| In Trump Trial Circus Line
Sitters Run the Line as Rulings
Rain Down and Pecker on Stand
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
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CENTRE ST COURT,
April 22 – The day of opening
arguments in the Trump trial,
the line started before dawn.
The area beside 111 Centre
Street was locked off; some
attributed it to increased
security after the
self-immolation in Collect
Pond Park on Friday.
There were
line-sitters, some of whom
became organizers of the
lines.
After the
sun came up, a group of
protests of decidedly middle
age showed up from the side of
the Housing Court building,
chanting about election
interference.
Some asked
online, Which side of they on?
Since both side now alleged
election interference by the
other.
Up in the
courtroom, Judge Merchan
became by ruling against Trump
on nearly every Sandoval
cross-examination issue, then
calling it a
compromise.
The opening
statement by the prosecutor
painted a Donald Trump reeling
from the leak of the Access
Hollywood tape, arranging to
pay Stormy Daniels $130,000
then doubling that to Michael
Cohen so he could pay
taxes.
Trump's
lawyer Todd Blanche said the
more than double payment to
Cohen showed it wasn't
reimbursement. He began to
call Cohen a liar until the
prosecutor objected, and
Merchan sustained it.
And then there
was Pecker...
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