The New York Attorney General’s office is finally calling out Donald Trump on the desperate Hail Marys his lawyers have heaved toward the heavens at his bank fraud trial, where his team may have actually broken a state record for the number of ridiculous requests for a total victory in court.
“Unlike a fine Bordeaux, defendants’ case for a directed verdict does not improve with age,” AG special counsel Andrew Amer wrote in a court filing on Monday.
While noticeably failing at every turn during the nearly three month trial, the former president’s defense lawyers repeatedly asked the judge for a “directed verdict,” a legal maneuver that declares outright victory and immediately kills the case.

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