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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trump's lawyer gets called out by the judge for trying to mislead the jury. [View all]
Donald the crook, hires crooked lawyers!!
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Trumps lawyer gets called out by the judge for trying to mislead the jury. While Pecker was on the stand being cross examined, trumps lawyers tried to present documents they say was Peckers earlier testimony. They were blank.
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"Real embarrassment": Trump lawyer apologizes after judge called him out for "misleading" jury
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By Charles R. Davis, 18 hours ago
"Real embarrassment": Trump lawyer apologizes after judge called him out for "misleading" jury
By Charles R. Davis, 18 hours ago
It was a pretty good day for Donald Trump and his defense team. David Pecker, the former National Enquirer publisher, was seen by jurors as being a little fuzzy on the details of a key moment: an August 2015 meeting where prosecutors say he, Michael Cohen and the former president conspired to break campaign finance laws by cementing an agreement to "catch-and-kill" potentially damning stories about the Republican candidate.
During cross examination, Trump attorney Emil Bove pressed the witness on why he was now testifying that Hope Hicks then-director of the Trump campaign's communications team was "in and out" of that Trump Tower meeting when he had previously told federal investigators that she was not there. Bove then handed Pecker a document that the attorney said would refresh his memory.
But that document appears to have been more of a prop than a piece of evidence. After jurors left the room Thursday, and following objections from the prosecution, Judge Juan Merchan accused Bove of leaving the jury with a false impression.
"If there wasn't anything in that document, it's misleading," Merchan said, as HuffPost reported. "I'm going to ask you to be very careful with that."
When Bove sought to defend himself, Merchan cut him off. "Mr. Bove, are you missing my point?"
Norm Eisen, an attorney and CNN legal analyst, said that moment undid whatever good may have been accomplished Thursday from the defense's perspective.
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Trump's lawyer gets called out by the judge for trying to mislead the jury. [View all]
riversedge
Apr 27
OP
Falsifying information - the reason there is a Trial in the first place - even TSF's lawyers are criminals
Traurigkeit
Apr 27
#2
If complete and thorough revelation of facts in a case were the standard for legal representation.........
jaxexpat
Apr 27
#4
Standard is defence doesn't have to show anything. But tRump lawyer IS out of line
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 27
#6
Oh. I totally get it. The guilty walk away if evidence of their guilt remains hidden from the court, ......
jaxexpat
Apr 27
#34
Doesn't an attorney have to show documents to opposing counsel before introducing it to the jury?
3Hotdogs
Apr 27
#13
my guess, the doc probably had some references to comments Pecker had made about the meeting and hope hicks...
thesquanderer
Apr 27
#45
The most famous "Blank document" episode in U.S. history. "Tail Gunner" Joe McCarthy -- Wheeling W.V. Feb. 9, 1950.
3Hotdogs
Apr 27
#12