has established an unusual courthouse ritual as he attends his New York hush money trial: He regularly addresses reporters with printouts of what appear to be news stories, and legal analysis that he cites, often invoking others talking about him.
Frequently, Trump leafs through his stack of papers in front of TV cameras, quoting mostly conservative legal commentators who have tried to discredit the case. And in typical Trumpian fashion he also regularly weaves in falsehoods and baseless claims, like when he said on May 14 to reporters thathad “weaponized the Department of Justice” against him in this trial.
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