• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I followed everyday of the trial. Denying literally everything was central to the defenses strategy.

    Here is a good NYT breakdown of it, but also, like everyday it was the same thing in the trial.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240531020231/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opinion/trump-trial-defense.html

    and the key quote:

    The defense lost a winnable case by adopting an ill-advised strategy that was right out of Mr. Trump’s playbook. For years, he denied everything and attacked anyone who dared to take him on. It worked — until this case.

    I mean they denied the affair with Stormy Daniels. They denied several, easily provable things. If they would have just ‘admitted’ a few of those things, but strongly denied any Trump knowledge of wrongdoing, they probably could have won: It was a criminal who objectively hates Trump that was needed to make that connection.

    Instead the defense denied everything. Even the provable stuff. After that it was just personal attacks. I mean look how the defense took on cross with Cohen. They made it about them. It was a disastrous approach.