Judge Engoron Made the Right Call: Let Trump Rant and Rave

Former President Trump’s testimony today in the Manhattan courtroom of Judge Arthur Engoron was not the first time an ex-President has taken the witness stand. In 1915, President Theodore Roosevelt testified on his own behalf in a libel trial arising from statements he had made about a Republican state party chairman.

Like Trump today, Roosevelt was a former President who still sought to hold onto his political influence and, like Trump, Roosevelt was combative on the witness stand with the lawyer who questioned him, at one point “half rising from his seat and shaking his fist.”

But that’s where the similarity ends—because Roosevelt and his lawyers were defending him in a court case, not attacking the judicial system itself.

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