• Billiam@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Idealistically, you’re right. But it says volumes that someone would be willing to say a lot of shit in front of a camera (where the consequences are miniscule), but refuse to say the exact same shit in front of a judge (where the consequences are serious [assuming you’re not a “rich” white orange cult leader]).

    Trump doesn’t testify for the one reason we all know: he’d incriminate himself faster than any piece of evidence that could ever be produced.

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      6 months ago

      Oh, yeah. We all know. lol. But, for better or worse, he’s entitled to the same constitutional protections the rest of us are.

      • HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social
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        6 months ago

        Yes, it can’t impact the trial, that he didn’t testify. Doesn’t mean we can’t infer, out here away from the court, that he put up a big front in public and slunk away with his tail between his legs in court, because he knew he was guilty and would only have made things worse if he testified, along with earning some counts of perjury.