In closing, Trump's team takes the jurors for idiots

[Zorro]

Donald Trump’s lawyers ended their defense of the former president in a way uniquely suited to their client: with a ludicrous and easily debunked lie.

In Tuesday’s closing arguments of Trump’s hush money trial here, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the jury that the revelation of the “Access Hollywood” tapes — Trump’s “grab ’em by the p---y” moment, which set off the fateful effort to buy Stormy Daniels’s silence — was not the earthshaking event we all remember it being for the 2016 Trump campaign. Rather, Blanche said, it was just one of those things “that happens all the time in campaigns.”

“The government wants you to believe that the release of that tape, from 2005, was so catastrophic to the campaign that it provided a motive, a motive for President Trump to do something criminal. But there is no evidence of that,” Blanche said. Rather, Trump’s lawyer maintained, “it was not a doomsday event,” and Trump “never thought that it was going to cause him to lose the campaign.”

With indignation, Blanche lied to the jury: “You heard that politicians reacted negatively to the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape. They didn’t testify. You heard that there was even talk about something consequential for President Trump, who was the Republican nominee. But none of that happened. None of that is true.”

Republican officeholders didn’t rain denunciations on Trump? Party elders didn’t discuss replacing him as the GOP nominee? Blanche must have supposed that these jurors have been sequestered. In a cave. For 10 years.

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[marble falls]

1. I hope they did more than enough of it. Good. TFG is going to appeal because of inadequate defense and sue ...

[unblock]

2. Yeah right. The casting couch date rape was in 2006, the nda was in 2016.

The nda and payoff was 10 years later, during the few weeks between the time the access Hollywood tapes came out and the election.

But yeah, it had nothing to do with his campaign.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. I thought they had to stick to evidence presented in the court room

He went to vague memories or impressions of what happened in 2016?

[Srkdqltr]

4. We will see if they convict before we know who is the idiot.

[Jean Genie]

5. idiots

I guess they believe the old adage: it takes one to know one!

[question everything]

6. Wikileaks?

The next paragraph:

Eight years ago, Trump himself worried aloud that the “Access Hollywood” episode would cost him the election (and it may well have, if not for WikiLeaks and James Comey): “If 5 percent of the people think it’s true, and maybe 10 percent,” Trump said in one clip from a rally that prosecutors later played for the jury, “we don’t win.”

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I don't remember, what role did Wikileaks play?