Take a real shock, not a made up one. Trump is a target rich environment like for example, dont do this all this tough talk on china, never occurred to my predecessor to do that. Trump doesnt get it. Why is he always squinting . Is Donald Trump Foldable on china . Are you referring to trump giving china a pass when he called it China Virus or record tariffs on the goods you left in Place Or Band while weight because it was too much of a threat to us . Or massive phase one Trade Deal . That to me was a swing. What else you got . Trump Cant Campaign right now. You are on the trail by yourself, go for it. We know the best way in the middle out, bottom up, not a topdown. When i look at the economy, i
the judge engoron made this offer. he said, you can speak on your own behalf with this closing argument if you follow these rules, that was ignored. and then it was back on the table in the courtroom yesterday? the offer was not put on the table of formatively by judge engoron, but it was trump s lawyer, who at the end of each of the presentations by the three trump lawyers, renewed that request. you will remember that the trump lawyers ignored the last offer by judge engoron who said, essentially, having failed to meet my third extended deadline, i will take that as a no. nonetheless, it renewed the request and that is when judge engoron asked a former president trump could comply. just two conditions, could you stick to the facts and the law? as noted, former president trump immediately began to speak in the guise of answering the question, basically saying, i couldn t accept you conditions, and here is why, and then proceeded to deliver exactly the speech he would have wanted to.
president of the united states, and that s who is running against. he talks about world war ii, he makes these bizarre gaffes when he s really tired. are republicans gonna put in the general election a guys debated in months in primary season? that is the thing, you go back to october 2020. that first trump biden debate when donald trump was the incumbent president, and biden beat him in the debate pretty soundly. we ve been a situation where we ve got three for years down the road, clearly donald trump is not the same trump from 2016. when he gets off the teleprompter there s a lot of mistakes, stream of consciousness stuff. just from a position of okay you, want to battle-tested candidate, you want someone you know who s gonna be able to handle, donald trump we have no idea how s gonna do in a debate setting. they made a strategic judgment that he is way more to lose by debating.
allowed to speak briefly during part of the presentation by his lawyers. the judge asked trump directly if he would quote, promised to just comment on the facts of the law. but naturally, trump ignored him. immediately looking into a five minute rant that broke every one of the judges rules, claiming that he was a innocent man who has been politically prosecuted. the judge called for trump s attorney to control his client before cutting trump off for a scheduled lunch break. the state a.g. is seeking 300 and $70 million in fines and to bar trump from the new york real estate industry. the judge says he hopes to have a decision by january 31st. he is deciding the case because state law does not allow for the juries in this type of lawsuit. joining us now, former litigator and msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin. she was inside the courtroom yesterday. lisa, you are there, you saw and heard this exchange. we should go back a little bit,
i had about a half a dozen left when plants, including people that rushed the stage when i was up there. which is fine, we roll with the punches. i don t think there is many critical questions. incidentally, we have debate in iowa at the same time he was invited he could have gone, he just hasn t done any debates yet. he knows he can get away with that type of gaslighting in that venue. he knew he wouldn t be able to get away with it when we are on the debate. here is the thing, he was breaking in 2020 that he shut down the greatest economy in the world. he used to say he saved millions of lives to do that. now we know s republican voters think that was a mistake. but he cannot admit that he made a mistake. i think as a leader, if something doesn t work you course correct. voters appreciate, it is a refreshing when you acknowledge that you got something wrong. donald trump just cannot do that. i m curious, do you think donald trump is up to did baiting? here s a guy that repeatedly t