| With Trump In
Court Juror 3 Calls in Sick
While Carroll Lawyer Pushes for
NH Primary Ending
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
LITERARY
SDNY,
Jan 22 – It was the day Trump
was supposed to testify - and
there on Pearl Street was the
motorcade, all parked in the
wrong direction, ready for the
escape.
Up on the
26th floor, however, the
courtroom stayed empty. In the
hall US Marshals manned the
metal detectors and court
staffers ran in and
out. Kurt
Wheelock stood by the
elevator, being friendly, not
pushing too hard for the
inside scoop.
"He's going in,"
he was told - and Trump walked
behind a phalanx of lawyers,
from the witness room through
the hall and into the
courtroom. It was one, or so
it seemed.
But it soon
emerged that COVID would pause
this trial, as it had so many
others. Juror 3 had not come
in, skipping out from the
pick-up point. He would have
to be tested for the virus.
And Alina Habba said she had
been exposed, via her parents.
That she still didn't wear a
mask spread like wildfire on
Threads.
Trump supporters
on the other hand, focused on
something that Carroll's
lawyer Robbie Kaplan said:
that she'd like the trial to
resume tomorrow, the day of
the New Hampshire primary, and
to end that day.
You might get what you want,
Judge Kaplan replied. And you
might not. Kurt Wheelock wrote
it up.
By late
afternoon, as Kurt covered
other cases, word came that
Tuesday too was canceled, and
the big day would be
Wednesday. Or would it be?
More on Substack
here
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