Trump's Day On The Stand Is Bad, Very Bad
Let's go straight to the tape, ladies and gentlemen:
REPORTER: Trump, how's it going in there?
BOLDUAN: All right, so Donald Trump there making that motion, zipping his lips, not speaking, which is interesting in and of itself, given the tension that has been taking place inside that courtroom between Donald Trump saying things that the judge, in this case, thinks are out of line. He's been on the stand for about an hour now.
BERMAN: They have been taking breaks around this time of day.
BOLDUAN: They have. That is true. They've been really kind of brief breaks. But since we've seen in the past, the past week, they take they've been taking some length of a break between 11 and 1130.
But you know, we don't know the motivation of this break. But let's get to Kaitlan Collins, who is on the courthouse steps.COLLINS: I think this has gone about as poorly as it could potentially go. I mean, no one thought this was going to go well with Donald Trump on the stand. But the fact that they have just taken a break and they are less than an hour into this testimony and the judge has repeatedly admonished Trump and just threatened to remove him from the witness stand and said that he would draw every negative inference that he could. That's not good.
That would essentially be Trump not appearing or taking the Fifth, because the judge's discretion here is quite high in making the determination.