He testified for under three minutes. But former President Donald Trump still broke a judge’s rules on what he could tell a jury about writer E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault and defamation allegations, and he left the courtroom Thursday bristling to the spectators: “This is not America.”

Testifying in his own defense in the defamation trial, Trump didn’t look at the jury during his short, heavily negotiated stint on the witness stand. Because of the complex legal context of the case, the judge limited his lawyers to asking a handful of short questions, each of which could be answered yes or no — such as whether he’d made his negative statements in response to an accusation and didn’t intend anyone to harm Carroll.

But Trump nudged past those limits.

  • @[email protected]
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    2910 months ago

    Love how the artist makes him look like Steve Ditko’s version of Hammerhead from the old Spider-Man comics lol.

    • BigFig
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      1110 months ago

      I think he looks like the cat meme

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          510 months ago

          Yeah realized that later

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        510 months ago

        Grumpy cat or broccoli cat? I expect the latter but I can’t see it with his mouth closed. Come to think of it, he doesn’t look like Trump with his mouth shut.

        • BigFig
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          510 months ago

          The broccoli cat

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      1010 months ago

      Except Hammerhead had amazingly shiny and strong hair, this drawing shows Donny’s thin and weak hair in the style of Hammerhead but too weak to hold up against a weak wind without hair gel.