after 22 witnesses and 16 days of testimony, donald trump has become the first ever american president to be convicted of a crime. this trial will go down in history. but without cameras in the courtroom, americans did not get to see the evidence for themselves. they did not see his eyes closed while he sat slumped at the defense table. they didn t get to hear stormy daniels testimony and they didn t get to watch the judge clear the courtroom in anger as he butted heads with a truculent witness. instead, americans had to rely on the words of reporters who were in the room making notes and writing down things we saw and experienced. things that a transcript cannot capture. that was something to behold. i could hear people gasping. i was not sure we were going to get a place where we had any guilty verdicts let alone all 34 accounts. todd blanche said he was writing checks from the white house. this was as professional a jury as you could get. what you ve heard about i
the only difference is the judge and jury are in the overflow. that room holds other members of the media and members of the public. and the overflow room has a very large monitor at the front of it that shows directly counsels table. you have the prosecution on one side and the defense on the other side. but you very clearly see donald trump. it was likeyou can go to the restroom a . whenever you want. and there is this absence of tension in the overflow room that i did not know i was feeling in the courtroom until i was not in the courtroom. and it s almost like you re standing in the street with wind and then it stops. it s a very different sensation in what seems to be the same place. the day before tommy tuberville went to the trial and said it was the most depressing building he d ever