Odonnell, the msnbc host, as he did. They reported that same, this way. As he exits, trump turns his head at lawrence, flowers, and mutters under his breath. I was sitting right next to him , next to me. Its my first time in The Trump Trial courtroom, and it seems donald trump was not pleased to see me. It looks like im very far behind donald trump but i am actually in the first row available to the press. Visually, there was nothing between donald trump and me. In the afternoon, i was sitting in another spot and i have my interpretation of what Donald Trumps face and eyes were trying to say to me and what drove him to create a moment that was worthy of a New York Times reporter. What was actually captured in a sketch by the brilliant Courtroom Artist, who will join us at the end of the hour to share what the artist i finds in looking around the trump courtroom, especially at donald trump. She has been in all of The Trump Trials and has seen more of his behavior as a defendant and possibly anyone else and she has never seen anything like what she saw on donald trump, as he was walking out of that courtroom today and looked at me. These were her words. He went full joker on you. That is a much better description than i could come up with. She will show us her instant sketch of the flash bang with me at the end of the hour. He should not have done it, of course, donald trump should not have drawn attention to me. Donald trumps political handymen were there, in the front row reserved for trumps family members, who did not show up, again. Of course, he was right in front of me and knew that i was there. He should have told donald trump, if you walk by odonnell, dont give him the satisfaction of a moment, but defendants like donald trump always make mistakes in courtrooms. Mistakes are what has landed donald trump in criminal court. Manhattans criminal courtrooms, and this is a room of broken lives. It has seen an endless parade of the broken lives lived by people who have made the worst mistake in their lives, that leaves them sitting in the defendants chair in that room. Other than the falsely accused, very bad mistakes, often the series, lead to criminal courtrooms. Donald trump was not the only broken life in that room, on display, today. The broken man sitting beside him, at the defense table, rose, once again, to defend the indefensible. They have, at one point or another, told me that this is an excellent lawyer. Some of the people told me that months ago and have now switched to the past tense. They say he was an excellent lawyer, before he sold his professional soul to donald trump. Todd blanche was a much respected, highly paid partner in a prestigious Manhattan Law Firm and served as a criminal prosecutor. He could have stayed in that partnership and that law firm for the rest of his professional life. He could have been well regarded for the rest of his professional life and in bed, he took on donald trump as a client and had to quit his law firm because the law firm wanted no association with donald trump, and having quit his law firm, he moved his family to florida to become a fulltime Trump Defense lawyer, working for exactly one client. There is no good story in the history of jurisdiction about a criminal Defense Lawyer who decides to work for only one client. A client, who has enough criminal and Legal Business to keep that lawyer employed for years and years and years, even Mafia Lawyers have had many other clients not in organized crime. In criminal courtroom 1530, todd blanche, last week, suffered the ultimate professional humiliation when judge merchan said to him, you are losing all credibility with the court. You can spend a lifetime in courtrooms and never hear a judge say that to a good lawyer, never. Todays Court Session began with what was scheduled as a half hour hearing about Donald Trumps latest violations of judge merchans gag order. The prosecution presented four new violations in a 10 minute, tight, logical, seemingly irrefutable presentation. The worst of the violations was Donald Trumps comment about the jury. The prosecutor read that to the judge as the first item he raised. That jury was pick so fast, 95 democrats. The area is mostly all democrat. You think of it as a, just a purely democrat area. It is a very unfair situation, that i can tell you. Trump said that. The prosecution cited other Gag Order Violations that prevent donald trump for making comments about witnesses did the cited comments about michael and david pecker. When todd blanche stood up to defend Donald Trumps violations of the gag order, he ran on without making a single legal point, for 20 minutes, and never said a word about the most serious violation, Donald Trumps attack on the jury. Todd blanche is trying to defend Donald Trumps comment about witnesses and said, he cant just say no comment repeatedly when he is running for president. That is, of course, alive. Thats a lawyer telling a lie in a courtroom. Its not just a point of argument. Candidates refused to comment on issues all the time and no one does it more than donald trump did donald trump very specifically refused to declare his position on abortion for months, during the president ial primaries. No politician in our history has refused to answer more questions than donald trump, while his mouth is still moving, saying other things in response to a question, usually nonsense and lies having nothing to do with the question. Just to sink todd blanche even deeper into the darkness of his professional life, donald trump himself proved that todd blanche was lying at the end of the day. After donald trump walked past me, into the hallway, he spoke to a pool of reporters with cameras rolling. The last question asked of him was, what did he think of the witness who took up most of the trial today, Keith Davidson . Donald trump said, im not allowed to testify. Im under a gag order, i guess i cant testify. I would love to answer that question, its a very easy question, the easiest question so far, but im not allowed to testify because this judge is conflicted and has me under an unconstitutional gag order. Those were his words. Of course, hes not a master of the english language, he did mean that he cant testify, he said simply that he couldnt answer the question because he is under a gag order. Todd blanche learned nothing today in the courtroom but trumpeted. He learned from that hearing how to respond to a question about witnesses in this case, which is to not answer it at all and, if he wants to, site his gag order, which is exactly what he did at the end of the day. His response in the hallway today directly contradicted todd blanche , directly destroyed todd blanches credibility, and again, in the principal argument in the defense of his violations of the gag order, were somewhat weak after the judge tells todd blanche hes lost that ability. How can it get worse for todd blanche . Donald trump found a way to make it worse today. Donald trump went out in the hallway at the end of the day and in effect, ridiculed todd blanches defense of his own violations of the gag order. Apparently, todd blanche had no intention of even addressing the worst violation of the gag order presented by the prosecutors , which were Donald Trumps comments and attacks against the jury, who he accuses of being 95 democrat even though we have no idea how many of them might be democrat or republican. 12 may have voted for donald trump. Judge merchan is not an inpatient judge. There are some who could accuse him of being too patient, like this morning, he let todd blanche say nothing for over 20 minutes today, before the judge finally had to interrupt him and say, can i ask you to address the comments that were made about the jury . Todd blanche began with the stupidest possible response about the actual words donald trump said. Donald trump told the judge, it was a 15 second statement out of an interview that was over 21 minutes long. It doesnt matter if the interview were five days long, what matters is what donald trump said. Did he violate the gag order . The judge repeatedly had to ask todd blanche, did he violate the gag order . Todd blanche actually said, the gag order specifically references any prospective juror or any juror in his criminal proceeding. So, he wasnt referencing juror number four as a democrat or you could see the judge give up on todd blanche. He shook his head, the judge shook his head, smiled in a strained way, just a little. I silently laughed at the preposterous thing todd blanche just said. It was the most preposterous possible answer todd blanche could have given. He wasnt talking about juror four. You cannot find that reaction in the script, the reaction of the room, the judges physical reaction to what he heard todd blanche say. The transcript is just words and there is so much that happens in that room beyond the words. In presenting this violation, the prosecutor said he used his platform there to criticize the seated jury in this case. There is no inference needed. It is not just any jurors, it is these jurors, in this case, sitting right in this room in a few minutes. Todd blanche , his disgraceful and guaranteed to lose defense of that violation of the gag order is to actually say, donald trump didnt specify any one of the jurors. No, he didnt, he specified every one of the jurors, every one of them. Everyone who filed into the room at the end of that hearing and passed by donald trump, as fast as they could, without looking at him in any way, as if there were an obstacle there that they had to speed past, something dangerous. I have never seen a faster walk injury in my life, a jury who walks in, to get past that defendant, to get that move past the defendant over and done with as fast as they can. Its not unusual for some jurors to take in the room when they enter, in other cases. Their eyes sometimes fall on the prosecutor, often on the judge, sometimes on the defendant, smile at the judge, sometimes there can be small smiles that are flashed around the room, they dont really tell you anything about what they are thinking, but often just show you that this group of people are entering the room with hints of their humanity. Not so, with the trump jury, when they entered. When they take their places in the jury box, which i had a full view of in the afternoon, they settle into their roles and all pay very strict attention, at all times, to what is happening in that room. It does not seem that anyone have likely complained about freezing in the courtroom, as donald trump has done relentlessly, including one of the middleaged jurors who is wearing nothing but a tshirt, all day. That is how freezing it was not in the courtroom. As a defendant in the courtroom, every moment, it must be chilling. Certainly, it is for donald trump. Donald trump spent most of his day speaking to someone he has never met, the third broken life on display, Keith Davidson, the lawyer who even todd blanche had looked down on. Keith davidson testimony revealed that he makes much, or most of his living as a Bottom Feeder in a cesspool with no law schools that has ever aspired to. It was Keith Davidson who negotiated the has many payment to Stormy Daniels to guarantee her silence about her, according to her, one brief sexual encounter with donald trump. That testimony negotiated the 130,000 deal, with documented, email records, text messages, and voice recordings. There is no reasonable doubt left that Keith Davidson, about Keith Davidson, negotiating that deal on behalf of Stormy Daniels with Michael Cohen. Thats the essence of his testimony. That is why he is a witness, but, when your life goes so far off course that you find yourself negotiating Hush Money Payments For Adult Film Stars of president ial candidates so that you can help hide the truth about that candidate from voters, for a fee of 10,000 that you earn from that transaction, it might not be the only unseemly thing youve been involved with in your life. So, on crossexamination, to trumps the light, sure, Donald Trumps other criminal Defense Lawyer tried to expose Keith Davidsons role in trying to arrange hush money payments, in one case, allegedly for as much as 2 million, for other famous men, including hulk hogan and charlie sheen. Keith davidson was also involved in Trafficking Information about the treatment of Lindsay Lohan in a rehab facility. This testimony, from this person , who has the lead his law career, took place in a building filled with honorable lawyers working for government salaries, for Public Defender wages, who, every day, make the law and noble calling. Every courthouse has the other kind of lawyer, the worst kind of lawyer, passing to the courthouse, every day. With every bit of dirt that Keith Davidson revealed about himself and every bit of dirt that was thrown at him by Donald Trumps lawyer, what really mattered in that moment is that the oldest person in the room, sitting under a crown of blonde hair at the defense table, lived his life in such a way that his future was in the hands of Keith Davidson, in october of 2016, when he was asking the people of United States of america to make him the next president. I was sitting in the front row of the reporter section, which is actually the third row of spectators since the first two are reserved for Secret Service, then the nonexistent trump family, and then the third row, for the afternoon, there was nothing. Nothing between me and the back of Donald Trumps head. That very same seat was occupied last week by a brilliant author who wrote, at some length, for the Washington Monthly about his day of contemplation staring at the back of his head, the meticulously coiffed souffli. What you see under the hair in that courtroom is a very, very small man. Donald trump is actually the tallest person in the courtroom , an inch taller than i am, but when hes finished chair, he does it with the common slump of the elderly. He sinks. His 77yearold back bone shrinks to the point where he is sitting as the shortest man at the defense table, and he sits, for the first time in his life, as a little man in confinement. There are many people in america hoping donald trump goes to jail. There may be just as many or almost as many hoping he does not. For those who Hope Donald Trump goes to jail, you can put a side some of that hope, now, because courtroom 1530, from 9 00 to 4 30 p. M. , is Donald Trumps jail. Its the first time in his life that he is not allowed to leave the room whenever he wants to. Its the first time in his life that he does not get to decide when to enter. Its the first time in his life that he does not get to decide what to say. 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