Posted on Nov 9, 2023
Trump will probably go back on the witness stand in fraud trial -- here's why
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Donald Trump could very well take the stand again in his New York fraud trial, and a legal expert explained why the former president might be willing take that risk
The former president testified Monday in the $250 million fraud lawsuit brought by state attorney general Letitia James, and his three eldest children have also taken the witness stand in the case, but MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" that Trump and his sons may be called again by defense attorneys.
"On balance it was bad for Trump family, but I will caveat that [by] saying we expect three of those four Trumps to come back," Rubin said. "Don [Jr.] and Eric will be witnesses for their father. I suspect the former president will be back. Cross examination is always really limited to the scope of what the direct examination is, you can't go beyond that, for the most part. That means his lawyers want to elicit testimony from all three those male Trumps to go beyond what the attorney general was interested in, so they'll bring them back, to afford them, as [defense attorney] Chris Kise complained, the latitude they think the former president and maybe future president should be afforded to explain himself and what it was that he was doing without intent."
Rubin then sketched out what arguments she expects the Trump legal team to offer in his defense.
Donald Trump could very well take the stand again in his New York fraud trial, and a legal expert explained why the former president might be willing take that risk
The former president testified Monday in the $250 million fraud lawsuit brought by state attorney general Letitia James, and his three eldest children have also taken the witness stand in the case, but MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" that Trump and his sons may be called again by defense attorneys.
"On balance it was bad for Trump family, but I will caveat that [by] saying we expect three of those four Trumps to come back," Rubin said. "Don [Jr.] and Eric will be witnesses for their father. I suspect the former president will be back. Cross examination is always really limited to the scope of what the direct examination is, you can't go beyond that, for the most part. That means his lawyers want to elicit testimony from all three those male Trumps to go beyond what the attorney general was interested in, so they'll bring them back, to afford them, as [defense attorney] Chris Kise complained, the latitude they think the former president and maybe future president should be afforded to explain himself and what it was that he was doing without intent."
Rubin then sketched out what arguments she expects the Trump legal team to offer in his defense.
Trump will probably go back on the witness stand in fraud trial -- here's why
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It's so funny how the idiot state still considers his property that we worth eighteen million when you Hi, a two acre piece of land nearby his home worth over a hundred and eighteen million. You can tell us just Pluto clean motivated and notice at every time. An extra charge gets thrown against the former President, his ratings. Go up &c NN and other pro. Biden. Media can't understand it. evil joy for those trying to sandbag him into failure. Seeing that his popularity even among not republicans, is growing, especially with a Make government socialism for the regulatory statel broken economic platform that this President is touting all the time.
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