Trump Reaches The Point Of No Return After Damaging Day In Court

Donald Trump is now claiming that the gag order blocks him from testifying, which is a sign that even he thinks he can't save this trial.

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Things Are Going Badly For Trump In Manhattan

Remember how Trump promised the country that he was ready to testify at the hush money/election interference trial? Trump promised he was going to take the stand and expose this trial for what he claimed it was.

That was so last week.

This is what Trump said when he was asked about testifying after court ended on Thursday:

Well, I'm not allowed to testify. I'm under a gag order. I guess, right? I can't even testify at all. No, we're gonna be appealing the gag order. Answer that question. It's a very easy question. The easiest question so far. But, uh, testify, because this judge, who's totally conflicted, has me under an unconstitutional gag order.

Nobody's ever had that before. And we don't like it, and it's not fair. Other people are allowed to do whatever they want to us, and I'm not allowed as a presidential candidate. The leading candidate, the Republican Party, who's leading Biden by a lot, I'm not, uh, there's never been any abuse like this before.

This conflicted judge ought to get out of this case. He shouldn't be, he should not be having this case. He gives us nothing. It's such a rigged court. So I'm not allowed to testify because of an unconstitutional gag order. We're appealing the gag order. Let's see what happens.

The gag order does not prevent Trump from testifying. Either Trump does not know how gag orders work, which is hard to believe because he has been slapped with enough of them that he should be an expert by now, or he is looking to get out of his promise to testify.

If you picked option two, you have obviously heard Donald Trump speak at some point in the last decade.

Things are going badly for Trump in court. The prosecution is telling a story with the evidence being presented of a criminal conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election, and this is a landscape that has sent Trump heading for the hills.