she and christy are sitting on the votes of a heavily upscale demographic. haley s challenges that new hampshire may only represent a false dawn, a blip before the primary returns to states with a down scaled demographic, more like iowa. haley may find open new hampshire, but that would only tempered to return home to south carolina and discovered that she is hootie and the blowfish to trump s taylor swift. just to be clear, that is hootie and the blowfish circuit 2023, 1994, when rudy was massive. nikki haley would probably be delighted to have hootie and the blowfish popularity. the reason why chris christie s departure and a sentence in new hampshire matters here is not because of nikki haley is going to sweep the rest of the gop primary states. it is because support for candidates like nikki haley and chris christie can still tell us something about the broader republican electorate. and five days, iowa is going to tell us the actual number of
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part of the defense team s closing argument, but today the judge presiding over this case, judge arthur enron, denied that request and posted his entire email exchange with trump s attorney, chris kise, on the court docket. for those of you who have not read it, it is colorful. judge engoron said he would allow mr. trump to speak but only if trump agreed to several limitations, includin one prohibiting a campgn speech. ump s attorney rejected those limits, calling them untenable and complaining in the most trumpy way imaginable, this is very unfair, your honor. you are not allowing president trump, who has been wrongly demeaned and belittled by an out-of-control politically motivated attorney general, to speak about things that must be spoken about. judge engoron s response, take it or leave it, now or never. you have until noon. seven minutes from now. all caps. i will not grant any further extensions. trump s lawyers did not respond and their client will not be
unconscionable and draconian penalty upper pivoting president trump who is contributed personally and officially to the real estate footprint of new york for some 50 years. i m surprised you didn t mention the crowd size at his inauguration of this email. it was literally trump verbatim. but to your point, there are so many pieces of correspondence that trump can dictate before he won t have any more time left in the day to mount a defense. the other part of this that struck me is that trump cites the death of his mother in law as a bid for an extension on these closing arguments. as you point out, trump is still doing his fox town hall tonight and yet that, the timing of his mother-in-law s death did not affect his ability to participate in that. is trump the kind of person that mourns, in your reporting, to an unusual degree? there is not a lot of evidence to suggest that donald
i ll just read an excerpt, what they outline. they basically say that trump is prone to giving irrelevant speeches, he lacks self control, and is evasive to responding to questions, allow him to speak would invite more speeches, campaign style, that would disrupt the proceedings. i think that nails, that hits the nail on the in terms of while it s dangerous to give trump unfettered access in these court proceedings. does beg the question. this is an instance where the judge can say trump cannot trials. there will be more trials, or at least one or two, and there are going to be a lot more courthouse steps the trump faces. i think the question is, can the judicial system manage this process in a way that it does not become effectively a series of stump speeches for the trump candidacy? i think this is the bigger picture context it s relevant to 2024.