PoliticsFriday 05.10.24

Donald Trump is freezing in the New York courtroom.

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Donald Trump is not happy that he’s freezing in the New York courtroom for his hush money criminal trial.

Several times over the past month, he’s complained about the temperature:

“We have another day of court in a freezing courthouse. It's very cold in there — on purpose, I believe.”

“I'll now go and sit in that freezing cold courtroom for eight or nine hours and think about being on the campaign.”

“They don't seem to be able to get the temperature up. It shouldn't be that complicated, though. We have a freezing courthouse, and that's fine. That's just fine.”

POLITICO said its reporter in the courtroom found the temperature to be mild, but noted it was frigid during the trial’s first week, when several people, including Trump lawyer Susan Necheles, to had to wear their winter coats inside.

Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York as part of a hush money scheme to bury stories of alleged extramarital affairs that he feared could hurt his presidential campaign in 2016. He is the first former president to ever stand trial on criminal charges.

Recount Wire

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