We know that Trump is facing several other criminal
cases and other jurisdictions, but this trial
may be the only one that goes,
you know, to completion
before the 2024 presidential election.
Trump has gone back and forth between being
seeming interested in the proceedings and what's happening.
He'll you'll see him like crane his neck to get
a better view at some of the jurors.
During the Voidere questioning. You see him
react in real time to
potential jurors getting up there and saying for the whole
courtroom that they don't agree with Donald
Trump's policies when he was president or they have this
or that opinion.
And
although that said, he did really appear to enjoy hearing
when a couple of the jurists admitted that they'd read
his books
or that they were fans of The Apprentice.
This is political persecution. This is a persecution like never
before.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
And again, it's a case that should have never
been brought. It's an assault on
America. There was no murder here.
There was nothing. There was somebody in the accounting department
at the Trump Organization while the president was
sitting in the Oval Office that booked a legal issue
as a legal issue in the accounting record.
We are going to continue
our fight against this judge.
We think he's totally conflicted.
He's a conflicted judge. As you know,
we're in appeal.
There's never been a judge
more conflicted than this one.
So we'll see how that all works out.
We've also seen him, you know,
with his eyes closed and we can't tell for sure
if he is actually
dozing off in those moments,
but he does. His eyes closed,
his head kind of dips down and then he'll kind
of jerk himself back up.
There were murmurings kind of in the courtroom when he
was closing his eyes,
people saying is he asleep?
Is he just closing his eyes?
Is he looking down, like because sometimes you see him
looked out on a piece of paper.
He's got his lap and he's his eyes are pretty
drawn shut and he was definitely closing his eyes.
Whether he was asleep, I don't know.
I also so don't know if he was doing it
the second day more for show.
We're supposed to hear from
some of the the key figures in the case.
So people like Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels.
Michael Cohen will be a big witness
because he was the one who
arranged the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels,
the adult film star who says that she has had
an affair with Trump,
which he denies.
The thing. The big issue was,
and we'll hear a lot about
this Access Hollywood tape, it was
a big moment for Donald Trump's campaign.
We he had fellow Republicans calling for him to drop
out,
calling for him to, yeah,
step aside and just let Mike Pence be
the GOP presidential candidate. His
sort of whole fate was kind of uncertain.
And so the prosecution is going to,
they're not allowed to play the Access Hollywood tape,
but they are allowed to describe it.
And so they're going to,
I think, talk a lot about that
and how just how much pressure Donald Trump and his
campaign were under
and how that led them to.
Because they hadn't made a decision about the the Stormy
Daniels payment
until that happened. They pulled the trigger on it
after and they allegedly covered it off.