The decision by a New York State Supreme Court judge to require depositions from the Malignant Loser and his offspring in the State's investigation must be causing major anxiety to his legal team:
Law professor and former Federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on MSNBC:
"Trump is that nightmare of a client that you don't want to have as a lawyer, because he cannot stop talking, and we saw that throughout the Trump presidency. We saw it when he often revealed in tweets or in statements information that was then used against him, that formed the basis for understanding misconduct that he was engaging in. And he didn't do it just once or twice. He did it almost on such a regular basis that you couldn't help a little bit but feel sorry for all the lawyers around him. Or at least I often found myself wondering how they tolerated it.
And so you can have the best possible strategy. I don't know what that is in a situation where you're uncovering copious amounts of evidence of potential fraud, but perhaps you would look into finding that there was liability with somebody other than Trump, or you would say that somebody else was responsible. But he keeps saying that he runs the business, that he keeps the numbers. And when he makes statements like that five-pager he put out (Tuesday), he takes responsibility squarely for himself. I think if he is deposed, he'll be unable to resist running his mouth, and ultimately he'll continue to be his own worst enemy in this scenario." (our emphasis)
The "five-pager" diatribe that Vance refers to may be one of the greatest self-owns of all time:
"New York’s attorney general on Wednesday pounced on former President Donald Trump’s defense of company’s financial statements, saying the five-page statement Trump issued a day earlier contradicted a court filing by his attorneys.
'It is not unusual for parties to a legal proceeding to disagree about the facts,' the attorney general’s office wrote in a letter filed in New York state court. 'But it is truly rare for a party to publicly disagree with statements submitted by his own attorneys in a signed pleading -- let alone one day after the pleading was filed.' [snip]
Trump’s attorneys repeatedly stated that he did not know enough to respond to allegations of inaccurate valuations. But the former president’s five-page statement got into detail about possible discrepancies, implying that he had more knowledge than his lawyers said." (our emphasis)
Trump's inability to control his mouth in depositions was what led his lawyers to insist on him responding in writing only to questions during the Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections. In the State of New York's case, he'll try, but he won't be able to hide, especially after contradicting his own attorneys' filing.
(photo: The Malignant Loser telling on himself again? CBS News)
