- Donald Trump's antics have characterized his civil trials, including his recent New York fraud trial.
- But Trump will soon face 91 charges across four criminal cases.
- Mr. Trump's lawyers say he needs to be held, according to his former lawyer and the Trump White House.
He goes berserk during the final argument. He answered questions in his deposition with a cheeky rebuttal. Violation of gag order.
It's hard to forget Donald Trump's antics, enraged and disgusted by the “witch hunt” he claimed to be facing during recent civil court proceedings.
In the case involving author E. Jean Carroll, Trump was found guilty of sexually abusing her in the mid-1990s and defaming her by denying it. In two separate lawsuits, juries awarded Carroll a total of $88.3 million in damages. He denied any wrongdoing.
Trump was also fined $454 million in a fraud trial in New York. He denies any wrongdoing.
But Trump's former lawyers told the New York Times that his usual demeanor would not hold up in a criminal trial, or in Trump's case, four criminal trials.
Ty Cobb, a former White House prosecutor who worked in the Trump administration, told the Times: “I'm hopeful that Mr. Trump will take action.” “They need to be aggressively muzzled by their lawyers to avoid offending the jury.”
President Trump faces a total of 91 charges in four criminal cases: the Stormy Daniels hush-money case, the classified documents case, the January 6th Capitol riot case, and the Georgia fake voter case. He has pleaded not guilty to all four charges.
A rapidly approaching hush money lawsuit accuses President Trump of directing his former lawyer Michael Cohen to pay $130,000 to Daniels, a porn actress who claims she had an affair with the former president. Jury selection for the Manhattan trial begins March 25th.
“President Trump and his legal team will continue to fight this Democratic-led witch hunt in the courts and at the polls,” Trump spokesman Stephen Chan told the Times.
Trump is trying to preempt juries in a deep blue city, according to 14 lawyers who have represented or worked with the former president, many of whom spoke anonymously to the Times. There is a danger that it will be postponed.
He and his criminal defense attorneys, Susan R. Necheres and Todd Blanche, must also avoid embarrassing the judge.
But they already appear to have succeeded in doing just the opposite at a February hearing to set a date for the hush money trial. Judge Juan Melchán, who is overseeing the case, urged lawyers to stop citing President Trump's schedule as a reason to delay the trial. Blanche did it anyway.
As Blanche continued to talk about Trump's busy schedule, Marchan said, “Stop interrupting.”
Representatives for Mr. Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider outside of normal business hours.
