NEW YORK (Reuters) -During a break in Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony on Thursday in a fraud trial that could handcuff his family's real-estate business, he had a request for the courtroom sketch artist: "Make me look sexy." When he was finished, Donald Jr., the first of four family members slated to testify, paused to banter with courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg, who was on assignment for Reuters. According to Rosenberg, Donald Trump's namesake son asked her to produce a portrait that could boost his romantic appeal.
put them up. see our courtroom sketch artist doing some remarkable artwork there because we couldn t have cameras inside. we couldn t have our cell phones. i at one point had to run back and forth to figure out what was going on. it was unexpected. as you correctly paraphrased there at the top, the judge was questioning the constitutionality of the diversion portion that allowed hunter biden to avoid prosecution for the gun issue while pleading guilty on the two tax misdemeanoring. it s interesting where things stand. she due chew down and reject the plea deal. she basically has asked both sides to take up to a month to brief her on how it is that they aarrived at this diversion portion of the agreement giving hunter biden immunity. we also learned a very interesting development.
he got his start in this unique line of work while still in graduate school. someone called a said we need an artist. is there anyone willing to go to a courtroom and draw? and i jumped at it because i needed to support my family. reporter: and it stuck as he fell in love with being not just an artist but a journalist, seeing the news worthy moments in each case and then sketch under fierce deadlines. you can do one of these in an hour or two? oh, less if need be. reporter: less? sometimes it s literally a few minutes. reporter: from celebrities who have gone to court like chris brown and roger clemons to the historic case of bush vs. gore. some people say you have a photographic memory. i do not. that moment sears itself briefly and i sketch as quickly as i can. reporter: the use of a courtroom sketch artist might seem like an old-fashioned notion, but these artists have a bright future ahead of them. allow cameras in federal courts in the u.s. supreou
you re right about losing that as a job. a thing that people need to be good at in our country. i remember one of the things we actually prepped when we talked about art leon today was during the trump impeachment, it was art lean, the courtroom sketch artist the train guy who actually caught the fact that senator richard burr wasn t wearing socks during the impeachment proceedings. and with every camera with all of the traditional impeachment proceedings, you had to take the courtroom sketch artist to notice something that potent. and specific. and factor that into the way he was drawing the proceeding. how are we going to keep people that good an eye on proceedings like this unless we re turning them up to be young art lien s. please, no one should misunderstand my position to be no cameras in federal courts so that we can have art for federal courts. it s just that not a bad argument. well, it s not a strong enough argument. it s just one of those things