\u00a0repeatedly\u00a0insisted that\u00a0\u201cthere were no victims,\u201d so there can have been no crime.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpy3ki00153b6ivic6c89i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      This blanket deniability and belief in his own imperviousness echoed Trump\u2019s false proclamations in office that the Constitution granted him almost absolute powers. Or that the phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that earned him his first impeachment or his January 6, 2021 speech before the Capitol insurrection were \u201cperfect.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpy3ki00163b6ild4suwda@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      Trump also offered an intriguing glimpse into his mindset as a businessman that makes it easier to understand his false insistence that he actually won the 2020 election when he clearly lost it.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpy3ki00173b6ije9u9a5t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      \u201cI can look at a building and tell you what they are worth,\u201d he said, creating the impression that the true valuation of a property was something he could just pluck out of the air, with little regard for all the complex financial instruments that normally add up to an investment\u2019s true value. This desire to make a reality just\u00a0what\u00a0he wants it to be has long defined Trump\u2019s political approach. And he seems to adopt a similar tactic in looking at an election and deciding who won regardless of the actual evidence about who got the most votes.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpy3ki00183b6i0yu91ulx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      This question of whether Trump actually believes what he says will be key to two election interference trials \u2014 one in federal court in Washington and one in Georgia where prosecutors must show he intended to break the law. Trump insists that he was convinced he won in 2020, despite all evidence to the contrary. And in his virtual reality world, he may believe it or may at least be able to convince a jury he did.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clonpy3ki00193b6ik4pxwkpv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n      But the most sobering takeaway of Trump\u2019s day in court on Monday was that while the law might succeed in enforcing accountability where constitutional and political constraints failed, there is no sign yet that anyone or anything can bring the potential 47th president of the United States under control.\n  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/11\/07\/politics\/trumps-day-in-court-paints-a-dark-preview-of-the-national-ordeal-ahead\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge in Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0civil fraud trial\u00a0despairingly pressed the ex-president\u2019s lawyer: \u201cI beseech you to control him if you can.\u201d Judge Arthur Engoron\u2019s\u00a0plea reflected his frustration at an incorrigible witness who boasted Monday about his piles of cash,\u00a0aimed scathing political attacks and spouted uniquely illogical logic. 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