{"id":22916,"date":"2023-03-30T23:49:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=22916"},"modified":"2023-03-30T23:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:49:56","slug":"pound-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=22916","title":{"rendered":"pound the table&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"892\" height=\"990\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/pound-the-table-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/pound-the-table-copy.jpg 892w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/pound-the-table-copy-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/pound-the-table-copy-768x852.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A lawyer for Donald Trump says the former president has been&nbsp;informed that he\u2019s been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with adult film star Stormy Daniels.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Donald was seen pounding the table and was joined by his lawyers,family members and allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>There&#8217;s an old legal aphorism that goes, &#8220;If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side,&nbsp;<strong>pound the table<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Court-Painter-Donalds-table-poundingpxm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Court-Painter-Donalds-table-poundingpxm.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Court-Painter-Donalds-table-poundingpxm-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Court-Painter-Donalds-table-poundingpxm-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawyer for Donald Trump says the former president has been&nbsp;informed that he\u2019s been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter with adult film star Stormy Daniels.&nbsp; The Donald was seen pounding the table and was joined by his lawyers,family &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=22916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;pound the table&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22916"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22924,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22916\/revisions\/22924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}