So, you really are as closed minded as we figured. Yep, call it spew and scroll on by.

 

Back in line before you lose your place.

 

So now Trump's lawyers aren't even bothering to try and wake him up again. They are just letting the poor old guy sleep. And Trump has been complaining the courtroom if freezing so they might wast to considered laying a folded blanket across his lap.



Trump takes 'bonafide nap' as his 'dull' lawyer bores hush money jury: analyst

Kathleen Culliton
April 26, 2024 11:00AM ET




Former President Donald Trump (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)




Donald Trump took a "bonafide nap" Friday as his attorney managed to bore the jury in a criminal trial tied to the former president's alleged payment of hush money to an adult movie star, a legal analyst said from inside the courtroom.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman reported from his front-row seat in Trump's Manhattan criminal court trial that neither the former president nor the jurors appeared titillated by attorney Emil Bove's cross-examination of ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.

"Now more like bonafide nap by Trump," Litman reported. " And jury listening but hardly rapt."



Litman praised Bove's technique, but argued his conversation with Pecker — the tabloid executive who prosecutors contend helped Trump catch-and-kill salacious stories about alleged sexual relationships — was "inherently pretty dull."

Tempo also proved a problem for Bove, according to Litman.

"Overall moving slowly," Litman said. "Certainly not making big inroads on the direct."

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why Trump’s Manhattan trial is the biggest threat to his freedom

That may be why Litman noted three times in less than 45 minutes that the former president was sleeping.

"Trump heavy-lidded, seems to be dozing off," Litman reported on X at 10:03 a.m.

"Asleep for several minutes," he added at 10:19 a.m.

"Again asleep, b/t his two main lawyers," Litman wrote at 10:47 a.m. "In other cases, even w/ big-shot [defendants], the lawyers would rouse their clients. Not here."

This is the first of four criminal court cases Trump faces, but it is not the first time Trump was caught sleeping in court.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman caught him sleeping last week during jury selection, spurring him to lash out in a rant directed at "Maggot Hagerman."

Litman's nap time report from the trial — in which Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — spurred much mockery on social media.

"Hopefully," quipped X user Daniel, "he’ll prove that if you snooze you lose."


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Trump lawyers are taking shifts to keep him awake in courtroom: legal analysts

Kathleen Culliton
April 26, 2024 2:34PM ET




Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears with his legal team Todd Blanche (L) ahead of the start of jury selection at Manhattan criminal court on April 15, 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. (Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images)




Former President Donald Trump's lawyers have a new way to keep their sleepy client awake in court, according a legal analyst sitting in on the trial.

" Trump walks in every day with a big stack of papers that appear to be news articles carefully culled for his own reading," MSNBC analyst Lisa Rubin said Friday. "Reading his good press is keeping him at least more energized."

The other tactic has Trump's lawyers playing musical chairs in the courtroom, Rubin said.

"He is always accompanied by one of his lawyers directly adjacent to him now when they go to these long and extensive sidebars," Rubin said.

"The strategy is twofold. One, to make sure he always has company and doesn't seem sort of diminished by his solitariness, and the second goal is to keep him awake."

"They actually shuffle over to make sure there's someone sitting next to him," added journalist Susanne Craig.

MSNBC Chris Jansing appeared baffled by Rubin's report and interrupted to clarify.

"I just want to clarify that point," Jansing said. "A lawyer will actually change seats to be sitting next to Donald Trump when the others may have gone up to the bench?"

Rubin's answer was a resounding yes.

"That's absolutely true," she said.

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Rubin then described Trump flipping through print-outs similar to those he awkwardly brandished outside his Manhattan criminal courtroom last week.

"These are all stories from legal experts saying how this is not a case," Trump said at the time. "The case is ridiculous."

Rubin posited Trump has specific plans for the peppy printouts he brings with him to court.

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why Trump’s Manhattan trial is the biggest threat to his freedom

"He seems to be flipping through them with a goal of sort of taking the best and adding them to his Truth Social account," Rubin said. "Although we can't see what's in his stack, you can imagine sort of that some of those things that he's been handed and in his social media posts and/or even in campaign emails later in the day."

The two tactics present a win-win, Rubin concluded.

"There is a political purpose there," Rubin said, "As well as a legal purpose, in keeping him awake."

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Who will change Trump's diapers when the need arises?

 

So Steven Spielberg is 'directing' Joe Biden's story: In the past several months, Spielberg has attended multiple strategy sessions, offering his insights on how best to tell the president’s story.



It's too much to hope for that Biden is a soldier shot in the head on Omaha Beach...

 

Another way we can see Trump's literal and clinical mental illness on clear display is he still can't grasp he is sitting in a court of law. Doesn't everyone know that trying to contact a witness in any way going to the stand. while on the stand, or leaving the stand is something the judge can immediately cite as contempt of court and slap their ass in jail right then. But Trump simply cannot grasp he is in a court of law with very strict rules.

Luckily for Trump though Graff did not even acknowledge him. Because she does know where she's at.


Trump's courtroom interaction with former assistant leads to 'shock' and 'murmurs'

Sarah K. Burris
April 26, 2024 4:16PM 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)




Donald Trump's former assistant, Rhona Graff, appeared on the stand briefly on Friday. But it was when she left that the courtroom gasped.

Newsweek reporter Katherine Fung posted on X, "After a very short testimony, Trump attempts to greet Graff as she leaves, the move appears to shock the courtroom, where murmurs are heard. Jurors were still in the box at this moment."

USA Today's Aysha Bagchi also observed Trump whisper something to Graff, but she purportedly couldn't hear what it was.

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Graff was there by subpoena for the prosecution, but her lawyers continue to be funded by the Trump Organization. She no longer works for the company, but she is also not working anywhere else, according to various reports.

She and Trump appeared to be still on good terms based on her compliments for him from the stand.

Former National Enquirer/AMI chief David Pecker was the witness over the course of the week, but Graff's testimony was quick, lasting about an hour.

After Graff's testimony, Michael Cohen's banker, Gary Farro, took the stand to talk about the bank account set up for the funds sent to Stormy Daniels.


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-trial-assistant-interaction/

 

Oh bullshit!
Careful up there on your high moral ground, american hater. It's a long way to the bottom if you slip.
Court is serious business, but the business of law can be hilarious. This is longer than Shooter normally likes to post, but watch as much as you want, or not.
The first trial is a hoot, it runs 6 minutes or so.
Court can be a real comedy show even as they take care of business.

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And now as some say the rest of the story.

Trump farting in court is not somersetting the press would report on. But its gotten so bad his legal team is suffering and the smell is traveling long distances. So its getting really hard to ignore the last taboo.



Trump, flatulence and the last taboo

John Stoehr
April 28, 2024 7:57AM ET




President Donald Trump. (AFP / Mandel Ngan)




As I was telling you, I haven’t been paying much attention to Donald Trump’s trial. I should, but I haven’t. In that, I’m probably like most people. If he’s found guilty, he’s found guilty. Everything else is noise.

But there are related aspects of the trial that stand out to me. I mentioned one yesterday: his weird call out to supporters to “protest” more. Another is Trump’s continued attempt to sound like a tough guy even as he whines like a child. This week, he complained about being “locked up” in a courtroom while Joe Biden is on the campaign trail.

“This trial is all Biden, just in case anybody has any question. They’re keeping me in a courtroom, that’s freezing by the way, in a courtroom all day long, while he’s out campaigning. That’s probably an advantage, because he can’t campaign. Nobody knows what he’s doing. He can’t put two sentences together. But he’s out campaigning and I’m here in a courtroom … sitting up as straight as I can all day long, because you know what? It’s a very unfair situation. We’re locked up in a courtroom and this guy’s out there campaigning, if you call it a campaign.”

You might ask: Why does this stand out, John? Donald Trump says this kind of pap all the time. To which I would say: Indeed, you are right! He has created for himself, and anyone who wishes to mimic him, an idiosyncratic vocabulary by which he manages to credibly sound manly as well as childish at the same time, somehow without one overwriting the other. Under ordinary circumstances, this is old news. But these are not ordinary circumstances. A former president is standing trial.

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And this former president – who is masterful at blending boyish weakness (the courtroom is “freezing”; equal justice is “very unfair”) and manly aggression (“no one knows what Biden is doing”; he “can’t put two sentences together”) – is doing something amid these extraordinary circumstances that makes old news new again.

He’s farting.

I know. Everyone experiences the occasional fit of flatulence. Yes, I know. It’s impolite to mention when someone does. But are there any remaining taboos? The Washington press corps looked away while Franklin Roosevelt rolled by in his wheelchair. Reporters were mum about John Kennedy’s dalliances. But such restraint ended with Bill Clinton. After blowj--s (sorry), there’s really no going back, is there?

Maybe flatus is the last taboo. Even so, as some have already said, it’s still a health concern. The public is entitled to know the well-being of presidents and presidential candidates. (Kevin O’Connor, the physician to the president, released Joe Biden’s health summary in February. Bottomline: he’s in good shape.) If Trump is falling asleep in court, and if he’s “passing gas” and “his lawyers are really struggling with the smell,” that could be an indication of something, well, not good. Yes, the subject is gossipy and potentially puerile, but it’s no less newsworthy.

But there’s a better reason why something so common that everyone experiences it is newsworthy. Trump holds himself above everyone. Just ask him. He’s beyond common. He has “good genes.” Because of them, he’s super-rich and super-awesome and, basically, superhuman. This “greatness” – or this impunity for the universal rule of human frailty – undergirds the “Trump mystique.” He’s more god than man.

A god who farts.

So far, reporters haven’t covered Trump’s health condition in any serious way. Perhaps it’s the final taboo. Perhaps it just feels mean to mention it. Indeed, it would be – if Trump himself did not provide what journalists call a “news peg.” Every time he picks on Biden, he invites scrutiny of his own flaws. If you’re going to make a habit of insulting the president by calling him “Sleepy Joe” – just one of hundreds of Trump’s insults and accusations – you forfeit whatever deference to etiquette you previously enjoyed. If there’s one more taboo, Trump himself has removed it. It was his choice, not the press corps’.

Trump’s trial is getting all the attention, as it should. This is a historic moment. Will it lead to justice? I’m not so sure. Trump may well prove to be untouchable and above the law. He’s not above being human, though. This week, he proved it. If nothing else is newsworthy, that is.

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