“Donald Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts of what could be the dullest sounding crime in New York’s penal code: falsifying business records,” the New York Times reports.
“Yet, across nine witnesses and two weeks of testimony, jurors have been treated to hours of mesmerizing courtroom theater.”
“There was talk of a sex scandal with a porn star, a surreptitious recording of a future president and the tearful testimony of a former confidante in the glare of the witness stand. There was even a celebrity roll call: Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan and the reality television star Tila Tequila were all name-checked this week, drawing chuckles in the Lower Manhattan courtroom.”
“The phrase ‘falsifying business records,’ however, was not uttered to the jury during testimony. Not even once.”
Wall Street Journal: The delicate art of “shutting up” Donald Trump.
