2024-04-17 06:01:41
He makes no secret of it: he would give a lot to be somewhere else. Through his gestures, his attitude and even more through his words, Donald Trump expresses his discomfort and the confusion he had when he was judged by a court in New York.
In a blue suit and shirt, with a striped tie of the same color, with a stern expression, he quickly took his place on Tuesday, behind a large wooden table, for the second day of his criminal trial – unprecedented for a former American. president
After brief exchanges with his lawyers, he only seemed to relent when he faced the lenses of the photographers who came to shoot him before the start of the hearing.
“I should now be in Pennsylvania and Florida, in many other states, in North Carolina, in Georgia, campaigning,” said the Republican candidate for the November election angrily when he arrived at the Manhattan court, again denying “that trial should never have existed”.
The day before, he criticized Judge Juan Merchan, who demanded to be present at all the hearings (ie four days a week), for not exempting him from the beginning to attend his son’s graduation or a hearing related to him at follow the Supreme Court. the United States next week.
On this day dedicated exclusively to the constitution of a jury of 12 New York residents who will decide his fate, Donald Trump turns his head towards the jury box on his right to scrutinize them one by one.
The silence is reduced de facto, it does not show any particular emotion and sometimes it is bored, even disappearing, in the face of this parade of anonymous citizens who are repeated, part of New York society, who thrown into this suspenseful legal soap opera.
The former Republican president is being prosecuted for payments intended to buy the silence of former porn star Stormy Daniels, a few days before the 2016 election that he narrowly won against the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Everyone has to answer out loud a long questionnaire about their professional and family circumstances, their hobbies, their sources of information, but also their sympathy or prejudice towards the accused.
After a period of this largely passive attitude, Donald Trump began to more actively monitor the responses of potential jurors, looking at a printed copy of the questionnaire.
The real estate mogul finally comes to life when a potential juror answers the question in the affirmative: “Have you read one or more of the books written by the defendant?”, greeted with a smile and a nod of approval. . most famous work, “The Art of the Deal”.
After this first step, when prosecutor Joshua Steinglass asks the 12 preselected jurors if they feel they can convict him, he repeatedly nods in their direction.
Then, when the defense questions a juror about the meaning of the videos she posted on social networks, Donald Trump confronts her.
When the jury leaves, the judge calls Donald Trump’s lawyers, saying that the accused “mumbled” something and “was arguing” while she was speaking.
“I will not allow jurors to be intimidated in my court,” he tells them, urging them to stand down for their restless client.
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