Dark and Stormy Thoughts
Trump New York Trial Diary, Entry #14
Good Evening:
Our latest Trump’s Trials and Tribulations livestream is out:
Our latest written dispatch, this one covering—among other things—the first day of the Stormy Daniels’s testimony, is also out. It opens:
It's 9:23 a.m., and Donald J. Trump has taken his seat at the defense table. It's a red tie day today. It’s also a radiantly blue suit day.
Trump is flanked by Todd Blanche, who has an arm around the former president as he whispers something into his ear, his hand cupped in front of his mouth. Co-counsels Emil Bove and Susan Necheles stand nearby, unpacking documents onto the defense table.
Across the aisle, the prosecutors install themselves. From right to left, facing the judge, we have Susan Hoffinger, Matthew Colangelo, and Joshua Steinglass. Christopher Conroy sits just behind them.
In the defendant’s friends and family row, Boris Epshteyn is here again. He strolled in a few minutes after Trump.
The clock strikes 9:28 a.m., and our ever-punctual Justice Juan Merchan sweeps in, resplendent in his robes, judicial authority radiating from his very being. All rise as he does so, for so the crowd is instructed.
In the press overflow room, a high schooler—here as part of a school field trip to the trial—stands as well. He quickly sits down again when he realizes no one else in the press room has joined him. Being the only person in a courtroom who stands for a judge on a television monitor because someone in a different courtroom calls out “All Rise!” is the kind of thing that traumatizes high school students. It’s the kind of emotional injury from which not everyone recovers. This student has all of our thoughts and prayers.
Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is also out and it is this fine lady, who knows how to travel in style:
Trump Trial Diary, May 9, 2024
It’s going to be a long couple of days. This morning begins in court, where Stormy Daniels just walked in and will continue testifying. I will dash out after a couple of hours, however, to fly up to Boston, where I will be giving a speech this evening at the Tavern Club, thanks to the estimable R.J. Lyman. Then bedding down at an airport hotel tonight for a very early morning flight back to New York for court tomorrow morning. Then tomorrow’s livestream. Then the Amtrak home for the weekend.
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