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Get this man a binky! https://t.co/UVbiQLTdaO

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 30, 2024

Trump: So I'm going to go into this trial. I'm going to sit in a freezing cold ice box for eight hours, nine hours or so. pic.twitter.com/vmAUOFkFXf

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 30, 2024

So I was listening to MSNBC start reporting on the trial this morning sometime after 9 CDT (Acyn's time stamp is 8:26, which could be consistent with his PDT location), which would have been 10 EDT. I'm pretty sure the court starts its day around 10:00/10:30, takes a lunch break (an hour, I'd guess), and he's outside complaining at 4:30 EDT.  So about 5 hours in court, and he slept through a lot of that.

"Sleeping... I would say they've tried a number of different devices to keep Trump awake."

WATCH: @lawofruby describes Trump's behavior inside the court room today. pic.twitter.com/1JtALqtQnM

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 30, 2024

And it's a small thing in the grand scheme, but Trump is part of the reason the court is taking so much time in some matters:

Each of them were here solely to authenticate excerpts from videos of Trump speaking, one group aired on C-SPAN (which is entrusted to air live proceedings of Congress) and the other from Trump’s own Oct. 2022 deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case. 3/

— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) April 30, 2024

This is what I mentioned this morning before I went outside to do real work (well, gardening, planting, potting, etc.)

When video excerpts of this deposition were shown at Carroll’s two trials, there was no dispute about their authenticity. And yet now, in a third proceeding, Team Trump has forced a jury to sit through testimony about why the video and the accompanying transcript are authentic.

— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) April 30, 2024

Now we can see: Part of what is preventing Trump from the rallies he prefers are moves like this (instead of agreeing that reliable memorializations are, in fact, the defendant’s own words).

— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) April 30, 2024

Trump is like a anti-Paklid (from ST:NG): He thinks he is smart, because he does not make things go. He thinks fighting every inch of ground is clever, when it's just a waste of time, money, and jury attention. Prosecutors have ways of making sure the jury knows why they have to go through this tedious confirmation of evidence. And the more Trump does it, the more the jury will catch on to why it is being done. 

Trump wants his lawyers to fight more.  This is what he gets for his truculence.

Trump is smart. He shoots his own foot off.

He can't tell time, either.