'Absolute impunity': Ex-prosecutor outraged Trump got no punishment for disobeying judge
January 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has continued to attack writer E. Jean Carroll as her civil defamation trial against him unfolds — and at trial today, he denied sexually assaulting her and besmirched her credibility, two things Judge Lewis Kaplan had explicitly prohibited him from doing before he moved to testify. But he faced no consequences for his actions, apart from having some of his commentary stricken from the record.
The current civil trial Trump faces is purely about assessing damages, and is not intended to revisit the facts that previous juries ruled against Trump on.
This development angered former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, who offered a deep dive analysis on his "Justice Matters" show. And, he added, he struggles to see a "silver lining" in all of this, as he usually does.
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"Let's be clear, friends," said Kirschner. "Donald Trump was ordered, was directed, was instructed by the judge of what he may not say, what he was prohibited from saying, and Donald Trump took the stand and immediately said those things. And he wasn't sanctioned, he wasn't held accountable, he wasn't held in contempt, even though he showed nothing but contempt for the judge and the process."
By contrast, Kirschner said, a young man of color on trial for a minor offense who showed that kind of attitude to the judge would likely be grabbed by security.
Trump, as well as his longtime strategist Peter Navarro, who was sentenced to four months in prison today, have committed "democracy-busting crimes," he added — but because they committed crimes with their "words" and not a gun, the justice system treats them more gently.
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