Tristan Snell on Trump’s New York Civil Fraud Trial
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- Jan 12, 2024
This is a video version of the Lawfare Podcast: Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial.
On January 11, 2024, Donald J. Trump arrived in a New York courtroom for closing arguments in the civil...
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Mar 19, 2024
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"What Trump does in these situations is he uses due process against itself. He makes an argument that is superficial and basically bullshit, but it forces a kind of immune response from the Judiciary... that we must take this argument seriously since it's been put in a brief now we have to actually brief and argue it." - Tristan Snell
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Mar 19, 2024
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"You really have to focus on the signal, not the noise. Trump is going to wheel in the the clown car of attorneys and he's going to make all sorts of outlandish arguments. He's also going to do a lot of counter attacking.
There's a different rule about that you have to be stoic and stay the course and focus on your case. There is a Temptation in a
situation like that to go swinging at every ball that they throw at you and a lot of those balls are going to be in the dirt and you can't swing at them. You need to basically focus on what's your case in Chief. What law are you trying to apply? What evidence do you have? Stay focused on that.
If he actually raises a legal argument... if he actually throws a real pitch at you, go ahead and swing at it." - Tristan Snell