On the same day, the Washington Post, MSNBC, and other lefty news outlets offered pieces about how diminished Donald Trump looks tethered to a New York courtroom, even though he faces charges that make no legal sense.
When the stories were done on the tick-tock of the case, the left gloried how Trump was locked up in a courtroom and couldn't do what he wanted to do—like campaign.
We got stories about how the "slump-shouldered" former president looked "old, tired, and mad," as MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow put it. Trump is six feet three inches, sitting at a table made for the average person. Perhaps that explains the slumping? Maddow, who finagled a seat at the trial on Tuesday, said, “I would say he seems thinner than I’ve seen him in the past."
She marveled at him taking notes when his attorney also took them and looked forward with glee to the rest of the trial.
Maddow told the panel of hosts that Trump looked more "annoyed, resigned, or angry even." They don't explain why a candidate for president might be annoyed why he's sitting in a courtroom rather than out campaigning for president. Weird, that.
She did allow that, "It is striking to see the former president, somebody who has tried to embody the luxury brand, sitting in a room that essentially feels like a high-ceiling DMV office." She gloated that Donald Trump was taken down a peg or two from his Trump Tower penthouse to the DMV.
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post wrote a piece entitled "Trump was going to dominate the courtroom. Instead, he is shrinking." Then she gloried, "How wrong they were."
"When the criminal trial actually began, reality hit home," she said. "Rather than dominate the proceedings or leverage his court appearance to appear in control and demonstrate no court could corral him," she said, "Trump day by day has become smaller, more decrepit and, frankly, somewhat pathetic."
The heaps of choreographed schadenfreude kept coming.
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The New Yorker reported that Trump was also furious about New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reporting that he'd been sleeping when he presumably believed he was not.
In a story entitled "Trump Is Furious He Got Caught Sleeping in Court," the New Yorker reported Trump was angry that reporters said he was sleeping when he closed his eyes during jury selection. No word about the indefatigability of a guy who's 77. Well, at least now we know when the guy sleeps. Or do we? Remember the middle-of-the-night tweets during the 2016 and his presidency? The appearances from morning till late at night at rallies —sometimes three a night?
Haberman was the most prominent journalist to cover Trump’s courtroom naps, but several other reporters backed up her observation. And if Trump was so deeply upset by the accusation, he probably should have channeled that energy into staying awake; multiple journalists saw him sleeping in court two more times last week.
The “Sleepy Don” narrative isn’t the only thing sending Trump over the edge. Rolling Stone reported that he’s also upset about late-night hosts joking about the trial (which explains last week’s incoherent Truth Social rant about Jimmy Kimmel) and how he’s been portrayed by courtroom sketch artists...
Rolling Stone noted that Trump was upset about the late-night hosts making fun of him, as if that were a new thing.
And, yes, Rachel, tell us about those crack DAs who brought the charges that former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy described as "nonsensical."
The problem that Democrats and their note-takers have, the problem that the elected progressive Democratic prosecutor Alvin Bragg has, is that what they want to accuse Trump of is not a crime.
Yes, of course, Bragg has indicted Trump for a nonsensical business-records falsification offense — a mere misdemeanor that he has abusively tried to inflate into 34 felonies. But that’s not what he and Democrats are really alleging.
What they want to say, instead, is that Trump stole the 2016 election. Only they can’t do that. After all, that would make them election deniers — just like Trump.
I figured this coverage was the typical media hivemind, but then I learned about the JournoList 2.0 group for legal commentators in which they get together to decide how to talk about this dog of a case and his other lawsuits and try to manipulate public opinion. The klaxons sounded inside my head. I wrote a piece about it nearby. Read it. You'll never guess who's a part of this group.
Before the trial started on Thursday morning, Trump visited a construction site to talk to the guys. They started screaming, "USA! USA!" and "We love Trump!"
WATCH: Trump surprise early morning visit with Teamsters and construction workers 48th St. and Park Ave NYC
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) April 25, 2024
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That ought to keep him awake.
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