A pool reporter in the courtroom noted that "when the defense is introduced to the potential jurors seated in the audience, Trump does not stand up like his legal team does to turn and face them." My friend and former Chicago federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti, now a criminal defense lawyer, pointed out that this is the most basic thing defense lawyers instruct their clients to do—they tell them to rise along with everyone else in the courtroom to show respect for the people who will decide their fate. I have never seen a defendant fail to stand up every time the jury entered or left the courtroom.
Joyce Vance
Either he's awake all night fretting and xitting so that he's unable to stay awake, or they've got him on downers to keep him calm. Or maybe both.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 01:00 pm:
Oh my. This isn't the first we've heard about Trump's smell.
[Adam] Kinzinger, a vocal critic of Mr Trump, took to his Twitter account this week to insinuate that the former president possesses a strong smell.
“I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor,” Mr Kinzinger wrote earlier this week.
“It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can,” he added.
UK Independent
"The best way to describe it... take armpits, ketchup, a butt and makeup and put that all in a blender and bottle that as a cologne,” he said.
UK Independent
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