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Rudy Shambles In To Court As Trump Runs For The Hills

The find out is ... pathetic actually.

By Liz Dye on December 11, 2023 3:02 pm

Rudy Giuliani’s defamation trial is off to an auspicious start.

Jury selection is underway in DC as Atlanta poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss seek to hold the former president’s lawyer responsible for falsely claiming that they tabulated thousands of fraudulent ballots on election night. Rudy’s failure to buckle up on discovery got him a default judgment, so the only issue here is how much money he’s going to owe them for damages. His lawyer Joseph Sibley IV confirmed this morning that his client still plans to testify in his own defense, instead of zipping it up, for the love of God.

Meanwhile in Manhattan, Justice Arthur Engoron’s courtroom is silent for the day after Trump decided he’d rather not testify after all. In a three-heave spew on Truth Social, he announced that, since he’d already “VERY SUCCESSFULLY & CONCLUSIVELY TESTIFIED” on cross examination, he “WILL NOT BE TESTIFYING ON MONDAY. MAGA!”

Page 2: THEY CLAIMED THAT MAR-A-LAGO WAS WORTH ONLY $18,000,000, WHEN IT IS WORTH 50 TO 100 TIMES THAT AMOUNT, IN ORDER TO ILLEGALLY REDUCE MY VALUES & MAKE A FAKE CASE AGAINST ME. THEY DID THIS ON OTHER PROPERTIES, AS WELL, & WOULDN’T GIVE ME A JURY. LIKEWISE, THE A.G. THUGS DO NOT WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I HAVE PAID ALMOST 300 MILLION DOLLARS IN NEW YORK CITY & STATE TAXES DURING THE YEARS IN QUESTION. IMPORTANTLY, I WON AT THE APPELLATE DIVISION, WHICH EFFECTIVELY ENDED MOST OF THE CASE, BUT THE BIASED JUDGE REFUSED TO ACCEPT THEIR ORDER, AN UNHEARD OF FIRST! BASED ON THE ABOVE, AND THE FACT THAT OUR UNASSAILABLE FINAL EXPERT WITNESS HAS BEEN SO STRONG AND IRREFUTABLE IN HIS TESTIMONY, WHICH WILL CONCLUDE ON TUESDAY, & THAT I HAVE ALREADY TESTIFIED TO EVERYTHING & HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY OTHER THAN THAT THIS IS A COMPLETE & TOTAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE (BIDEN CAMPAIGN!) WITCH HUNT, THAT WILL DO NOTHING BUT KEEP BUSINESSES OUT OF NEW YORK, I WILL NOT BE TESTIFYING ON MONDAY. MAGA!

On Thursday, Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba promised that Trump was “looking forward to taking the stand” in his own defense on direct examination. After Trump’s legal team showed up a day late and dollar short to appeal the gag order banning them from slagging the judge’s law clerk, Habba vowed that he’d speak his truth on the witness stand anyway, despite the terrible order barring him from lobbing ad hominem attacks at a civil servant who had the nerve to show up at work and do her damn job.

“He will open himself up to whatever they want because he’s not afraid. People who are afraid cower. Trump doesn’t cower.”

https:/twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1733976929722581335?s=20

But apparently these colors do run, because given the opportunity to show up and testify about his magical realism property valuations, Trump headed for the hills. Indeed, cowering appears to be something of a family trait.

Last week, Eric Trump also declined to take the stand, apparently on instructions from his father.

I told my wonderful son, Eric, not to testify tomorrow at the RIGGED TRIAL brought about by A.G. Letitia James’ campaign promise that, without knowing anything about me, “I WILL GET TRUMP!” She ran for A.G., then Governor of New York, and lost! Eric has already testified, PERFECTLY (Unlike their STAR witness-who admitted he lied!), so there is no reason to waste any more of this Crooked Court’s time on having him say the same thing, over and over again, as a witness for the defense (us!). His young life has already been unfairly disturbed and disrupted enough on this corrupt Witch Hunt. Besides, I will be testifying on Monday in this shameful, NO JURY ALLOWED “TRIAL.” Happy Banks and Insurance Companies, NO VICTIMS, GREAT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, Perfect Disclaimer Clause - BUT A CORRUPT ATTORNEY GENERAL AND JUDGE!!!

Yes, Eric, your testimony was PERFECT. That’s why Daddy wants you never to do it again. And his testimony was also PERFECT, so he doesn’t have to do it anymore either.

Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes the Law and Chaos substack and appears on the Opening Arguments podcast.