Jane Rosenberg/ReutersDonald Trump Jr. appeared to be so preoccupied with how he was depicted in court on Thursday that he approached a courtroom sketch artist, showed her an overly flattering sketch of Sam Bankman-Fried, and asked the artist to “make me look sexy.” “He said, ‘Did you see the one they made of Sam Bankman-Fried? It made him look like a superstar,’” Reuters’ sketch artist Jane Rosenberg recalled to Insider. However, the image he pulled up on his phone of Bankman-Fried was clearly
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