VERY CREEPY Don Jr. IMPLODES on Witness Stand, Strategy BACKFIRES
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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Don Jr. returns to the witness stand in the civil fraud case here in New York. |
| 0:05.3 | Now how is that happening? How is it that he's called to the stand twice? |
| 0:09.3 | So let's talk about that and talk about how this works and why he will have testified a couple of times. |
| 0:16.5 | The answer is because this is a civil case, not a criminal case, which is very different |
| 0:22.1 | in terms of the rules of who you can call as a witness in your case or not. |
| 0:27.0 | And although he's a defendant, the attorney general is allowed to depose him, as well as his father, his brother, his sister, etc. |
| 0:35.9 | Other witnesses. |
| 0:36.8 | You take depositions in civil cases in New York, not in criminal cases. |
| 0:41.8 | So they've already been deposed and you're allowed to call them in your case in chief so you |
| 0:46.0 | which means they're going to be hostile witnesses because they're defendants but you can cross |
| 0:49.8 | examine them to get information out of them for your direct case. |
| 0:54.6 | Now, the person can take the fifth if they want, |
| 0:57.1 | but then because again, it's a civil case. |
| 0:59.2 | The judge can, it's called an adverse inference against you. |
| 1:03.6 | They can find that, look, that I'm going to infer the worst. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm going to infer that you would have said something negative |
| 1:10.7 | had you testified if you take the fifth. |
| 1:12.8 | So it's just totally different and a little bit bonkers for me |
| 1:16.2 | who came up in the criminal world that you can do that. |
| 1:19.9 | And this is a judge trial, not a jury trial. |
| 1:22.6 | So the judge here, Judge Arthur and Goron, |
| 1:25.7 | is the finder of fact, and he's also the person |
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