Ex-Trump Lawyer Explains How GOP Stooges Could Hurt The Case More Than Anything
HuffPost
Tim Parlatore recalled one moment in particular that could have “a negative impact” on the jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
The courtroom attendance of Donald Trump’s GOP sycophants during the ex-president’s hush money trial may end up doing Trump more harm than good, a former lawyer for the presumptive GOP nominee said Wednesday.
Tim Parlatore told CNN’s Brianna Keilar that he didn’t know “how effective” the shows of support from high-profile Republicans such as Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) and former 2024 presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy would be with the jury.
“I heard that there was an incident where a couple of elected officials walked in, made kind of a bustle, not waiting for a break,” Parlatore recalled.
“I think that when you do that kind of thing, it does have the potential for a negative impact on the jury,” he continued. “I don’t think that doing that kind of theatrics within the courtroom is going to necessarily be helpful, especially when you have the judge who apparently was visibly annoyed by that as well. That also has an effect on the jury.”
Keilar asked Parlatore if he thinks Trump should himself take the stand to counter allegations that he falsified business records to cover up a payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to silence her over their alleged affair. Trump denies the claims.
"Let's calm down," the CNN anchor had to repeatedly tell the top Trump White House adviser after he started shouting live on air.
Critics called the footage "unconscionable" and "grotesque."
Critics also slammed the move as “full-blown dictator stuff."
The president's remarks were ripped as "morally disgusting" by Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who is an expert on authoritarianism.
The Democratic lawmaker put the billionaire on blast during an MSNBC interview.
Harrison Jones, 21, is accused of setting a fire that destroyed a family's home, left them injured and killed their dogs.
More than 4,000 probationary workers lost their jobs in recent days as part of DOGE's ongoing purge.
Somehow, the expense has flown under the radar of the waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE.
The College Republicans of America deemed the tame remark "inappropriate."
Joe Biden granted clemency to the Native American rights activist literally minutes before his presidency ended.
Mordechai Brafman, 27, was charged with two counts of attempted murder after shooting and injuring the two men in Miami Beach, Florida.
The judge found some of the concerns raised by the University of California Student Association "entirely conjectural."
The Indigenous activist was serving two life sentences for the 1975 killings, which he argued were in self-defense.