Trump trial updates: Prosecutors say Trump engaged in criminal conspiracy and a cover-up. Defense lawyers call it 'democracy.'
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Trump lawyer Habba calls reports he’s falling asleep in court ‘unlikely’
Alina Habba, an attorney and spokesperson for former President Trump, said in a Tuesday interview that it was “unlikely” that Trump fell asleep in the courtroom during the first two days of jury selection for his hush money case in Manhattan, despite reports indicating otherwise. “If anything, he's probably brutally bored,” Habba told Fox News’s
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'Are you missing my point?' Trump lawyer 'tests the judge's patience' at end of hearing
Donald Trump's attorneys keep getting on the bad side of the New York judge presiding over former president's criminal hush money trial. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan nearly browbeat Trump's attorney Emil Bove over what prosecutors alleged was a "totally improper line of questioning" regarding the cross-examination of former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker.Bove had been pricking Pecker, the 72-year-old who used to lord over The National Enquirer’s parent company, American...