Trump was unhinged during first week of hush money trial. He'll only get weirder.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rex Huppke, USA TODAY

For perhaps the first time in his life, Donald Trump had to spend a week shutting up.

There was one place he had to be – a Manhattan criminal courtroom – and he couldn’t come and go as he pleased. He couldn’t talk. He couldn’t send inflammatory social media posts from his phone.

He just had to sit there and listen as “the people of the state of New York vs. Donald J. Trump” began and jurors were selected to decide whether the former president falsified business records as part of a scheme to silence a former adult-film star and influence the 2016 presidential election.

Tough-guy Trump sure did a lot of bellyaching his first week on trial

Trump was clearly shocked to learn standing trial on criminal charges comes with certain inconveniences.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-unhinged-during-first-week-080041523.html

[kimbutgar]

1. Al Sharpton had the guy who wrote art of the deal Tony Schwartz on and he said he regrets writing that book

But he thinks TFA (the f’g a hole) will implode during this trial and lose it and will wake up some of supporters.

He said TFA has no self control and it will be a show to see him lose it as the stress mounts. I think his handlers wouldn’t let him go to his North Carolina rally yesterday because they were afraid he’d make his case worst by attacking the judge and threatening the jury.

[Irish_Dem]

5. I think this is the consensus.

Trump is going to act out even more.
He will get much worse before this is over.

I had the same thought.
Trump's minders or Trump himself put the breaks on the rally.
The minders were afraid of Trump would do there.

Or Trump is crashing and burning and couldn't get on the airplane.

[dutch777]

6. I hope they draw this out as long as possible and just keep him sitting there...true punishment for Donnie.

[Irish_Dem]

7. I had the same thought.

This is torture for someone like Trump.

He is getting punished just in the trial phase.

[agingdem]

2. My favorites...he didn't have a clue how jury selection works...

he thought his lawyers could strike potential jurors with abandon..so after 4 days a jury was seated and now he's appealing he can't get a fair trial because the jury hates his guts..the idiot is a gas-blowing moron...

[keithbvadu2]

3. No cell phone

[captain queeg]

4. On one hand I regret there are no cameras in the court room

It would certainly get the highest ratings (viewership) of his miserable life. Or at least some camera to catch the meltdown, but I think it’s for the best. Not having an audience will no doubt drive him crazy. All people will see are those sketches and read what reporters are saying.

[ShazzieB]

12. I would love to be able to watch this trial on TV, but...

...I'm afraid that it it was televised, I'd be so glued to it that I wouldn't be able to do anythimg else those 4 days of the week!

[Gore1FL]

8. I feel like a campaign to send air freshners to the defense lawyers might nudge him on his way to breakdown. nt

[speak easy]

9. "unhinged"?

Hate that word. Trump was never "hinged"in the first place.

[DemocraticPatriot]

10. He wasn't unhinged, YET... he was quiet, sleepy, weak and stinky

I think the "REAL show" starts on Monday....

[ShazzieB]

13. Yes, the Prosecution's opening statement alone will drive him straight up the nearest wall!

[chouchou]

11. I suspect, after last week...

..the judge is going to order a case of Industrial Air Freshener.

[ms liberty]

14. Things are about to get entertaining, err I mean, interesting.

[Warpy]

15. The IRS might be next in line on this one

If he did in fact deduct the payment to Cohen as a legal expense, the interest and penalty will make him scream in agony even if he doesn't go to prison for tax fraud.