where he ll finally experience consequences for some of his actions. next week, tuesday, marks the beginning of the second e. jean carroll defamation trial. news on that later on. but first things first, developments ahead of closing arguments. tomorrow in new york s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. the judge revealed he would not allow donald trump to deliver part of those closing arguments himself as he had requested. the reasoning, neither trump nor his attorneys ever got back to the judge agreeing to preconditions. in truth, it is hard to imagine what trump wanted more, an opportunity to put himself at the center of proceedings to deliver his message in his own way, or an opportunity like this, to complain, whine about being silenced, despite the fact his own team failed to respond to the judge on time. remember, in both cases, e. jean carroll s defamation and new york s civil fraud, trump s guilt has already been determined. these decisions will only settle the punish.
hoping for. of course, we all live for caucus nights and election nights, because that s when the voters actually say what they re going to do. but for desantis, this is viewed by my sources at his attempt at a land stand for for haley, it s her attempt to use second place as a springboard into new hampshire. this chris christie news changes the dynamics on the ground there, especially independent voters who can vote in this republican primary if they re unaffiliated. that s going to be important to the way that haley mounts her turnout operation. of course she has the group on the ground doing all of that grassroots and door knocking, sort of supplementing the work her campaign is already doing. that will be critically important. one final point here, although it is a real disservice to voters that trump is not on a debate stage airing his ideas and defending his time in office for them to sort of assess his candidacy now, politically i think the decision looks smart because it allows
listening to the beginning of the live stream, it appears there was some kind of a hot mic moment where he was talking about the impact of getting him out of the race and what that impact could be on the other contenders. this is in the last few minutes. we overheard that christie said desantis called him, in christie s words, petrified. and another brief hot mic moment, christie said, you and i both know it, she s not up to this, referencing nikki haley. at another point, he said she was still 20 or points down from donald trump in states like new hampshire. if we had any question about what our sources were saying to us about christie not being expected to endorse, certainly that seems to underscore if not likely he ll go in for any of his opponents at this stage. that s notable. we ll see if he s as candid as
staff nor the new york state court system. he went onto outline time limits, suggested he would interrupt trump if warranted, committed to fighting trump, harry first and foremost, these conditions, fair or unfair? totally unfair. normally go without saying. but it s just with him, you cannot leave the unsaid unsaid. what it means is, stick to the evidence, that s what happens in closing arguments. you give a summation, you explain why your side should either prevail or do well. and it was evident that he had to do something about trump and they never got back to him, by the way, not just late. they set a deadline of wednesday, then thursday and it was clear he wasn t going to commit to this. he wanted to give a campaign speech. and so he shot him down.
nothing at all untoward about the conditions. there was a lot of email traffic here, he rejected trump s request to be a part of closing arguments. let me read you some of the email exchanges between the judge and the attorney for donald trump, sent this morning just before 11:00 a.m. as i have already indicated to you, if mr. trump wishes to speak, you will have to tell me now that he will agree to the limitatis i have imposed, which go without saying and apply to everyone, as you just said. and he will have to agree to do so tomorrow on the record which should take no more than a minute or two. 40 minutes later, the response. this is very unfair, your honor. you are not allowing president trump who has been wrongfully demeaned and belittled by an attorney general to speak about the things that must be spoken about. i won t debate this yet again. take it or leave it now or never. you have until noon, seven minutes from now. i will not grant any further