Yesterday Trump was complaining the courtroom was freezing. Which of course led to the observation things always feel colder to really old people. But apparently the courtroom isn't so cold it would prevent Trump from taking another nap.


And one of the best things so far about this trial is its a chance for Americans to see the real Trump. About the only times America gets to see Trump its in staged settings where everything very orchestrated to make him bigger than life. But according to exit interviews of prospective jurors who were dismissed they were stuck how Trump was just another guy and not as orange as they thought he was.





'Uncharacteristically messy' Trump seen napping for third time in 4 days: Maggie Haberman

Brad Reed
April 19, 2024 11:26AM ET




NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 19: Former US President Donald Trump sits in a Manhattan Criminal Court for his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments on April 19, 2024 in New York City. Former President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Photo by Curtis Means - Pool/Getty Images)




Eagle-eyed New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman once again caught former President Donald Trump dozing off during a hearing related to his hush-money trial in New York on Friday.

In an update posted to the New York Times' live blog of the proceedings, Haberman wrote that "Trump appears to have fallen asleep in court again," and then added that "it happened several times just now" as "his eyes were closed for extended periods and his head dropped down twice."

Haberman also had some observations about Trump's appearance as he entered court on Friday.

"His hair is uncharacteristically messy," she wrote. "Like the wind hit it on the way into court."

Multiple reporters this week have observed Trump nodding off during his criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records related to his 2016 hush-money payments of adult film star Stormy Daniels.

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Trump's sleeping through an event that could end with him becoming a convicted felon has led to widespread ridicule on the internet all week, as Twitter hashtags such as "#SleepyDon" and "#DonSnoreleone" have trended at various times.

Although Trump appears to be subdued inside the courtroom, his behavior is markedly different outside of it, where he has gone on extended tirades against Judge Juan Merchan, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and even trial witnesses such as former "fixer" Michael Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Trump's trial related to hush-money payments is far from the only legal trouble he faces, and many legal experts have called the other charges that have been leveled against him — including allegedly trying to defraud the United States with a scheme to illegally stay in power and allegedly obstructing government efforts to retrieve top-secret government documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort — as significantly more serious.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sleeps-in-court/

 

Obviously Trump's lawyers should be consulting with his former staff members.

Ex-Trump Aide Details How Staffers Would Keep Former President Awake
Lee Moran
Updated Fri, April 19, 2024 at 6:26 AM MDT·1 min read
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Former Trump White House advisermarosa Manigault Newman on Thursday recalled the measures that fellow aides would take to prevent former President Donald Trump from falling asleep in meetings and ceremonies.

The one-time “Apprentice” contestant-turned-Trump critic explained that because her former boss ― who reportedly preferred intelligence briefings full of pictures ― “cannot focus, nor can he sit still for long,” they would build events “specifically to address his attention deficit.”

“We would break up the events so that he could be stimulated and not fall asleep,” Newman remembered to MSNBC’s Jason Johnson.

“We could slide him different information or news articles that he could read while the long proceedings were going on, anything to keep him focused so that he wouldn’t just get up and walk out,” she added.

Newman suggested Trump will find it difficult, therefore, to sit through his current hush money trial, where proceedings can be “very boring.”

He’s already reportedly fallen asleep in court, she noted.

It is “highly likely” Trump will “blow up” when hearing testimony he doesn’t like, she added, saying the “worst place you can allow Trump to be Trump is in a courtroom.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-trump-aide-details-staffers-071054263.html

 

Well, but wait!
Is Trump still "glaring" at Haberman?
Is the judge going to fine Trump for triggering a reporter?

Next up; Trump drool stains his tie.

TWAT

 

Mary Trump taunts uncle for sleeping in court rumors: ‘Worried narcolepsy runs in the family’
Tara Suter
Sat, April 20, 2024 at 12:39 PM MDT·2 min read
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Mary Trump, former President Trump’s niece, joked that she’s concerned narcolepsy runs in the family after rumors of her uncle falling asleep in court this week came to light.

The former president seemed to doze off during his first day of the New York hush money criminal trial. The New York Times’Maggie Haberman reported Monday that the former president “appeared to nod off a few times” amid a court appearance, “his mouth going slack and his head drooping onto his chest.”

“I’m a little worried that narcolepsy runs in the family,” Trump said on “The Dean Obeidallah Show” on SiriusXM Wednesday, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.


Trump said that she thinks that “we can’t underestimate the extent of the depth of the narcissistic injury” her uncle is “suffering” amid the trial.

“One, he’s in a situation in which has no control, and worse, he is under the control of somebody else,” Trump continued. “There is somebody else in that room with all of the authority, and he has none. So, that’s already problematic for him.”

The hush money trial began Monday, marking the first criminal trial of an American president. The former president has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in relation to reimbursements to his former attorney, Michael Cohen, who paid an adult film actor $130,000 prior to the 2016 election to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Trump, which he denies.

Following the second day of jury selection in his trial, the former president referred to the reimbursements as a “legal expense,” putting some blame on his accountants.

“I was paying a lawyer, and we marked it down as a legal expense — some accountant. I didn’t know,” Trump told reporters. “Mark it down as a legal expense. That’s exactly what it was. And you get indicted over that?


https://www.yahoo.com/news/mary-trump-taunts-uncle-sleeping-183949849.html

 

This makes sense if you stop and think about it. Due to Trump's FORMS of mental illness his brain bounces like a pinball always jumping from one thing to the next often not even being able to complete a sentence. That keeps Trump in kind of a constant manic phase where he never has to focus on concentrate on any one thing for more than a few minutes at a time. In fact when Trump was president his staff had to craft everything including intelligence briefings around that.

But the opposite is also true. When Trump gets put in an envionment like court and he can't bounce around and mve from one thing to the next doing whatever he wants his brain just shuts down and he falls asleep. And it might be getting worse. According to previous reports Trump could catch himself dozing off. But in this case his lawyer had to wake him up.





Trump's lawyer 'nudged' him awake after he dozes off again in court: report

Sarah K. Burris
April 22, 2024 11:34AM ET




Flanked by attorneys, former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in the courtroom for an arraignment proceeding at Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in New York City. - Seth Wenig/Getty Images North America/TNS




It's the official first day of the court proceedings for Donald Trump's trial over the hush money scheme, and within the first opening statements, he reportedly fell asleep yet again.

It's the fourth time Trump has been seen to doze off during the case, withn the first several times during jury selection last week.

According to New York Times reporter Susanne Craig who is in the courtroom, "Trump is struggling to stay awake. His eyes were closed for a short period. He was jolted awake when Todd Blanche, his lawyer, nudged him while sliding a note in front of him."

The moment was during the opening statements given by the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

Several reporters have commented in past days that they witnessed Trump dozing during the trial.

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The first time that it happened, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported the story — and Trump then glared at her while leaving the courtroom.

It could become a political problem for Trump, who has long nicknamed Joe Biden "sleepy Joe."

Trump is reportedly furious that his naps are being noticed.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fell-asleep-first-day/

 

The US deserves a younger better leader not the two who are standing. They have not declared the VP contender I hope he is younger because I think he may have to take over if the winner dies or becomes completely incompetent.

 

During WW11 Germany had a leader who was asleep on 6th June 1944 and everyone was afraid to wake him So the Panzer reserves were not released and D-DAY was a success.What will happen if Trump fall's asleep at Defcon 1

 

Just more Democratic liberal propaganda. Please stay in England.

 

Out of the slime the despicables have slithered into in their mission of getting trump comes the latest broadside on him.

He sleeps in court.

And as blatantly stupid and ridiculous it is, they will spew it from their slime coated mouths until new orders issue from headquarters.

It would be fun to expose their lies but they'd only make more. And besides its fun to see how much lower they'll go if left to their delusions.

 

It helps to keep in mind for this trial they have a whole separate press overflow room to accommodate all the reporters covering the trial. And since they are not in the courtroom they have a little more leeway than the reporters in the courtroom. And one the things they help entertain themselves with is to see if Trump is going to go to sleep again. So a buzz went up in the room when he nodded off and it changed to laughter when they saw Trump's lawyer have to nudge him a couple times to wake him up again.




Snoozy Trump Wakes Up as Prosecutor Calls Him a Liar
Justin Rohrlich
Mon, April 22, 2024 at 9:58 AM MDT·7 min read
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Opening statements had not yet begun on Monday when former President Donald Trump dozed off for the first time.

He quickly opened his eyes when defense attorney Todd Blanche slid him a note, as prosecutors prepared to kick off opening arguments in the historic trial, which hinges on accusations that the former president falsified business records over a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in an effort to keep her quiet as the 2016 presidential election loomed.




The trial marks the only time in American history that a former commander-in-chief has been tried on criminal charges. If convicted, Trump faces four years behind bars.

“You must decide this case on the evidence,” Judge Juan Merchan instructed the jury.

Trump’s eyes appeared to close again as Merchan continued laying out the ground rules to the five women and seven men from various parts of Manhattan who were seated as jurors last week, along with six alternates who were also present in the jury box.

The first day of proceedings gave both sides an opportunity to offer their initial arguments to the jury, who paid rapt attention even as the 45th president looked as if he’d rather be anywhere else. Prosecutors called their first witness, former tabloid king leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom" data-wf-reset-every="90">David Pecker, who took the stand to describe how “checkbook journalism” worked in this case.The session ended early, at 12:30 p.m. rather than the usual 4:30, because one of the jurors had been suffering from a toothache that required an emergency visit to the dentist, Merchan announced at the outset.

Reporters were under strict instructions from Merchan not to be too descriptive about the members of the jury, so as not to make them easily identifiable to the public and to protect their safety outside the courtroom.



Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo kicked off opening arguments, laying out the prosecution’s case against Trump, accusing him of orchestrating a “criminal scheme” that would “corrupt” the 2016 election.

“This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover-up ,” Colangelo said, arguing that he lied “over and over again.”

He said Trump, Cohen, and National Enquirer boss Pecker “formed a conspiracy” to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claimed she had a one-night stand with the married Trump, and ensure voters never found out about their alleged affair, as well as another alleged affair with a Playboy model, as well as an embarrassing story about a Trump Tower doorman who had a love child with his maid.

“All in all, the defendant disguised his reimbursements to Michael Cohen” by way of falsified checks and ledger entries that amounted to “a criminal scheme,” Colangelo argued.

“Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again,” Colangelo said as Trump, no longer dozing off, stared straight ahead.

Trump also launched a conspiracy with Pecker, who took direction from Trump to bury negative stories about him while slamming his opponents, including Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who was also vying for the GOP presidential nomination at the time, according to the prosecutor.

This, Colangelo told the jury, “is called catch-and-kill.”

“Trump and Pecker and Cohen carried out three different catch-and-kill deals to help him get elected,” said Colangelo.

The schemes involved “the candidate’s fixer actively colluding with a media enterprise… to keep [negative information] from coming out before the election.”

First, Colangelo said, Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajudin had a love child with his maid, and directed Pecker to pay $30,000 to keep quiet about it. The second allegedly involved Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal and Pecker’s $150,000 payment in September 2016 for her story of having an affair with Trump, who was married at the time, locking up the rights and ensuring the tale never saw the light of day. Trump “desperately did not want this information about Karen McDougal to become public because he was concerned about the election,” Colangelo went on.

But Trump was slow in paying the money back to Pecker, who “became frustrated” and began to believe he’d never get his money back, Colangelo said. So, to prove his boss’ good intent, Colangelo said Cohen recorded himself speaking to Trump about the scheme. Trump said on the tape, which the jury will hear at trial, that he would set up a shell company to pay Pecker back for “advisory services,” according to Colangelo.

Colangelo then brought up the infamous “hot mic” moment that depicted Trump “bragging about sexual assault.”

“When you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump was heard saying. “You can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

It was released one month before election day, causing an “immediate and explosive” reaction from allies, prompting the Republican National Committee to explore the possibility of replacing Trump as a candidate.

A day after the damaging tape came out, the National Enquirer’s editor-in-chief told Pecker that Daniels had come forward with a story about an affair she claimed to have had with Trump. According to Colangelo, Trump convinced Cohen to use his own money to “keep Stormy Daniels quiet” just two weeks before the 2016 presidential election.

Trump then repaid Cohen after he took the Oval Office, cooking his books to hide any wrongdoing, said Colangelo. It was, he said, “a grossed up way” to disguise the payment, Colangelo said.

He then admitted that Cohen “has made mistakes in the past.” He lied about the payments “to protect his boss,” and went to prison for it, warming the jury up to the idea of hearing from a convicted felon as a witness.

“Focus on the facts,” Colangelo continued. “Focus on the logical inferences that follow from those facts… Donald Trump is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying busines records in the first degree.”

When Blanche took over and addressed the jury, he started, “President Trump is innocent. President Trump did not commit any crimes.”

Trump fixed his gaze on Blanche as the defense attorney repeated his client’s familiar talking point that the case should never have been brought and insisted the former president is “cloaked in innocence.” He told the jurors that Trump is, “in some ways, larger than life,” noting that “he has earned” the title of “president,” and he would be calling him that in court “out of respect for the office he held from 2017 to 2021.”

“He’s not just our former president, he’s not just the Donald Trump you’ve seen on TV and read about. He’s also a man, he’s a husband, he’s a father. He is a person just like you and just like me.”

Blanche then argued to the jury, “The story you just heard is not true.”

He said the payments from Trump to Cohen which make up the 34 criminal counts “are really just 34 pieces of paper.” Blanche claimed that Trump was merely paying a retainer to Cohen, and that this was not a crime.

“You’re going to learn that this was not a payback,” Blanche said. “... Listen, the ‘ledger’ was just a fancy way of… keeping track of what you’re spending money on.”

Trump, according to Blanche, “is not responsible for something Mr. Cohen may have done.”

“They put something sinister on this idea, as if it was a crime,” Blanche went on.

Shortly after noon, Pecker took the stand as the trial’s first witness. He gave his age as 72, said he has a bachelor’s degree from Pace University, and that he is now self-employed. “My previous employer was American Media, AMI,” he said.

In response to questioning by ADA Joshua Steinglass, Pecker described himself as the company’s former chairman, president, and CEO. He said he gave editors up to $10,000 to spend on a story, admitting it was “checkbook journalism.” If anyone wanted to spend more than that, the request had to go through him, Pecker said. He also explained that he had “final say” over the conglomerate’s coverage, particularly with celebrity stories.

Pecker, who was subpoenaed to testify on Monday, had two AMI email addresses, he said—one for regular correspondence, and one for “sensitive” issues. Steinglass brought up Dylan Howard, asking Pecker if he knew him. Yes, Pecker replied. Trump stared straight at Pecker during his testimony; Pecker directed his answers to Steinglass and to the jury and did not appear to look at Trump at all.

The trial will begin its second day on Tuesday, beginning at 9:30 a.m.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/snoozy-trump-wakes-prosecutor-paints-155813689.html

 

Pity in was not shown on TV so all people could see justice done to find him guilty or not guilty

 

I so totally agree. The vast majority of Americans only see Trump in carefully staged and choreographed settings specifically designed to make him look bigger than life. It would be a huge benefit for the nation for Americans to see Trump sitting in court just a frightened, tired, old man. It might help to break his cult spell.

 

Good.
We all agree. Televise the trial.
Much better than having to plow through endless posts about trump farting and sleeping.

We'll get to see the important stuff instead of some leftist pundit spew.

 

I agree as well. Sure wish we could watch this historic trial.

 

Psst…I Think the President Is Totally Senile.


Look, I don’t want to shock you, but I think that our alleged President is senile. Really. Hear me out. Now look, I understand that the regime media teaches that he is a vigorous go-getter taking the lead on important issues and making America safer, more prosperous, and more equitable, but I’m concerned, folks. Maybe I’m off base, but I’m having doubts. I think the evidence is increasingly clear that he’s a senile old pervert who showered with his daughter, as well as a neo-communist serial liar whose inability to tell the truth is matched only by his grubby corruption. Other than that, he’s fine.


And I am glad he’s the Democrat nominee for President. I believe he’s going to hold onto that office with his bony claws right up through election day. And I think he has a substantial chance of losing to Donald Trump. I didn’t use to, but I’m happy to say America is waking up. Voters can’t ignore Grandpa Badfinger’s failures and foolishness any longer.

The people purportedly helping him are actually hurting him, which is great to watch. I particularly loved when he decided to tell the world that cannibals consumed Uncle Bosie. Now, let me say that again because I want to ensure you got it. The alleged President of the United States looked at the camera and told America that cannibals ate his uncle.


Cannibals did not eat his uncle.


And you would think that this bizarre lie about his uncle being an hors d’oeuvre would’ve been enough, but in the same series of incoherent sentences, he also managed to confuse Pearl Harbor with D-Day, get the day of the week wrong, and draw in Beau Biden’s death, which now occurred in action in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or wherever else it is useful for him to claim it happened. At least he left out his classic lie that the other driver in the accident that killed his first wife was drunk. This milking the death of relatives thing has become a habit.

He told this particular set of lies in the course of slandering Trump about the troops. Honest Joe was reviving that old “losers and suckers” lie that all of us veterans recognize as a lie. Joe Biden’s not a veteran. That’s because of another lie. Whatever happened to that asthma that kept our Commander-in-Crusty out of ‘Nam anyway? Was a stammer enough to get a deferment, too?


There I go, picking on him because of his stammer. Oh, and his senility, lies, corruption, and perversion, but yeah, also his stammer.

And then his handlers had him stagger into a gas station to show how Scranton Joe is a real person who knows how to interact with real people. We saw a bunch of citizens who didn’t even feel obligated to stand up in the presence of the President. That’s the kind of aura of leadership we want – local yokels shrugging at the shuffling zombie coming in for a quick photo op with the swing state rubes before heading back out to the Delaware beach house he bought with Chinese bribes. He didn’t bring Hunter with him, which is probably good because somebody might’ve accidentally got him filching coins out of the take a penny, leave a penny tray. Of course, had that happened, the regime media would not have run it. They did not run the story of Hunter’s perversion-ridden, corruption-filled laptop because that was allegedly Russian disinformation. The First Failson’s peccadillos, of course, are the fault of Putin for reasons, and shut up because you’re a transphobe.

They covered for Joe on Cannibalgate as well. Hilariously, the story about his bizarre I-tied-an-onion-to-my-belt-which-was-the-style-at-the-time ramblings was headlined “Biden is off on details of his uncle’s WWII death as he calls Trump unfit to lead the military.” Falsely claiming that your uncle goy tossed into a boiling pot and consumed by local tribesmen is not messing up some minor detail. Saying something happened in the late morning rather than the early afternoon is a minor detail. Asserting that Dahmerriffic individuals with bones through their noses munched on Uncle Bosie is a major detail. Now, we all appreciate the service of Uncle Bosie, even though he wasn’t the super jet pilot war hero Biden pretends he was to burnish Joe’s own pathetic reputation, but cannibals didn’t eat him, and whatever glory accrues to him does not transfer to his nitwit nephew.

I’m laughing at all the Democrat politicians taking a look at all the polls which show Donald Trump ahead in the battleground states. If you recall, Trump has never been consistently ahead before. He wasn’t ahead in 2016 consistently, and he was barely ever even in any poll in 2020. But now he is, consistently, and they’ve got to be scared. They’ve got to be especially terrified because of the tendency of people to hide their support for Donald Trump. The silent Trumpers are a real threat. Now, a sane party would somehow get rid of the desiccated zombie they have nominated, but the one smart thing Joe Biden never did was take out the greatest insurance policy any politician ever had – Kamala Harris. She’s even more despised than he is, though she’s about as coherent.

Much of the talk about how he will be shuffled off stage and somebody else will be slipped in to bring in the big win is all just magical thinking. It’s Biden. They bought that ticket to ride and they’re riding it to the end of the line.


I did something no one’s ever done with Joe Biden, which is underestimate him. I underestimated his amazing power to fail. He has failed at everything. The economy is a disaster. You can’t go to McDonald’s, order two Big Macs, a large fries, and a small Diet Coke, and walk out without paying 30 bucks. Hell, try and buy a house. America’s a foreign policy joke. Biden attacks our allies and defends our enemies. And remember that pier he was going to build to feed the terrorists in Gaza? That doesn’t appear likely to happen, not because he suddenly realized how stupid the idea was, but because the Navy ships he sent there either broke down or caught fire.

This guy is a disaster, a catastrophe, a walking, whisper-talking clusterfark, and the Democrats own him. He’s all theirs. He’s not going anywhere. They nominated him, and now they’ve got to deal with it. The bogus kangaroo court conviction that Donald Trump is facing in New York is not going to save Biden – can you imagine somebody at this point thinking, “Well, a jury of New York liberals and a judge whose daughter works for the Democrats convicted Trump of something I can’t quite explain so I’m going to accept inflation and national humiliation in order to re-elect Joe Biden?” Nope.


This guy is going down, and I don’t mean tumbling down the stairs of Air Force One, but you know that’s in the cards, too.


Kurt Schlichter

Apr 22, 2024

 

You might call it spew, even I got tired of the endless rehash, but I'm glad to read that you're paying attention to the "leftist pundits".

 

Look at the headline, who did the copyN paste, maybe the media outlet it was taken from, scroll on by.