and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jacks mitt s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on a collision course with the courtroom reality. that s what we saw this week as the disgraced former presidents that up for just a few minutes, in his own defense and the new york attorney generals civil fraud trial, when trump rambled, dissembled and presented himself as usual, as a
no proper speak impact to him or to his lawyers, not that judge kaplan is one sided or the other, but he is going to ensure that there is a fair trial, that these jurors are not intimidated, that they get a chance to hear the evidence. i don t think that there is any reason to doubt that trump is concerned about that. will he show up? he might make a cameo appearance, but given that, miss carroll s trial team has already said that they need some help in controlling mr. trump, so it won t be an upper, like in the a.g. s case. my sense is that if he shows up, it will be in and out, and he s not going to get away with what he did in the a.g.. case so, let s talk about accountability though when it comes to this. donald trump continues to defame e. jean carroll, continues to claim he does not know who she is, and he says stuff like, i have absolutely no idea who this woman is, but i am going to go to it, that being the trial, and i am going to explain to i don t know who the hell she is.
himself as usual, as a victim, which did not appear to impress the judge, who ultimately will decide the outcome of this case. . trump then slip slumped away to his downtown building, having failed to convince anyone with his defense in court, he tried to work the media. my legal issues, every one of them, civil and the criminal ones, are all set up. it s like we re a third world country, a banana republic. to be clear, all of that, it s a lie. he also used that press conference to work the media about his case, at the d.c. circuit court of appeals is currently deciding, by pushing nightmare scenarios if they quarter sides that a president of the united states is not completely immune from all crimes while they re in office. a president of this country asked to have immunity. the other part of trump s outside game legal strategy is using his house republican
if judge kaplan let too much happen. you know what s interesting about edematous case, his guilt is already established. there is a composite tory phase, where there is a request now for 10 million in damages, which is the quantity to help miss carroll get her life back, her reputation back, to try to restore her sense of life for the great threats, the threats of death, et cetera. beyond compensatory, this jury, which has the real power, here can award punitive damages, and they can punish trump for his forecast resistance in the media. by that, i mean, continuing to defame her, continuing to ignore the evidence, continuing to really push that first jury verdict aside and, say who says who cares if these stories found that i defend her. i keep saying it, occupying. so, this jury can find in a bid damages for the fact that trump continues to thumb its nose at
mascara, they defamation by donald trump was clearly establish. the jury found, and we now have another jury, another democratic exercise endures figuring out how much it is that mr. trump defamed miss carroll, how much he hurt her by doing that, how he destroyed her life, how she has received great threats, death threats, her reputation has been armed in a huge way. he knows that the limited piece of this case, what this jury will see is going to be a litany of ways he victimizes and harms the life of miss carroll. because his skill is already established, already clear that he defamed her. it s already clear that he lied about her, repeatedly. all that is left here is going to be a limited trial about how he victimized her. that is completely counter to his narrative of himself being victimized by the jury system. so, these jurors are going to hear chapter in verse of how he