I don't blame him for not testifying....these jackals were just sitting around ready to pounce on anything he had to say.
Last month, Merchan also issued a ruling cracking down on the topics Trump could discuss if he was to take the stand—though he declared that the other civil cases Trump has been involved in, including E. Jean Carroll’s two defamation cases and a civil fraud case brought by Letitia James, were fair game.
“He made rulings that make it very difficult to testify,” Trump said of Merchan. “Anything I did, anything I did in the past, they can bring everything up, and you know what, I’ve had a great past—but anything.”
Despite initially promising to testify, Trump did appear to walk back his comments on May 2 when he incorrectly claimed that he was “not allowed to testify.”
Merchan clarified the next day in the courtroom: “I want to stress, Mr. Trump, you have an absolute right to testify at trial, if that’s what you decide to do after consultation with your attorneys.”
Days later, Trump said he would “probably” testify in an interview with Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin.
But on WABC Wednesday, his weekly day off from the trial, Trump decried the “rigged judges” and “rigged system” in New York, describing it as a “horror show.”
Trump added: “The other reason is because they have no case. In other words, why would, why testify when they have no case? They finished... They have no crime, there’s no crime.”
He added, “They have no case, its a corrupt system.”
He once again complained of the gag order against him, accusing the White House of being behind a secret plot to take Trump down.
