There was nowhere for him to go and nothing he could say; he was trapped.

[Bundbuster]

A silent Trump glowers and stares during third day of criminal trial. This was not Donald Trump the business mogul or Donald Trump the 45th president – it was Donald Trump the defendant

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/trump-third-day-jury-selection-criminal-trial

With Donald Trump just a few feet away, a potential juror in the criminal case against him summed up the experience in just three words. “This is bizarre,” she said, with just a slight hint of a seasoned New York accent.

Bizarre it was. There was a potential juror who once spent the night at one of Trump’s lawyers’ homes more than a decade ago (Trump’s team used one of its peremptory strikes to remove the juror). The microphones didn’t work. The proceedings had to start over when Judge Juan Merchan realized that a court reporter hadn’t been present first thing. And the temperature in the courthouse was so frigid that Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s lawyers, asked Merchan if it would be possible to turn up the temperature “just one degree”.

Trump was far from the comforts of the White House and Mar-a-Lago as he sat in the courtroom at 100 Centre Street. There was nowhere for him to go and nothing he could say; he was trapped. It was a stark reminder of the long slog Trump faces over the next two months or so as he faces 34 felony charges for falsifying business records.

When potential jurors, sitting just feet away, offered critical assessments of him and his presidency, the former president, who is known for his inability to let even the slightest insult go unanswered, sat in silence. As his lawyer Susan Necheles read old social media posts from a potential juror that were highly critical of Trump, he sat silently.

[mucifer]

1. I would not be surprised if trump ends up in a hospital for some sort of disease.

he is pretty old with all the stress and he can't sleep half the day.

[getagrip_already]

3. He isnt getting his regular aderol or diet coke fixes..

He also isn't getting his regular diet of snacks and junk food.

It has to be a stress on his system. Sudden changes of diet and meds can reak havoc on your digestion and body.

Poor buhbby. May he fall down and nap.

[LuvLoogie]

2. Poor guy

That sucks

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. Underneath it all he is a bigger pussy than

Giuliani!

[Bundbuster]

6. Underneath it all -

The bluster, the bloviating, the bragging, the fake bravado, the bullshit, the egomania, the cheating & evasion, the pampering, the narcissism, the tax & draft dodging, the cult adoration....

I've been waiting for this moment when he's stripped naked, showing that The Emperor Has No Clothes.

[unblock]

5. If only he could afford an extra layer of clothes to keep him warm

[magicarpet]

7. They should strip trDUMP naked,...

.... and put him in one of those plexiglass boxes at the very front of the courtroom, like theydo in Russia.

Then the he man alpha male could cry, shit himself, and have baby tantrums all day as the world watches the humiliation he is made to suffer.

His civil judgements could be entirely paid off and then some if this court case was put on a paid per view channel. $100.00/hour - pay per view.