Source:CNN ex-Defendant Don criminal lawyer Tim Parlatore, talking about his former client.

Source:The New Democrat

“A Former TRUMP CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY believes that Trump’s tactic of having MAGA politicians come to court and show support for him and bash the witnesses and judge and criminal justice system IS HAVING A TERRIBLY NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE JURY, and could backfire and help lead to a GUILTY VERDICT. Michael Popok a practicing NY trial lawyer explains what is likely going on in the minds of the jurors who have rallied around the judge.”

From the Meidas Touch

As I wrote about Donald Trump’s MAGA support at his trial last week, instead of his family support:

“As far as Senate MAGA, (as I call Senate MAGA Republicans) other than Crazy Marge, also known as Moscow Marge, (who some people call Marjorie Taylor Greene) these senators are the only Republican members of Congress to show any official support for their Dear Leader Defendant Don, at the Manhattan courthouse. I guess Speaker Mike Johnson made a half-ass (to be be frank) appearance for Defendant Don today. But he didn’t actually go into the courtroom itself.

If all of us are the people we associate with, Donald J. Trump is getting exactly who he deserves and is exactly who he deserves to be. Which is a man whose surrounded by professional boot-lickers, who are simply trying to get something from him and raise their profiles.”

From The New Democrat

Just to give you a little background about Tim Parlatore first and sort of add on to what Michael Popok already said about him: Parlatore is still loyal to Donald J. Trump. But not to the point that he’s willing to risk his own credibility as a lawyer, at least not with the mainstream media, or his legal license. Which is why CNN, perhaps MSNBC, and perhaps the network news divisions are willing to talk to him because he tells them what he thinks.

I agree with Michael Popok that having these MAGA, Donald J. Trump wannabes and Congressional MAGA cultists from both the House and Senate up there to essentially say: “We got you, man! We’re down for you 100%!” probably doesn’t look good to this jury. I mean this is a Manhattan jury, Donald J. Trump might actually have to pay someone (even if he couldn’t afford it) to support him in Manhattan.

And again, this is a Manhattan jury, this idea that they’re just hearing about their fellow Manhattanite Donald J. Trump, or even his MAGA movement, or the Republican Party for that matter, for the very first time, makes as much sense as someone saying that if you jump in the lake, there’s a chance you might not get wet. So in a heavily, wealthy, highly educated, Democratic jurisdiction like Manhattan, it’s safe to assume that they know who these MAGA people are and what they’re about.

But as someone whose not a real lawyer, I think there’s a bigger problem for Donald J. Trump relating to this jury. While MAGA has his back, his family apparently doesn’t. I mean if your own wife and kids don’t even support you, how can you expect 12 complete strangers to believe that you are innocent. Yes, they’ve made a few outside guest appearances for their father and father-in-law.

But if I was married, (God forbid) and my wife or father was on trial for their personal freedom and I believed she or he were innocent, I would be in court everyday for them. That’s not what you are seeing from the Trump Family for their father, husband, and father-in-law.