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Trump Leaves Court and Runs Off to Mar-a-Lago as He Becomes Increasingly Unhinged in NY Fraud Case

He's starting to lose it.

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Just after Trump weaseled his way out of a deposition in his Michael Cohen lawsuit, saying he’d be “too busy” in New York with his fraud trial, Donald Trump has decided it’s all too much. Mar-a-Lago, here he comes.

Trump’s case against Cohen, mostly assumed to be a political stunt to draw attention from the cases against him, leaves him to be deposed by Cohen’s legal team. Cohen told the Political Beatdown podcast that the deposition was supposed to take place on Tuesday.

That date was set back in September.

Trump whined to the judge in the case and had it moved to Sunday the 8th of October, saying that he’d be occupied with the fraud case in Manhattan.

Apparently that all changed, because now it’s exactly one day past when that deposition was originally set for, and he’s on his way home to Florida.

On Wednesday, Trump exited the New York courtroom and did a little display of childish whining and hand-waving, calling Judge Arthur Engoron and NY Attorney General Letitia James “corrupt” and asserting that they had “no case” against him.

Of course, Trump has already been found liable for fraud in one part of this lawsuit.

It’s possible that the former President is just looking to regroup. After all, reports all show him growing more and more frustrated and angry in court, now that his trial has actually begun. Couple that with the fact that Judge Engoron slapped him with a gag order after he slandered Engoron’s principal clerk, and this looks like a Trump that just needs a few rounds of golf and for people to tell him he’s a handsome genius for a few days.

Could it be that the judge in Trump’s case against Cohen will consider Donald’s assertion that he’d be too busy to be deposed a false statement? That could very well be.

Either way, all the people actually being serious in the NY fraud case are more than a little relieved to see him go back to Florida. His presence certainly isn’t required, and with all of the groaning and glaring he’s been doing in the courtroom since Monday, it’s probably a nice reprieve for James and Engoron.

James herself, after Trump’s departure, made a statement essentially to that effect: “I will not be bullied, and so Mr. Trump is no longer here. The Donald Trump show is over. This was nothing more than a political stunt.”

And here is Trump bailing, like the coward that he is:

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