Mockery erupts as Trump attorney again asks for mistrial: 'Should be tried as a child'

Donald Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, requested a mistrial for a second time Thursday after adult movie star Stormy Daniels finished testimony in the Manhattan hush money case.

Ahead of the lunch break, Blanche told the judge to expect a motion for a mistrial to be filed at the end of the day.

The news sent legal experts and Trump foes across the internet into howls of laughter — aimed at their sense that they wanted a mistrial after messing up their witness cross-examination.

Trump faces 34 felony counts involving the falsification of business records surrounding money allegedly paid to Daniels' to keep quiet about a sexual tryst.

The cross was pointless, some MSNBC legal analysts said, because Daniels' involvement in the scheme doesn't prove the crime — the falsification of records — occurred.

Some experts even said the defense lawyers attacks resulted in the jurors having a sympathetic opinion of Daniels.

So, when Trump's lawyer said he intended to renew a motion for mistrial, it sent analysts into fits of mockery.

"Our cross-examination was extremely prejudicial to our client!" joked Randall Elison, professor of white-collar crime at G.W. University Law School.

Legal analyst George Conway said that instead of a mistrial motion, "an ineffective-assistance claim would have a better shot."

Pamela Capriotti responded, asking if there could be "a mistrial based on your own ineffectiveness?"

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Another person asked, "Does Blanche realize he can’t get a mistrial just because his team sucks."

Several other non-legal analysts watched the news of the trial unfold. They had their own assessments.

"There's only one reason for a mistrial and that is that Trump should have been tried as a child," @RedfieldBS posted on X.

"Your Honor, my client demands a mistrial and a suspension of the gag-order because he has superior genes, a higher place in the natural order of things, and laws are only supposed to apply to the little people who don't matter!"posted Steve F.

"Are they going to file for a mistrial every court day? Isn’t there a limit to how many times you can make these claims before it’s obviously been proven they’re not made in good faith?" asked Jesse Bee.

"TV commentary needs to tell viewers that Trump's attorneys are asking for a mistrial because they are mad Stormy said things they didn't like, but it's their own fault she was talking about sex in the first place because they claimed that the encounter never happened,"posted @KsKM3.

Trump pleads not guilty to the charges.

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