Sep 9, 2024
TRUMP JUST HUMILIATED HIS OWN LEGAL TEAM
Former President Donald Trump blamed his own legal team for failing to get a new trial in the E. Jean Carroll civil case.
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I feel sad that I have
to come up here and explain it.
I have all this legal talent, but legal
talent cannot overcome rigged judges.
They can't overcome a 4% Republican area.
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And I'm disappointed in my legal talent.
I'll be honest with you.
- My God.
- No, that was amazing.
Donald Trump, through his own legal talent
under the bus as his legal talent,
was standing right behind him.
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That's so wonderfully humiliating.
I love that so much.
It gets worse.
We got way more clips for you.
And, I mean, and the actions
of the guy on the right is hilarious.
I love every piece of this.
And then we'll come back and tell you
what the hell is going on here.
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Yeah, I can, I can just see Alina Habba,
like her soul dying.
Like just good, good.
You know, you thought it was a great idea
to suck up to Trump, and you thought
you were going to be a star?
- Yes, but it involves ritual humiliation.
- It really does.
I mean, a lot of people have been
total loyalists to Donald Trump
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ended up being humiliated by him.
We'll get to that.
But just to give you some context
about what this is all about, it has
to do with the E. Jean Carroll case.
That was a civil case
that Donald Trump, of course, lost.
She sued him for defamation
after alleging that he had sexually
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assaulted her back in the 1990s.
Now, Trump was attempting
to get a new trial after a jury found
him guilty of sexually abusing
and defaming E Jean Carroll.
But apparently he was not happy
with his team's effort.
He was unable to get a new trial.
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Carroll had accused Trump
of sexually assaulting her back in 1996,
in a dressing room at a department store
called Bergdorf Goodman.
At the trial last year,
she was awarded $5 million in damages.
Now, speaking to reporters after his
court appearance, Trump called out his own
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lawyers, including his current campaign
adviser Alina Habba and Will Scharf.
And they're behind him obviously
as this is happening.
And here's more on why he is
displeased with how things went.
Today at the trial.
They didn't mention the the dress.
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So the Monica Lewinsky type dress
was a big part of the trial.
Big, big part of the trial.
I said, why didn't you mention that?
And I heard there was a dress involved,
and I wasn't frightened at all
because I did nothing with her.
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Never, never touched this woman,
saw this woman, knew.
I had no idea who she was.
But they have a dress, sir.
I said so what?
Well, sir, it's very. Sir.
They used that dress
to try and intimidate me.
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They used that dress with the public.
That dress was such a famous dress.
It was Monica Lewinsky, part two.
The judge when he heard that it was.
It showed totally negative.
Totally negative.
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The judge wouldn't allow us
to use it at trial.
Okay, before we get into
what the dress is all about.
Okay.
Before we address the dress,
like, let's just have a little bit of fun
because I can't get enough of the faces
of the lawyers standing behind him.
Okay. Totally.
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So let's watch their strained faces. Okay.
As he is speaking, it's amazing.
And I'm disappointed in my legal talent.
I'll be honest with you.
They're good. They're good people.
They're talented people.
I'm disappointed in my legal talent.
I'll be honest with you.
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They're good. They're good people.
They're talented people.
Jake, do you want to comment on that
before we get into the dress?
So I love the mad blinking
of the dude on the right.
Like, what's he saying? What's he saying?
Is he just throwing us under the bus
while I'm here on camera?
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I made it, Ma. Yeah.
And Elena was like,
I know I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay.
And then the guy on the right
for the rest of the three minute rant
about how terrible his lawyers are,
he's, like, looking down.
And every once in a while
he looks at Alina Habba
and there's another lawyer to her, right?
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Like like desperate.
Like, what is he saying?
Like.
Yeah, well, you should ask Chris Christie
before you took the job on how Trump
humiliates people who back him.
And why do you think he can't get
any lawyers other than you clowns?
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Because he never pays you
and he throws you under the bus
for his own idiotic mistakes.
And that leads back to the dress.
Okay, so if you're wondering
what the hell he's talking about
when it comes to what he referred to as,
like the Monica Lewinsky 2.0 dress,
you won't be surprised to learn that he is
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to be generous, being misleading here.
So you heard.
Okay, so you heard him criticizing
his attorney, John Sawyer.
Sawyer. Sawyer.
Sawyer.
Who argued Trump's case on Friday
for not bringing up the dress that e Jean
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Carroll had claimed had Trump's DNA on it.
Right.
So that was part of the evidence
that she wanted to present in the case.
Now, before heading to trial,
Carole's lawyers had sought
Trump's DNA for three years to compare
it with stains found on the dress.
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Carole Ward the days or the day
she says Trump, you know, raped her
in a department store dressing room
in late 1995 or early 1996.
Analysis of DNA on the dress concluded.
It did, in fact, contain traces
of an unknown man's DNA.
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And so, as a result, you know,
her legal team wanted Trump
to submit his DNA so they can see
if it was his DNA on the dress.
But for three years straight,
he kept saying, no, no, no, no, no.
But then all of a sudden, things changed.
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So Carole's attorney,
Robert Kaplan, called that offer.
So he finally agrees
like late in the game.
He agrees.
Okay, fine, I'll give you my DNA.
But Carole's attorney at the time,
Roberta Kaplan, called that offer
a disingenuous effort to delay an April
trial and prejudice potential jurors.
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She submitted a letter to the judge
saying the sudden offer of DNA after Trump
refused to provide it for three years
was a legally frivolous delay tactic.
And look, I'm inclined to believe that
because Trump and his legal team tends to
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engage in delay tactics and successfully
so in this case, it didn't work.
So he's done a thousand delaying tactics.
He used to do this
even before he ran for president.
And on business issues.
We documented it back in 2016.
So this is a classic favorite of his.
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And then by the way, later,
if you agree to it and then he'll pull it
and say, I'm not doing the DNA test.
He's just a nonstop
one trick after another.
And by the way, he's not wrong in that
those kind of tricks, especially when you
have no evidence and you're wrong,
is a good way of delaying the case,
because that's how he delayed
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all four cases against him, or three
out of the four cases against him.
In fact, he delayed even the 34
felony counts long enough
that he's not going to be sentenced on it.
Right.
So those are all the criminal cases.
This is a civil case.
But guys, think about this.
If someone he says he's never even met
her, that she just came out of the blue
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and made up these crazy allegations
against him.
If somebody did that to you,
I know how I would react
if somebody did that to me and they said,
oh, I have your DNA on a dress of mine.
I'd be like, have at it, Hoss.
I want to test it right away
because I've never even met you.
Of course it's not my DNA. Go for it.
Here, I'll give you my DNA right away.
Okay.
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I wouldn't wait for three years and go.
Oh, no no no no no no
no, I'm not giving my DNA.
I don't want to test it.
Although I've never met her.
Sure, brother.
Sure.
Yeah. So that's what he's upset about.
And you know, he's going to call out
his legal team about it, because, look,
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that's the other thing about Trump.
The unwillingness to ever take personal
responsibility for his own failures,
for his own wrongdoing and this effort
every single time to blame everyone
else around him for what he has done.
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Yeah, I would be shocked
if it wasn't his decision not
to release the DNA, not to give the DNA.
I mean.
Yeah, for three years straight,
he was the one who rejected the.
Notion.
Of course, of course.
But even let's say that.
The lawyers advised him not to.
If my lawyers advised me
not to release DNA, that would prove
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my innocence of a rape charge.
I'd be like, oh, well,
I'll take it under advisement, guys,
but here's my DNA, because I didn't do it.
That's so easy and obvious.
So look, to me, the fact that he
wouldn't give his DNA for three years
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proves he definitely did it.
Besides which, they had a whole trial.
And he definitely did it.
And that's what he was found liable of
and had to pay her $5 million,
let alone the defamation that came later.
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