Is it Dozy Don now? Social media is already pulsating over reports that Donald Trump appears to have fallen asleep on the first day of his criminal trial. ‘His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack’, says the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman. Oh boy. ‘72 hours until all hell breaks loose!’ declared Mr Trump in a fundraising email sent out on Friday. ‘Rabid Democrats are poised to make millions while I’m stuck defending myself in court.’ But it turns out that hell is fairly soporific.
You can’t blame poor old Trump. How is any 77-year-old man expected to sit through such a boring trial, even if it concerns him, and not nod off? We haven’t even got to the juror selection process, and already it’s been several hours. Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche and the prosecutor Joshua Steinglass have been busy trading procedural points with the judge, Justice Juan M.
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