Is Trump’s Campaign Effectively on Hold?
Two or more months of court appearances
The first day of Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan did not go well for the former President, the first to face a criminal trial.
He apparently fell asleep in court, nodding off and ignoring a note from his attorney. The man is seventy-seven years old, does not look healthy, and seems to get little sleep, based on his middle of the night postings on Truth Social. And he spent the weekend campaigning in friendly spots and made his usual cuckoo remarks, this time a rambling talk about the Battle of Gettysburg where he called it, among other things, ‘beautiful’ and horrible.
In that one day battle, a turning point, over 50,000 lives were lost. Not exactly beautiful by any standard.
We are only one day in and he is already having a hard time in court. And the judge has been very clear that missing a court day could send him to jail. He has to sit there four days a week, possibly for months.
Yesterday began jury selection, working their way through a pool of 500 jurors. Nearly fifty disqualified themselves immediately saying they could not be impartial. A dozen more went on to filling out a long questionnaire but none were selected. They need twelve jurors and six alternates, for a total,of eighteen.
