As always, I’ll do my best to live toot reports when they start. This will be the thread.
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Via Klasfeld:
Good morning from #NewYork.
Trump’s gagged, and his ex-accountant spills the beans.
Those are just two of the news items that came out of Day Two of the civil fraud trial.
Follow us for Day Three #TrumpTrial #legal
2/ Trump arrived at the courthouse and @atrupar posted a vid in which Trump says this AFTER a gag order was imposed on him:
Trump dehumanizes Letitia James as a "political animal"
And this AFTER his team failed to ask for a jury trial:
Trump: "If I had a jury we'd win this case very easily, but I don't have a jury ... this is the beginning of communism."
3/ Klasfeld: (ICYMI, this is a judge with a sense of humor as well as gravitas)
Trump's lawyer Jose Suarez tells the judge he's gotten the message: "I also understand that in the Great State of NY it's called a triplex," pronouncing it like "triple" instead of "tri-."
Co-counsel Chris Kise quips: "Judge, in the South, it's just called apartment."
Engoron asks if they have triplexes in South.
Kise replies: That's why we call it an apartment.
Bender's testimony begins shortly after that.
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