The Trump Trial is Just Plain Weird
The sideshow we should have seen coming
I’ll admit, I skim the news when it comes to the ongoing trial because I don’t think it is changing much so far. There are a lot more relevant stories hidden in the boring numbers behind the polling, things like the apparent fact that Trump is not winning voters beyond his base.
But a few things about the trial have struck me. First, the Stormy Daniels testimony spent a lot of time on whether she and Trump had sex, whether it was consensual, and how boring it seemingly was. That’s all sort of titillating, though I do not need the image of Trump sitting in his underwear waiting for her on the bed. Ugh.
But none of this has anything to do with what he is accused of, which is falsifying business records to cover up his indiscretions for the purposes of election fraud. It doesn’t matter whether they actually had sex or the sordid details of whatever happened in that hotel room.
The questioning was stupid to say the least. Did they eat dinner in the room, at a restaurant, or at all? Completely irrelevant.
Then there was the defense questioning of Michael Cohen, which seemed to hit the ground with a dull thud. Trump’s attorney did what was expected in trying to paint Cohen as a liar and an unconvincing witness, but Cohen…
