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You can't make this shit up. Maybe the files are at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. LOL.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/files-man-tells-trumps-lawyers-after-subpoena-wrong/story?id=109090579
tgsjktvjxp5
Guy should have downloaded some files from the web, sent them, and shown up at the trial.
bourbonandbaddecisions
“I’m keeping the $15” is my favorite part
cantbelievethisisstillavailable
He did say he loves the poorly educated, and that looks like it extends to his attorneys, too.
TheOtherLucas
well, birds of a feather shit the bed together, I guess.
Daviino
That is the best shit I have seen in a while. He even tried to call them, but the number they had in the letter was disconnected.
Cherry on top was when he wrote 'I'll keep the 15$ tho.', which they send him to send them back the files. Just chefs kiss
SnakesInBowties
"How were we to know? They all look alike." trumps defense attorneys
NotAHugeSpider
shack95
SleepyHollowAppleTree
Only the best.
Chalybos
Totally on brand.
RetrogradeLlama
Hilarious. Keeping the money too. "And another thing Vonnegut: I'm stopping payment on the check!".
ValamirCleaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jow5aO8mp3E
PaleBlueHammer
I laughed, but really nobody expected a NY attorney and his multi-millionaire client to go into their pockets for a whole fifteen bucks, I hope
Suovetaurilia
xizar
Clearly Vonnegut didn't understand his own work. F-material.
trythebleucheese
Jesus, it's like they're not even trying. Oh, they really aren't, are they?
HeHeHebieJeebies
When your entire legal team gets their mail-in diploma's from the Bahamas.
GerbilHereReportingLiveFromRichardGeresAss
If his lawyers are the worst and he's still getting off scot free.... well then. Looks like some country's judicial system is total garbage!
AlabasterMango
Jeremy Rosenberg Total Landscaping
RedRacoon
Idiots or stall tactic? Hard to tell anymore
ItWasAlreadyLikeThatWhenIgotHere
Maybe he’s a landscaper.
dynamojoe
He enjoys all four seasons.
MmmmmSoup
I swear all of this has to be for show to appease the masses because they have so much on him and have done nothing about it
CPTBRUMBL3Z
"$8 million Brooklyn home"
"I'm keeping the $15"
I'm definitely laughing, but if that isn't a perfect analog to our kleptocratic oligarchy of a society IDK WTF is.
CaptCrobar
What a fucking joke that man is.
EllisHobbs
Vergenbuurg
This... is not uncommon, even amongst the largest, most prominent law firms. My office has errantly received numerous law firm requests for documents or for individuals to appear, which have nothing to do with us... My organization unfortunately shares a name with a much larger, broader entity, and they just assume we're them.
JadeNB1729
Yo mama's a much larger, broader entity.
marsilies
Similar company/organization names I can see, but they subpoenaed just, some guy, at his home address. Like, they know multiple people can have the same name, right?
marsilies
Also, when the guy replied "I don't have any files for you," they assumed the guy was being uncooperative, instead of them contacting the wrong guy.
oldguyexlurker
There is an appeal for 'incompetent counsel'. I think they're playing to that to draw the legal process out until after Trump's long dead rom old age.
TheMouseOfMadness
"$8 million home" - We're sorry, but your witness is in another castle
ValamirCleaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HagFQ1RU5_k
xizar
Oh wow. I didn't realize she'd been doing game journalism that long. (or maybe I just don't like what decade it is.)
Gruesslibaer
Pictured: an $8 million home in 2024.
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Gruesslibaer
I was making a joke, not creating a Zillow listing.
ephankrised
This seems like another strategy at delaying
psmith00
TheGlow
One of the rare few to GET money from Trump.
arajad
Nope, just another $15 dollar expense his lawyers will never get reimbursed.
420supercoolusername69
Dude lives in an $8m house and he’s keeping the $15 because you don’t get rich by turning down money.
wingineer
I could have a billion dollars and I'd still be happy to remove $15 from Donald Trump's pockets.
Pheehelm
How common is this sort of error? Are we hearing about it because it's an unusually dumb screwup, or because it's an ordinary screwup in a high-profile case?
Maulbert
It's a REALLY dumb screwup.
mutatedspleen
Maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight, but I don't think it's a screwup. I think it's planting the seeds for a mistrial claim due to incompetent and ineffective counsel.
SomeDetroitGuy
Not unusual but usually it gets corrected quickly unless you have an overworked public defender. If you have a highly paid team, this is inexcusible.
rubypilgrim
the highly paid team member in this case has little to no experience as a defense attorney. Funny as this is, it's probably just another hail mary delay tactic.
kbryant414
'Paid' might be the key term here.
UnknownParticipant67
The Rosenburg that got the subpoena should have replied that he would bring everything he had to court and then showed up with any empty box
whiskycanuck
"I'll meet you in front of the Four Seasons to do the exchange"
JadeNB1729
Anything that could disrupt court proceedings risks contempt of court, I believe. (Source: I have watched legal shows on TV.)
Lexgeddon
I'm waiting for a show where the protagonist gets tackled by the bailiff on the regular for getting too close to the jury box or the judge.
servillo
Only if you’re poor, a woman, or a minority. If you’re Trump you can literally threaten the jury, the judge, and their families and get off with a mild bit of brow furrowing.
PostalHeathen
He gets all the best lawyers, doesn't he?
PirateArrrgument
They're doing exactly what he wants them to do: stall for time while trying to look like they're legitimately working. Trump wants to run out the clock so he can cheat his way back into the presidency and spend the next four years dismantling the system from the inside until he can break enough things to get away with his crimes.
M34665
the best that money can't buy, since he doesn't pay his debts anyway
SheepySleepySmuggler
The lawyers get all giggly when Trump asks if they want paid in free publicity now or free publicity when Trump doesn't pay them later...
ZackWester
I mean there is a diffrence between a lawer fucking making a mistake and this is sort of a honest one but, Trump doing it over and over and over and over again, have they ever done anything correctly except dying in the court room seats/stand?
alt86er
I mean... someone of his caliber will simply *know* whether a lawyer is good or not. Right?
IUpvoteFuturama
I'm assuming the best lawyers wouldn't go into court to try and force compliance against the wrong person.
chaseNC
Remember when that one idiot attorney he had forgot to apply for a jury trial, so it was instead just the judge. How can you screw up that bad on this big of a case?
Thornaxe
Intentional. Foul shit up, claim innocence, ask for extension.
RootyTootyDrunkenShooty
Delay, delay, delay.
iamgnat
This. I suspect they knew exactly what they were doing and this is just another stalling ploy.
darkbacon
No competent lawyer wants to work for someone who does not pay his bills.
SomeDetroitGuy
Defense lawyers work on retainer; i.e., you pay them in advance.
SleepyHollowAppleTree
Also one who can't keep his trash mouth shut.
cuddleskunk
I'm still afraid that there is a strategy here...if all of the lawyers are this incompetent, he'll try to get leeway of some kind due to "ineffective assistance of counsel".
kbryant414
People have failed to prove 'ineffective counsel' in cases where the lawyers were asleep or drunk during the trial. The bar is relatively high, needing to prove that specific mistakes made were unreasonable, and that the trial could have gone differently if the counsel had been competent. Not to say they wouldn't try to invoke it, but it's not an easy tactic to pull off.
cuddleskunk
That's actually reassuring.
Thornaxe
It’s not easy if you’re poor. But for trump? Some appellate judge will probably give him a blowjob on account of it.
kbryant414
Even if successful, it's just another delaying tactic. It doesn't flip the script from guilty to not guilty, it just gives you an avenue to appeal and try again to plead your case (with better counsel). ... I'd love to know if there have ever been trials that used such an egregious number of stalling tactics for good reasons.
Thornaxe
It does flip the script if he makes it past the election.
fformulaa
Delay tactic, again
MeatPopsicleMultiPass
They might try to say they're not ready due to this mistake, but that's on them. Unless Trump gets another break, like the gd break appeals gave him, this shouldn't delay anything.
SomeDetroitGuy
This wouldn't delay anything.
Yellowboy66
Maybe not for anyone else, but based on recent events I wouldn't be surprised if they give him an extra few weeks to try again.
SuperSaiyanYamcha
Even delaying the proceedings by a day (which this does) serves Trump’s legal team. It also costs them nothing because it was an “error” on the part of his lawyers, obviously not something that is routinely double checked and verified by competent lawyers.
mutatedspleen
And it adds weight to an ineffective counsel argument for purposes of mistrial. You absolutely can get a mistrial if your counsel is deemed to fail to meet the minimum standards for competency and diligence.
lljkstonefish
How do you get them to go along with it, assuming they're not actually completely incompetent?
Thornaxe
That’s trumps super power.
SuperSaiyanYamcha
Ask John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark and Jenna Ellis and Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and Kenneth Chesebro and Michael Cohen and Alina Habba and Cleta Mitchell and Ray Smith and Robert Cheeley…..