Lying Trump Claims He Wasn't Allowed To Speak At Assault Trial

Donald Trump hit a new low on Tuesday right before the jury was set to begin deliberations in the E. Jean Carroll assault trial. On Truth Social, the twice-impeached former President falsely claimed that he was forbidden from speaking and from defending himself in the trial, which is a flagrant lie as he was given multiple opportunities to do both. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what actually happened and why Trump is telling such a blatant lie.

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Before the jury verdict was handed down yesterday, Donald Trump got on truth social and decided to lie about what actually happened in that case. Here's what he put on truth social, he said, waiting for a jury decision on a false accusation where I, despite being a current political candidate and leading all others in both parties, am not allowed to speak or defend myself even as hard-nosed reporters scream questions about this case at me. In the meantime, the other side has a book falsely accusing me of rape and is working with the press. Okay? Eugene Carroll's definitely not working with the press. Um, but his claim right there, I was not allowed to speak. I was not allowed to defend myself. That is an absolute verifiable lie, and I knew that Donald Trump was going to say that. I mentioned in a video clip, I believe it was on the other channel, but that the reason Donald Trump declined to show up even after Judge Kaplan decided to extend the calendar, gave Donald Trump till 5:00 PM on Sunday to determine whether or not he was gonna come and confront his accuser. As he said over in Ireland last week, he chose not to do it, but I said he would still claim he wasn't allowed to do it, and that is exactly what has now happened.

He knew that his base will believe whatever he tells them, even if they had all of the facts, because it was not some secret knowledge that Donald Trump was given the extra time to decide to come and testify. Okay? It's not like only five or six of us in this country knew that was happening and we were keeping it to ourselves. It was national news. Donald Trump's statements from Ireland where he said, I am going to do this. We're on the national news, but he still comes back to the United States, refuses that offer to come and testify, and then has the audacity to lie to the public saying, I didn't have the chance to defend myself. Not only were you given the extra time at the end, but you had two weeks before that where you could have shown up to court. Hell, you didn't even have to testify.

You could have just shown up, but you didn't even do that. Your lawyer, Joe Taina, made it very clear to Judge Kaplan last Tuesday or Wednesday, I think it was said. I'm not calling Trump to testify, I'm not calling any witnesses to testify. You had your chance to do this, but his idiotic base, they're gonna take him at his word and think, well, he was silenced. They didn't let him talk in the trial. He didn't go to the trial. As far as I know, he was never in the same city when the trial was happening. He was gallivanting all around the, all around the globe, really doing whatever the hell he wanted because he didn't think he was ever gonna

Face accountability. When Donald Trump attempts to appeal this ruling, that is going to be his argument. That's why by the way, he set that up yesterday in this post on truth social. He's already trying to lay the groundwork of I wasn't allowed to speak, and if that is his legal defense upon his appeal, he has no case and it's going to be laughed out of court because even if his supporters don't understand what happened, the judicial system does, they will know that Donald Trump was given every possible opportunity and then some to come and testify. So if he puts this nonsense into his appeal, which he's pretty much already made it clear he is going to, that he's not just gonna lose, but he's probably gonna be laughed out of court.