[U: Excellent Live Video From The Courtroom!] I DO NOT Intend To Cover Much More Of This, As It Is... Preposterous. But Tangerine Is Going To Lose In NY Frauds Trial.

As we all are painfully aware, Tangerine is under oath today, in NY state level court -- trying to defend his actions in the $250 million of financial frauds case brought by NY AG Letitia James.

And, zero surprise -- it is an act of. . . self-immolation. Here's a bit of The Guardian's (UK) live blogging:

“. . .Mr. Kise [Trump trial counsel], that was a simple yes or no question,” [NY State Judge] Engoron said.

“The question was whether he believed that was an accurate number. We got another speech.”

Engoron threatened to boot Trump from proceedings and urged Kise to control his client or else.

“If you can’t, I will. I will excuse him and draw every [permissible] negative inference. . . .”

Kise said that it was only right for Engoron to hear Trump out.

“No, I do not want to hear everything that he has to say,” said Engoron with increasing annoyance. “He has a lot to say that has nothing to do with the case or the questions.”

“I would urge the court to take in all the questions,” Kise pushed back. “This is a situation where you have, on the stand, [a witness who is] a candidate for president of the United States.”

Kise then invoked Trump’s campaign, saying of the testimony that: “Having him here takes away from that effort.”

Another Trump attorney, Alina Habba, voiced opposition. Engoron eventually told them “sit down already. . . .”

When questioning resumed, Trump grumbled: “This is a very unfair trial. . . and I hope the public is watching. . . .”

Sheesh. We are. And you are an insufferable buffoon, man.

And (while I'm at it). . . any purported polling in swing states, here a year out. . . is less than meaningless. [Perhaps never in the history of the nation is any one candidate more likely to be a convicted felon, by next November. Jailed, even perhaps.]

More broadly, there has never been a candidate whose fortunes may/will change so radically, in under 11 months, due entirely to factors he no longer has any meaningful control over.

His ship — on all this sailed three years ago, now — and in the case of NY State, at least a decade ago. In addition, no polling takes into accout the millions of votes Mr. Kennedy will ultimately siphon away from Trump, primarily.

So, never in the history of the world. . . have polls taken more than a year out, held less predictive value. Out, grinning. . . .

UPDATED: This classic Monty Python bit reminded our Anon. commenter of. . . the Tangerine, today on the stand. Enjoy:



There you have it!

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