(May 4, 2023 at 5:53 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 3, 2023 at 11:38 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Trump Will Not Mount a Defense in E. Jean Carroll Rape Case
Sauce.
Is this Trump’s team making a tacit admission, or is this a deliberate ploy for Trump to declare a mistrial? Then again, they might think that they raised enough room for doubt in the cross-examination.
Neither. I think it's more likely to be a savvy move on the part of Trump's lawyers. They know that he's a pathological liar. Testifying would leave him two options, since he's never going to admit that he raped Carroll: he'd either perjure himself, or attempt to 'plead the fifth', which, in a US civil trial, IS an admission of guilt.
Boru
IOW, it's really their only rational option.
