By Hubie and Bertie
The E. Jean Carroll trial is in recess until Monday, which should give her defense team and Judge Lewis Kaplan just about enough time to figure out what the hell Benedict Donald was doing in his very odd performance in New Hampshire tonight. Let's put it this way: He'd better not have been riffing on what happened in that Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. (Audience reaction above? You be the judge.)
That aside, the trial was already not going Trump's way yesterday, and it didn't get much better today. Cross-examining Carroll, attorney Joe Tacopina was representing his bully client by being a bully himself.
Maybe that's just the way he is, but the impression left by reporters who live-tweeted from the overflow room was that it was not going over well in court. Judge Kaplan finally excused Carroll from the room and then basically asked Tacopina WTF he was doing. Jonathan Swift, the New York Yankees, and the word "hyperbole" all made cameo appearances in their subsequent conversation.
Importantly, the judge consistently sustained objections from Team Carroll throughout the cross. Yes, the jury is mostly men, but when an attorney gets ruled against that much without being able to make a dent in a plaintiff's credibility, it damages his client's case.
If Tacopina's poor performance filters down to Mar-a-Lago, it wouldn't be surprising to see Benedict Donald fire him, and then petition the court for a delay while he seeks new counsel. We're betting Judge Kaplan would not be amused. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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