testimony. that's really when we zoom in, that's what the purpose is of this hearing. the prosecution wants to bring in these things insofar as they tend to show his falsity, his pattern of false statements. so that's what they want to bring in. really strateically they really want to back up the dump truck and bring in all the bad evidence that they can about donald trump. and that's not limited to trump as defendant. this has long been the strategy of state prosecutors, federal prosecutors, they always want to bring in bad character evidence because it's so devastatingly effective. that's why we have a rule and we have so many rules at the federal and state level that really limit how much of this comes in and leave it to the judge. in almost every case where this happens you really can't have a blueprint. it's a judgment call because it's a balancing test. and the judge is ultimately going to balance how prejudicial this is against how valuable it is as evidence, what's called the probative effect included with its relevance. but every judge has to balance that out, and there's really no
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