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BREAKING! Trump’s Attorneys File Motion For Mistrial After Stormy Daniels Takes the Stand
Gateway Pundit ^ | May 9, 2024 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 05/09/2024 11:57:41 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Trump’s attorneys filed a motion for mistrial on Thursday after Stormy Daniels took the witness stand.

Stormy Daniels took the witness stand again Thursday in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare ‘hush money’ trial against Trump in New York City.

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Trump’s attorneys on Tuesday moved for a mistrial over Stormy Daniels’ testimony, but the crooked judge rejected it.

“What’s the jury to do with that? It’s still extraordinarily prejudicial to insert safety — safety concerns into a trial about business records. There’s no way to unring the bell in our view,” Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche argued.

“As a threshold matter, Mr. Blanche, I agree that there were things that would have been better left unsaid. I think the witness was a little difficult to control,” Judge Merchan said, according to ABC News.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: carteljudge; cartelstooge; juanmerchan; judgecartelmerch; judgemerch; judgemerchan; judgewetbackcur; merchan; mistrial; persecution; stormydaniels; travesty; trump; wetbackcur
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To: Jeff Vader

Unless Trump is prevented from taking office after he wins, marchan has made himself a powerful enemy.


21 posted on 05/09/2024 12:36:41 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Blanche should demand to show some of Stormy’s films to let the jury know what a helpless victim she is.


22 posted on 05/09/2024 12:42:41 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: PGR88
Its how they rolled with Russia-gate, with Covid, with Ukraine, with the economy.

I feel for them, really. It must be a burden to be so evil that you can never tell people what you really want or they'd hate you.

23 posted on 05/09/2024 12:46:26 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Perhaps the Trump hating jurors will be satisfied that his reputation has been smeared even more, but can't find the needed elements of a crime. Then again, we won't know until they come back with a verdict.

I've been wondering all along...

The LAAP-dog media made a lot of noise about two lawyers being on the jury and how they may become "super jurors" because of their knowledge of the law. The thought was that the other jurors would defer to the lawyers in a sort of "The Runaway Jury" situation.

That said, if it is clear that there is no case here, that the law was misapplied, that Bragg failed to meet the threshold of proving his case, that there is no underlying crime that that bootstrapped the expired misdemeanors, that the legal expenses were properly booked as legals expenses, and that President Trump was not personally involved in the low-level day-to-day staff operations of their departments, and if these lawyers vote to convict President Trump anyway, can those two lawyers be brought up on ethics violations to the NY bar association? Aren't they still officers of the court? Don't they still have a duty to the law even though they are sitting on a jury?

-PJ

24 posted on 05/09/2024 12:47:05 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Macho MAGA Man
“As a threshold matter, Mr. Blanche, I agree that there were things that would have been better left unsaid. I think the witness was a little difficult to control,” Judge Merchan said

Translated:

OUR money was more effective. /s

25 posted on 05/09/2024 12:48:30 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Red Badger

“Sounds like she was being coached.”

All witnesses are coached. Nothing illegal as long as the witness is honest when asked during direct or cross-examination.


26 posted on 05/09/2024 12:51:14 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Texas Fossil

cousin it??


27 posted on 05/09/2024 12:53:49 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I wager he has WH orders nothing changes he has to suck up to keep the job.


28 posted on 05/09/2024 1:00:27 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

He wanted the jury (and the public) to hear it. Even if he instructs the jury to disregard it, you can’t get the milk back into the cow. (I know your question was rhetorical, but I answered it anyway).


29 posted on 05/09/2024 1:04:11 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: Regulator
Blanche should demand to show some of Stormy’s films to let the jury know what a helpless victim she is.

See how those three guys are oppressing poor Spermy!

30 posted on 05/09/2024 1:04:49 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Flaming Conservative
He wanted the jury (and the public) to hear it.

cartel stooge Wetback Cur

Pinochet would have known what to do with him and his daughter.

31 posted on 05/09/2024 1:13:28 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The article leaves off the Merchan comment which follows which is particularly outrageous: After over-ruling defense objections to Stormy Daniels testifying at all (as irrelevant) and defining further objections that there is just no need for those kind of details, how she felt about it, as this “is a case about books and records”, Merchan chided the defense for not objecting more and claimed he hadn’t over-ruled their objections to various things coming in - despite clearly doing so.


32 posted on 05/09/2024 1:14:32 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Trumps lawyers sat their enthralled by her tale. Didn’t object once. Because of trump’s lawyers incompetence, I’d reject a mistrial myself.


33 posted on 05/09/2024 1:16:18 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Political Junkie Too
It's a darn shame that we don't have our local FR operative around to disagree with you and defend cartel "judge" Wetback Cur...   
34 posted on 05/09/2024 1:17:37 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: brownsfan

Guilty of having crappy lawyers. How can they sit there listening to crap and not object? I think trump has the worst lawyers.


35 posted on 05/09/2024 1:18:21 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: napscoordinator

You’re typing this one-handed while you’re re-watching Spermy Daniels’ testimony for the 15th time...


36 posted on 05/09/2024 1:18:47 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: napscoordinator

Have Trump’s lawyers spoiled your daily toobin?


37 posted on 05/09/2024 1:19:41 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: kiryandil

What drugs are you on? They make you nonsensical.


38 posted on 05/09/2024 1:21:43 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: kiryandil

Interesting. You fool. it’s not videotaped. You have to be the biggest liar on earth. God knows you are going to burn for eternity.


39 posted on 05/09/2024 1:23:22 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: napscoordinator

Trumps lawyers sat their enthralled by her tale. Didn’t object once. Because of trump’s lawyers incompetence, I’d reject a mistrial myself.


They objected to all of it - on several grounds and on several aspects - and were overruled, and objected to many details of it. They were specific as to the type of objectionable things that Daniels was likely to say. They objected and got the judge to declare ‘guardrails’ in instructions to the prosecution, on the testimony, which were generally not enforced.


40 posted on 05/09/2024 1:24:04 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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