77-Year-Old Man Is Dozing Off in Court & His Supporters Think It’s a Masterful Gambit
The former president is on trial for allegedly making illegal hush money payments to sex workers while on the campaign trail in 2016, and the inventor of the "Sleepy Joe" moniker can't seem to stay awake himself.
Politics
This week saw the beginning of former President Trump’s criminal trial for illegal hush money payments he allegedly made to adult film stars Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal on the campaign trail in 2016. And according to several reporters present in the courtroom, Trump—who ironically coined the moniker “Sleepy Joe” to attack President Biden—had trouble staying awake. On Monday morning, the New York Times‘ Maggie Haberman reported, “Even as a judge was hearing arguments on last-minute issues in a criminal case that centers on salacious allegations and threatens to upend his bid for the presidency, Mr. Trump appeared to nod off a few times, his mouth going slack and his head drooping onto his chest.” Trump nodded awake after his lead lawyer, Todd Blanche, “passed him notes for several minutes before Mr. Trump appeared to jolt awake and notice them.”
Then on Tuesday morning, Law360 journalist Frank G. Runyeon very colorfully reported, “Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”